Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why
British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried the
kudos of sleeve designs and music posters record shop bags offer a fascinating insight into
20th century British music culture high-streets and more. - Creative Review Jonny Trunk's
extensive collection of record shop bags weaves together a less conventional history of British
music celebrating the shops where musicians and fans bought and sold their first LPs. This
book is a love letter to these forgotten spaces accompanied by a juicy selection of anecdotes
and little known facts about the record shops and their bags. Readers gear up for a brilliant
ride down the old British high streets and low streets too. - It's Nice That Jonny Trunk and
FUEL present A-Z of Record Shop Bags - a publication celebrating the humble record store bag.
This exhaustive collection of the record shop bag provides a unique perspective of record
shopping in the UK over the last century bringing together over 500 incredible bags (some
possibly the only surviving examples) to document the fascinating story of British high street
record shopping. Bags from famous chains such as NEMS Our Price and Virgin (the amazingly rare
Roger Dean bags) sit alongside designs from local shops run by eccentric enthusiasts. Packed
with stories such as the first Jewish ska retailer the record sellers who started the premier
league famous staff (David Bowie Dusty Springfield Morrissey etc.) and equally infamous
owners these anecdotes of mythical vinyl entrepreneurs will entertain and delight. With vinyl
record sales at their highest ever for decades (outselling CDs in the US) this publication
acts as an amazing insight into the history culture and visual language of record collecting.
Following Own Label Wrappers Delight and Auto Erotica - A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to
1990s is the next book in the series by Jonny Trunk and FUEL examining overlooked aspects of
our collective past.
