"From 1957 to 1987, the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music and the cover art from those decades provides a fascinating window into our culture of the time. Award-winning journalist Steve Braunias has been amassing old LPs for years, and documents with his deadpan eye a first top 100 LP covers from Bill & Boyd to Tina Cross, Christian music to punk with detours into the obscure, the iconic and the awful."--Publisher's information.