![]() ![]() Anton Corbijnīy the mid-1970s, Pink Floyd had grown disillusioned with the music industry, griping about artists getting “burned” in the business. “I happened to be looking through a book about the refraction of light and suddenly Storm said, ‘I’ve got it! We need to do a pyramid with a refraction of light.’” Pink Floyd, “Wish You Were Here” Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey “Po” Powell and director Anton Corbijn revisit the heyday of ’70s rock album covers. After a cow was famously featured on the curious cover of 1970’s “Atom Heart Mother,” Powell, who started Hipgnosis along with the late Storm Thorgerson, said that the band wanted “something more graphic or simple.” He found inspiration from an unlikely source: physics. ![]() Of all the classic LP covers to come out of Hipgnosis’ visionary factory, Pink Floyd’s 1973 concept album boasts the most iconic image of them all. Pink Floyd, “The Dark Side of the Moon” Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album cover remains the most iconic image produced by Hipgnosis. Here, he and Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey “Po” Powell dish on some key album covers. “Even though vinyl sales have surged again, it’s like a period that’s gone.” “The importance of an album sleeve will never be the same as in the ’70s, and to make a documentary about the most prominent album covers of the era that are all done by one design team is really important for people who have missed that period,” said renowned rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who directed the film. ![]() The new documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” - which opened at NYC’s Film Forum on Wednesday and rolls out nationwide later this month - goes inside the studio that created the visuals for some of the biggest acts of the 1970s. Pink Floyd’s Waters, Gilmour at war over ‘anti-Semitic, Putin apologist’ rantīefore the age of the internet and social media, it was all about album covers.Īnd London-based art design studio Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic art, for classic rock acts such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters fires back at bandmate, says David Gilmour, wife, ‘have no ideas’ Roger Waters dresses as Nazi: ‘Desecrating the memory of Anne Frank’ And to judge from the reaction at the end of Monday night's concert, the audience knows it." In another write up of the band, Jimmy Page's guitar work is described as a "hard-rock version of rape.Roger Waters defends Nazi-style costume after Berlin police launch investigation But they simply don't reach way down deep inside their audiences. The four of them can produce songs that epitomize the contained aggression of the seventies and they can hint very strongly indeed toward what rock is all about. Led Zep isn't original enough to make a really important statement in its music. Meanwhile, the band was touring that year, and after their shows at Madison Square Garden, the Times' John Rockwell wrote: "What is missing is, to put it bluntly, creative significance. certainly the best cut on the album." She does note, however, that it "could be trimmed without losing any of its mesmeric effect." While we cannot track down a NY Times review of the album, they did not name it one of the top albums of the year, giving it runner-up status in their Top 10 list: Although it contains no startling breakthroughs, it does afford an impressive overview of the band's skill." Though the magazine's reviewer, Jim Miller, declared that "'Kashmir' succumb to monotony," Creem's Jaan Uhelszki called it "exotic and musky. confirms Led Zeppelin's preeminence among hard rockers. Rolling Stone gave the album (which was mixed at Electric Lady Studios) 4.5 stars, noting that it was the band's "bid for artistic respectability," delivering on blues, ballads, "acoustic interludes. These days, a tea shop called Physical Graffitea is housed in the building. The buildings haven't changed much since the cover was shot, however, in real life they are taller than they appear on the cover, as the 4th floor was actually taken out to fit the square jacket. (Fun fact: these buildings, as well as International Bar, are also seen in The Rolling Stones' 1981 video for " Waiting on a Friend.") The original album jacket included die-cut windows in the building shown on the cover and inner sleeves with different variations of that, with objects and people in the windows. The cover was designed by Peter Corriston, and features the two buildings located at 96 and 98 St. The double-album was released on this day in 1975, so let's take another look back at that album cover-shot in the East Village-and what critics were saying of the band at the time. In 2006 we started a series called NYC Album Art, kicking things off with Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti cover. ![]()
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