TRIBUTES

This category contains some of the best covers going around. They also have a bit of style, compared with the 12 Tops, Parade of Pops, etc., which are truly trashy by comparison.

Before there was the tribute bands, there were the tribute albums, ranging from Jim Reeves sound-a-likes to Tom Jones crooners, each one thinking they could pull off the stint, but sounding no more convincing than the average hopeful down at the local on the karaoke machine. And of course it's much cheaper. Why pay for the real thing when you could have a guy who thinks he can sing like Engelbert? And that was the point; the tribute albums were supposed to be cheaper. That was main thrust behind all of these examples.

I particularly like the cover to The Sessionmen's album with the great use of colour, the green contrasting nicely with the tanned skin of her face and the true blue of her eyes. Another is the sexy woman on the cover of the tribute to Johnny Cash with the gun, the cleavage and the pout. Great stuff. Pity then, that the designers of the Elton John and David Bowie tribute album had to go and spoil it by covering the girl's exposed nipples. Shame. Note, the Tom Jones tribute album has the same photo session as the cover for the Million Sellers of the 60s.

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