Celebrity Vinyl

A collection of humorous and amusing celebrity album covers, from the likes of Burt Reynolds, John Travolta and Goldie Hawn. Hamling examines the photography, typography and art direction on the album sleeves, and interviews celebrities who thought they could sing.
What do Burt Reynolds, Shaquille O'Neal, Goldie Hawn and John Travolta have in common? At some point in time, they decided to record horrible music albums. In Celebrity Vinyl, Tom Hamling humorously examines what happens when famous people decide to (unsuccessfully) give singing a try. The number of celebrities that have indulged such hubris boggles the mind: Eddie Murphy, Ed McMahon, Alyssa Milano, Chevy Chase, The Dallas Cowboys... the list goes on.
Hamling owns and thoroughly enjoys the world's biggest and best celebrity-vinyl collection. Join him on this personal tour of his kooky passion as he critiques the celebrities in question, as well as the photography and album copy that make each of these album sleeves so curiously compelling.
Celebrity Vinyl serves as a pop-culture microscope that reveals the nuances and blemishes of vinyl and celebrity culture from a bygone era that will make you laugh more now than you did back then.