“We always tried to think laterally and not go for the obvious,” he says. And average artwork could take three to six weeks, whereas you could do some of these album covers in an afternoon now.”Īs Powell looks back on the history that he made with Thorgerson, who died of cancer in 2013, he’s most proud of the creativity they shared. Everything had to be shot on film and done by hand.
“You can see the development of Hipgnosis, and how we got more sophisticated, more sleek and clever at photography, graphics, lettering and text,” Powell tells Rolling Stone. It collects the 373 sleeves Powell, Thorgerson and their compatriots made together between ’ with commentary by Powell and Thorgerson, among others, and a foreword by Peter Gabriel. Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue – due out May 16th – will celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary. Hipgnosis – cofounded by artists Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson in 1967 – flipped the script on rock art.Ī new book, Vinyl. Pepper’s, album covers largely were portraits of the bands and artists.
Although the psychedelic era produced beautifully filigreed LP sleeves like Love’s Forever Changes and, of course, Sgt. ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’, ‘More’, ‘Ummagumma’, are also available through Pink Floyd Records.Imagine record sleeves without the advent of Hipgnosis, the photo-design company responsible for Pink Floyd‘s mysterious black prism, Led Zeppelin‘s flaxen-haired nudist children, AC/DC‘s censored everyday villains, Black Sabbath‘s copulating escalator robots and Peter Gabriel‘s melted grilled-cheese face. Pink Floyd’s seventh album ‘Obscured By Clouds’ was originally recorded as the soundtrack to the French film ‘La Vallée’ but released as a stand alone album in 1972. The LP saw the band move musical direction away from their original psychedelic sound, especially highlighted by the 23-minute track Echoes which occupied the entirety of the b-side of the record. In a short break from touring ‘Atom Heart Mother’, in 1971 Pink Floyd released the experimental album, ‘Meddle’. Featuring the classic lineup of Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, the LP went on to become the band’s first UK No.1 record. Pink Floyd followed their 60s albums with their fifth studio album, 1970’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’. ‘The Wall’ and ‘The Division Bell’ are also back in stock on vinyl from August 26th. On 23rd September 2016, Pink Floyd Records will continue the reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalogue on vinyl with ‘ Atom Heart Mother’, ‘ Meddle’ and ‘ Obscured By Clouds’ all remastered from the original analogue master tapes.
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