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David Costa
David Costa is credited on 750 releases across 82 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
750
Credits
82
Albums
7
Decades active
1,439
In collections
Biography
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English designer, art director and musician.
Costa played guitar for the UK folk band Trees.
He later went on to become Queen's and Elton John's art director.
Currently runs his design studio Wherefore Art?, working with some of the world’s major artists.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
750 releases · 82 albums · active 1967–2023
- Other credits · 798
- Performance · 117
- Production · 11
- Mastering · 4
Studios: Olympic Studios · Rockfield Studios · Roundhouse Studios · Lansdowne Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

A Night At The Opera
1975

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1973

All Things Must Pass
1970

Greatest Hits

Volume One
1988

A Day At The Races
1976

Elton John
1970

Cloud Nine
1987

The Concert For Bangla Desh
1971

Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II
1977

St. Elsewhere
2006

Vol. 3
1990

Blue Moves
1976

Forty Licks
2002

A Single Man
1978

...Hits
1998

Live In Australia (With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
1987

The Ultimate Experience
1992

Jump Up!
1982

Breaking Hearts
1984

The Traveling Wilburys Collection
2007

24 Nights
1991

Then And Now
2004

Reg Strikes Back
1988
Frequent collaborators
- Elton John
- Trees (3)
- Phil Collins
- Traveling Wilburys
- Queen
- Various
- Kiki Dee
- Juliet Lawson
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