Thursday, October 31, 2013

Factory Records graphic album



The Distractions play a small but not insignificant role in the early history of Factory Records.  The beautiful coffee table book, Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album (FAC 461), by the late Tony Wilson (foreword) and Matthew Robertson (Thamas & Hudson) has a number of pieces of Distractions artwork, all in designed by Peter Saville.


Index: X-O-Dus, The Distractions, FAC 7, Sex Pistols, Crawling Chaos, A Certain Ratio


Fac 4 The Factory Club No.3 / Poster / 1978 / Des: Peter Saville


 Fact 10 + 4 Poster / 1979 / Des: Peter Saville
Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, X-O-Dus, The Distractions


Fac 12 The Distractions. Time Goes By So Slow / 7-inch / 1978 / Des: Peter Saville


(c) Matthew Robertson. 
(Thames & Hudson, 2007).

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