Ed Thrasher was born on March 7, 1932, in Glendale, California. After serving four years in the United States Navy, during the Korean war, he studied art at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College and County Art Institute.

He was hired by Capitol Records art department prior to finishing school. He spent seven years at Capitol and rose to the position of head art director, before being lured away by the then fledgling Warner Bros. Records, which was then located in the old camera repair building at Warner Bros. It wasn’t exactly the Capitol Tower.

Along the way, in 1962, Ed married actress Linda Gray. The couple had two children, Jeff and Kehly, during their twenty two years together.

From that point in 1964, as the companies Art Director, along with some very skilled people, they built Warner Records into one of the largest and most successful companies in the recording industry. Warner Bros. Records now makes it’s home in a beautiful building on the Warner Bros. Lot. As the companies Art Director, he was responsible for the design and follow through construction of the project.

With twelve Grammy nominations for album packaging, including one win and just about every other award there was in his field, Ed left Warner Bros. Records in 1979, after fifteen years with the company to form Ed Thrasher and Associates, an advertising company which created the art for such films as Prince’s "Purple Rain", Mel Gibson’s "Mad Max", and other films for Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Elvis and many others.

Ed Thrasher’s vast photographic library of such artists as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jimi Hendrix and Barbra Streisand are just a few of the countless number he has photographed over the years that are now being handled by MPTV

Ed Thrasher passed away on August 5, 2006, at his Big Bear Lake home.