Ann Wilson of Heart has unveiled the single “This Is Now” from her upcoming album with her backing band Tripsitter. The LP, titled Another Door, arrives on September 29th.
Wilson wrapped up recording sessions for Another Door before her 2023 tour. The album features all-original material, and marks the first time since the 1970s that the singer-songwriter has released a full-length album collectively with a band. In addition to Wilson, Tripsitter features bassist Tony Lucido, guitarist Ryan Wariner, drummer Sean T Lane, and guitarist-keyboardist Paul Moak. The album also features contributions from guitarist Tom Bukovac.
Another Door makes a bit of history for Wilson, as it’s the first time in her career where she was the sole lyricist. “This is an exciting time in my creative life; so much new and fresh to remind me of why I love my calling,” she said in a statement.
Meanwhile, on November 24th,...
Wilson wrapped up recording sessions for Another Door before her 2023 tour. The album features all-original material, and marks the first time since the 1970s that the singer-songwriter has released a full-length album collectively with a band. In addition to Wilson, Tripsitter features bassist Tony Lucido, guitarist Ryan Wariner, drummer Sean T Lane, and guitarist-keyboardist Paul Moak. The album also features contributions from guitarist Tom Bukovac.
Another Door makes a bit of history for Wilson, as it’s the first time in her career where she was the sole lyricist. “This is an exciting time in my creative life; so much new and fresh to remind me of why I love my calling,” she said in a statement.
Meanwhile, on November 24th,...
- 9/15/2023
- by Anne Erickson
- Consequence - Music
Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” His sparkling, childlike melodies and lyrics have cast a huge influence over rock and pop music ever since — David Bowie cited him as a pivotal influence, and it shows — and entire genres of music, particularly the neo-psychedelic waves of the early ‘80s in the U.S. and U.K., bear his fingerprints.
Yet he was also one of rock’s first “acid casualties” — people who took too many drugs, or at least the wrong ones, and were never the same afterward. His bandmates and friends say one day, he was just gone: The distinctive sparkle in his eye and spring in his step had disappeared. He became uncommunicative and withdrawn; he’d go onstage and just stand there,...
Yet he was also one of rock’s first “acid casualties” — people who took too many drugs, or at least the wrong ones, and were never the same afterward. His bandmates and friends say one day, he was just gone: The distinctive sparkle in his eye and spring in his step had disappeared. He became uncommunicative and withdrawn; he’d go onstage and just stand there,...
- 7/14/2023
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Pink Floyd is best known as the band whose Dark Side of the Moon broke all records as the longest charting album in rock music history. Dozens of their songs are classic rock staples, the feature length film of their rock opera The Wall is a cult classic, and their sound is as instantly recognizable as their enigmatic back story. Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd is co-directed by Roddy Bogawa, the filmmaker behind Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis, and Storm Thorgerson, a Pink Floyd intimate who started the graphic arts team which illustrated the band’s most iconic album covers. But the band’s founder and guiding light, Syd Barrett, dimmed in the glare of the spotlight, leaving the group after their second album, long before they achieved the stratospheric success their later work would bring. The...
- 7/14/2023
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Well after their deaths, the pop stars of an earlier era — the mid-20th century, to be precise — are receiving documentary treatment, such greats as Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong among them. Artists of the baby boom, on the other hand, a generation of unprecedented size and many other firsts, are participating in the process, as they have been for decades.
The earliest documentary portraits of boomer musicians set the bar high with a fresh, self-reflexive power. D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 Don’t Look Back traced Dylan’s ambivalent dance into and out of the spotlight, and in 1970 the Maysles brothers’ Gimme Shelter found the Rolling Stones facing darker complexities around the same push-pull. Today, films exploring pop artists’ life’s work, or at least certain aspects of it, are being made while they’re still engaged in it.
Two of the most captivating and poignant documentaries to hit...
The earliest documentary portraits of boomer musicians set the bar high with a fresh, self-reflexive power. D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 Don’t Look Back traced Dylan’s ambivalent dance into and out of the spotlight, and in 1970 the Maysles brothers’ Gimme Shelter found the Rolling Stones facing darker complexities around the same push-pull. Today, films exploring pop artists’ life’s work, or at least certain aspects of it, are being made while they’re still engaged in it.
Two of the most captivating and poignant documentaries to hit...
