Photographer and Illustrator Sean Freeman was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine to create the cover and accompanying art for this week’s main story: The 2008 Universal Studios fire. It was the biggest disaster in the history of music business, and almost nobody knew the truth about it. An archival storage vault with about 175K recordings from some of the greatest artists of the past century – from Ella Fitzgerald to Nirvana – just went up in smoke. Irreplaceable original beloved classics, countless unreleased recordings & studio sessions vanished from the world forever – along with a huge swath of their cultural legacy.