Record sleeve
Chalkie Davies (b.1955)
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
Aug 1979 - 19 Oct 1979
Materials
Cardboard record sleeve
Measurements
310 x 315 mm
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672660.2
Summary
A cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the self titled album by The Specials. The sleeve features photographs taken by Chalkie Davies and Carol Starr, with the front cover featuring a black and white image on a white background of the seven band members standing and looking forwards (clockwise from the front left: Horace Panter, Neville Staple, Roddie Byers, John Bradbury, Lynval Golding, Jerry Dammers and Terry Hall). A list of the song titles on the record is printed in black down the right hand edge of the front with a 2 Tone Records logo in the bottom right corner. The rear of the sleeve has a black and white image of the seven band members standing and looking to the left with their first names and the instruments they play printed below in white (left to right: Panter, Hall, Staple, Dammers, Byers, Golding and Bradbury). There is a 2 Tone logo in the top left corner and the records catalogue number (CDL TT5001) is printed in the top right corner. The bands name and catalogue number are also printed on the spine of the sleeve.
Provenance
Cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the self titled album by The Specials released on the 2 Tone Records label on 19th October 1979. Sleeve photographs taken by Chalkie Davies and Carol Starr. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via Discogs on 4th March 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Chalkie Davies (b.1955), photographer Carol Starr, photographer 2 Tone Records, record label