- 7/13/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anton Corbijn directs this enjoyable documentary about the design duo who created extraordinary images for Pink Floyd, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and more
Photographer and film-maker Anton Corbijn is the very best person to direct this very enjoyable documentary about design outfit Hipgnosis and its dynamic co-founders Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson, the creative powerhouse who virtually invented the concept of the album cover as a vital artform; they worked for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Wings, 10cc and others, when the vinyl rock industry was in its 70s pomp. They devised extraordinary images which were enigmatic, monolithic, audacious, funny, surreal, hip and gnomic and conceived albums as an unacknowledged multi-media experience: you gazed at the cover while the LP was on the turntable. Hipgnosis’s staggering location work in deserts and wildernesses and with flying pigs over London landmarks virtually made them pioneers of land art, the...
Photographer and film-maker Anton Corbijn is the very best person to direct this very enjoyable documentary about design outfit Hipgnosis and its dynamic co-founders Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson, the creative powerhouse who virtually invented the concept of the album cover as a vital artform; they worked for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Wings, 10cc and others, when the vinyl rock industry was in its 70s pomp. They devised extraordinary images which were enigmatic, monolithic, audacious, funny, surreal, hip and gnomic and conceived albums as an unacknowledged multi-media experience: you gazed at the cover while the LP was on the turntable. Hipgnosis’s staggering location work in deserts and wildernesses and with flying pigs over London landmarks virtually made them pioneers of land art, the...
- 7/12/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Control director Anton Corbijn’s new film tells the chaotic, tragic story of the creative duo behind some of the most recognisable covers of all time
Only at the end of our interview does it dawn on both of us that Anton Corbijn has been sitting in front of his huge vinyl record collection at his home in Amsterdam the whole time. It is fitting: not just because Corbijn, now 68, initially made his name by photographing Joy Division and went on to shoot and make music videos for the likes of Depeche Mode, U2, the Killers and Rem, but also because he has just directed a documentary, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), about the celebrated record sleeves of Aubrey “Po” Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson.
Hipgnosis was one of the trailblazers of album cover design during the golden age of the late 60s and 70s. It conceived...
Only at the end of our interview does it dawn on both of us that Anton Corbijn has been sitting in front of his huge vinyl record collection at his home in Amsterdam the whole time. It is fitting: not just because Corbijn, now 68, initially made his name by photographing Joy Division and went on to shoot and make music videos for the likes of Depeche Mode, U2, the Killers and Rem, but also because he has just directed a documentary, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), about the celebrated record sleeves of Aubrey “Po” Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson.
Hipgnosis was one of the trailblazers of album cover design during the golden age of the late 60s and 70s. It conceived...
- 7/3/2023
- by Lee Campbell
- The Guardian - Film News
In the history of album cover art, only two parties have become arguably almost as famous as some of the bands they shot or designed for: Hipgnosis, in the 1970s, and Anton Corbijn, from the mid-‘80s forward. Those two forces come together with a new documentary, “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis),” directed by Corbijn, about the era of artwork that entranced him, like most music fans, as a youth. Forty years after Hipgnosis ceased to be a going concern as we knew it, the company’s covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and countless others continue to be collected in coffee-table books. And when it comes to the stories behind the sleeves, rock fans still just can’t get enough… to quote a band that Corbijn came to be associated with a little bit later.
Before the film hits home video, it will have a one-night showing...
Before the film hits home video, it will have a one-night showing...
- 6/19/2023
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Two from Magnolia Pictures, the story of an iconic record album design firm back and a sighting of Brian Cox usher in a specialty weekend with smoke clearing over New York City. Acrid plumes from Canadian wildfires have smothered the key arthouse market over the past few days in an unusual air quality event that had Mayor Eric Adams urging people to home.
Friday the sky was visible and air fresher, a boon for all — including the ongoing Tribeca Festival, which opened Wednesday night and will be unspooling 100+ features and events through June 17.
New openings: From Magnolia, Dalíland by Mary Harron starring Ben Kingsley as the iconic artist in 20 markets (including Quad in NYC and Nuart in LA) and on VOD. Written by John C. Walsh. With Christopher Briney, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Andreja Pejic. Premiered as TIFF’s closing night film, see Deadline review here. Follows the later years...
Friday the sky was visible and air fresher, a boon for all — including the ongoing Tribeca Festival, which opened Wednesday night and will be unspooling 100+ features and events through June 17.
New openings: From Magnolia, Dalíland by Mary Harron starring Ben Kingsley as the iconic artist in 20 markets (including Quad in NYC and Nuart in LA) and on VOD. Written by John C. Walsh. With Christopher Briney, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Andreja Pejic. Premiered as TIFF’s closing night film, see Deadline review here. Follows the later years...
