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‘On Record’ Book Series Is a Time Capsule of Pop Music, Year by Year

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA picture paints a thousand words, the old cliché goes, but it’s truly amazing how much publicity photos of musicians can say about a certain year: The clothes, the shoes, the hats, the belt buckles, the scarves — and most of all, the hairstyles (and lack of styles).

G. Brown’s collection of photos and words, “On Record,” begins with three particularly visually vivid years: 1978, 1984 and 1991, and by the time you’ve seen all 200 photographs, you’re in those years.Brown, a veteran music writer based in Denver, keeps the text light, but the photos are another story completely.

They’re essentially arranged by genre, which means that 1978, for example, ranges from the arena rock of Journey and Boston to pop.

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