Album artwork for A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s. by Jonny Trunk
Album artwork for A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s. by Jonny Trunk

A visual celebration of the shopping bags produced by British record stores from the 1940s to the 1990s. Illustrated with over 550 examples of this previously unrecorded side of popular culture.

AUTHOR: Nostalgia enthusiast Jonny Trunk founded his record label Trunk Records in 1995, which specialises in releasing lost and archived recordings. He compiled and wrote The Music Library, a book that documented the hidden world of library music, and Own Label, a book about Sainsbury’s packaging from 1962-1977. He has worked with Oliver Postgate, Derek Griffiths, Tony Hart and other celebrated artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Jonny also writes for a number of magazines and broadcasts every week on Resonance FM, London’s art broadcasting station.

FOREWORD: Jon Savage is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991.

EDITORS: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell – FUEL – have been publishing books since 2004, with their hugely successful and influential Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series. They have worked with Jonny Trunk on a number of publications, including The Music Library, Own Label, Wrappers Delight and Auto Erotica.

Jonny Trunk, Thames and Hudson

A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s.

Album artwork for A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s. by Jonny Trunk
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Jonny Trunk, Thames and Hudson

A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s.

Album artwork for A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s: British Record Store Bags from the 1940s to 1990s. by Jonny Trunk
Paperback +

£24.95

signed
Signed Copy
Released 28/04/2022Catalogue Number

9781916218482signed

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A visual celebration of the shopping bags produced by British record stores from the 1940s to the 1990s. Illustrated with over 550 examples of this previously unrecorded side of popular culture.

AUTHOR: Nostalgia enthusiast Jonny Trunk founded his record label Trunk Records in 1995, which specialises in releasing lost and archived recordings. He compiled and wrote The Music Library, a book that documented the hidden world of library music, and Own Label, a book about Sainsbury’s packaging from 1962-1977. He has worked with Oliver Postgate, Derek Griffiths, Tony Hart and other celebrated artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Jonny also writes for a number of magazines and broadcasts every week on Resonance FM, London’s art broadcasting station.

FOREWORD: Jon Savage is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991.

EDITORS: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell – FUEL – have been publishing books since 2004, with their hugely successful and influential Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series. They have worked with Jonny Trunk on a number of publications, including The Music Library, Own Label, Wrappers Delight and Auto Erotica.