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The Ultimate In Glitter Rock (As Well As Pop & Jazz & Schmaltz)

By Elizabeth C.

Michel_Rosenthal"MICHEL ROSENTHAL IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST EXPERTS ON GLITTER ROCK. AND she knows firsthand that all that glitters is not gold: there's also blue glitter and purple glitter and pinks and reds.

Rosenthal, 48, is a psychotherapist/life coach who accesses her creative side by embellishing vintage album covers with the bling we know as glitter. The results are literally and figuratively dazzling fun -- at least to someone (me) who's personal slogan is "everything goes better with glitter." The covers offer shiny trips down "memory lane" where fans enjoy reminiscing about the records they've loved and played.

Rosenthal began embellishing the covers last summer and has started hitting craft fairs. "Everybody gets sort of sucked into the booth,'' she says. "It’s sort of mesmerizing to see the albums. And then the glitter makes people happy, I think. You see people faces transform from blanks to smiles. That’s fun."

Bestsellers are Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run and anything by the Beatles and Elvis. The Grateful Dead? "I can’t keep on my shelf,'' says Rosenthal , who also takes special orders.

Rosenthal also has a store on Etsy where she has about 200 glittery albums for sale, including David Bowie's Low, the Rolling Stones' Some Girls, Henry Mancini's Breakfast At Tiffany's and even South Pacific. Prices range from $60 to $85 -- pricy yes, but that's the going rate for pure gold. Above is Cyndia Lauper's What's Going On.

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Madonna's True Blue pose, 1986.

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This cover is of Elton John's Caribou.

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Here's an embellished cover of Jimmi Hendrix' 1969 Band of Gypsys.

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Here's Jimmy Buffet's 1976 Havana Daydreaming.

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Capitol Records' 1958 release of Roger's and Hammerstein's The King & I.

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Barbra Streisand's 1973 The Way We Were.

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Vintage kitsch: Rosenthal scores with an embellished album of football songs.

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Michael Jackson's iconic Thriller gets even more thrilling.

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John Travolta's eponymous 1976 LP, John Travolta

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