Biko

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Artist/Maker	Peter Saville Associates (design agency) Charisma Records Ltd. (publisher) Wickens, Brett (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (published)

Cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Biko' recorded by Peter Gabriel for Charisma Records.

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Categories	Labels & Packaging Music
Object type	Record Sleeve
Title	Biko
Materials and techniques	Offset lithograph, blue and black on white Offset Lithography
Brief description	Cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Biko' recorded by Peter Gabriel. Cover design by Brett Wickens at Peter Saville Associates, London. Published by Charisma Records Ltd., Great Britain, 1987.
Physical description	Cover sleeve for the 12" single record 'Biko' recorded by Peter Gabriel for Charisma Records.
Marks and inscriptions	Lettered with titles, credits, notes by Gabriel on the Black Activist Stephen Biko (the subject of the song) and 'Proceeds from the sale of this record go to: The International Defence and Art Fund for Southern Africa and the Africa Fund'. Also lettered: 'Sleeve design by Brett Wickens / at Peter Saville Associates, London'.
Credit line	Given by Brett Wickens (Peter Saville Associates)
Object history	The subject of the song (as given in the title) is Stephen Biko, a man who was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.
Subjects depicted	Apartheid Charity
Association	Biko, Stephen
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2284-1990

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Record created	February 23, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O191228/biko-record-sleeve-wickens-brett/

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