I don’t need to work too hard to keep up to date with record releases that have cover art by Klaus Voormann. Thorsten Knublauch–expert on all things about the Beatles in Germany–is also an expert on KLaus Voormann’s art and has tipped me off about a couple of Voormann’s books as well as most of the Voormann covers I’ve collected in recent years. He tippped me off about Wolfgang Bernreuther’s 2023 Still a Fool album when it first appeared as a CD and a quick search of Discogs allerted me to a limited edition vinyl version that I finally got hold of this week.

The deluxe vinyl version includes a fourteen-track 180g LP, a bonus 12″ four-track maxi EP, a large poster of the cover art as well as a Klaus Voormann print. Apparently the deluxe album is limited to 1000 copies.

A couple of months ago Thorsten sent me a picture of a CD with Voormann art that I hadn’t seen before.

The CD was produced by the POP Akademie Baden-Würtemburg and released in 2014. It wasn’t listed on Discogs and I couldn’t find any information about it online. So, I googled the Pop Akademie and found their home page but no contact information. I asked Thorsten if he could try to contact them–my German is non-existent–so I reckoned he would have a better chance of finding a way to get in touch with them. Sure, enough, he not only contacted them but weedled a couple of CDs from them, too, and sent me one.

Now my collection of Klaus Voormann covers totals one hundred and one releases, of the largest of my cover collections–only my Andy Warhol cover collection is bigger.

One of the most common questions people ask me when talking about my record cover collection is “How many covers did so-and-so do?” When discussing Andy Warhol’s cover art, people generally know two covers–and are surprised to hear that he was responsible for almost eighty in his lifetime. Few know that Peter Blake has designed thirty seven covers–they might know Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and, perhaps, Paul Weller’s Stanley Road, but few others. And who knew that David Shrigley has been responsible for forty-one covers?

Anyway–Thank you Throrsten for keeping me up to date on Klaus Voormann’s recrd cover art! I’m truly grateful.