When Neil Storey joined Island Records’ distributor EMI in 1972, he remembers feeling like he’d just missed out on the “halcyon days” of the label. Founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, the past 13 years had ushered in the age of rock ‘n’ roll which climaxed during the years of 1969-70.

These years are the subject of Storey’s new book, created with designer Jayne Gould, which track Island’s release of some of the century’s most seminal albums against a backdrop of youth revolution. The book is meticulously detailed, featuring 64 LPs (three of which were never released), as well as imagery from the music scene of the time, and recollections from designers, photographers, musicians, and of course Blackwell himself.

This is the second volume in a project that Storey and Gould began after Storey saw a late-night music documentary on Island Records by the BBC that was riddled with inaccuracies. “This is total bollocks. They’re really, really screwing this up,” he thought. Galvanised, he set out to properly document the label’s history. The intention is for the finished project to span five volumes.