- 6/9/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Having been responsible for some of the most iconic photographs since he picked up a camera nearly five decades ago, Anton Corbijn seamless transition to music videos then narrative features and now, with Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), he’s helmed his first documentary. Charting the entertaining tale of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell’s album-art design studio Hipgnosis, the film features quite a roster of interviewees: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd; Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin; Paul McCartney; Peter Gabriel; Graham Gouldman of 10cc; Noel Gallagher; and more.
As the film begins playing at NYC’s Film Forum today, ahead of an LA opening on June 16 and nationwide screenings on June 20, I spoke with Corbijn about embarking on his first documentary, his favorite album covers, his involvement in the marketing process of his films, reflecting on The American,...
As the film begins playing at NYC’s Film Forum today, ahead of an LA opening on June 16 and nationwide screenings on June 20, I spoke with Corbijn about embarking on his first documentary, his favorite album covers, his involvement in the marketing process of his films, reflecting on The American,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
No idea was ever too much, or inconvenient, for the graphic artists Hipgnosis, whose iconic album artwork designs serve as the centerpiece for Anton Corbijn’s documentary Squaring the Circle: (The Story of Hipgnosis). In the latest trailer for the film, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, musicians Paul McCartney, Nick Mason, Jimmy Page, and more reflect on Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson’s reign and willingness to go the distance.
“Paul McCartney called me up and he said, ‘I want to put it on Everest,'” Thorgerson said in the trailer,...
“Paul McCartney called me up and he said, ‘I want to put it on Everest,'” Thorgerson said in the trailer,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
How did album covers become an art form all its own? Anton Corbijn looks at one of the medium’s most respected duos in “Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis).” Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell’s art design studio Hipgnosis is behind some of the music industry’s most legendary covers, including Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side Of The Moon.” And while the pair’s visionary work inspired artists around the world,their story wasn’t without its pitfalls.
Continue reading ‘Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ Red Band Trailer: Anton Corbijn’s Doc About Art Design Studio Hits Theaters This June at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ Red Band Trailer: Anton Corbijn’s Doc About Art Design Studio Hits Theaters This June at The Playlist.
- 5/4/2023
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
You are likely familiar with the the photographs and narrative films of Anton Corbijn, but now the artist has directed his first-ever documentary on a subject he knows well. Squaring the Circle, a Sundance and Telluride selection, examines the work of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis. Ahead of a release on June 7 from Utopia, the first trailer has now arrived.
Featuring brand-new interviews with Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Noel Gallagher, and more, the documentary explores how the pair were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run, and Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, all three of which celebrate their 50th anniversaries this year.
Check out the trailer below, along...
Featuring brand-new interviews with Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Noel Gallagher, and more, the documentary explores how the pair were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run, and Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, all three of which celebrate their 50th anniversaries this year.
Check out the trailer below, along...
- 5/4/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Filmmaker and iconic music video director Anton Corbijn is turning his camera on the most recognizable album covers of all time.
From the director of “Control” and classic New Wave music videos from the likes of Depeche Mode and Joy Division, “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” charts the legacy of the design studio behind iconic rock imagery like Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album cover. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the film below.
“Squaring the Circle” captures the story behind co-founders Aubrey “Po” Powell and late visionary Storm Thorgerson, the creative geniuses behind the London-based iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis. As Hipgnosis, the pair were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including “Dark Side of the Moon,” Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Band on the Run” and Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy,” all celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year.
From the director of “Control” and classic New Wave music videos from the likes of Depeche Mode and Joy Division, “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” charts the legacy of the design studio behind iconic rock imagery like Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album cover. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the film below.
“Squaring the Circle” captures the story behind co-founders Aubrey “Po” Powell and late visionary Storm Thorgerson, the creative geniuses behind the London-based iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis. As Hipgnosis, the pair were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including “Dark Side of the Moon,” Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Band on the Run” and Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy,” all celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year.
- 5/4/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
"He launched them into space." Mercury Studios has launched their official trailer for a music history doc film titled in full: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd. This look back at the origins of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd was co-directed by Hipgnosis founder Storm Thorgerson, who passed away in 2013, but is still credited as director for all his work over the years on this project. The film examines the relationship between Pink Floyd - the visionaries behind prog rock and British psychedelic music – and founding member Syd Barrett, who left the group before they met stardom. It was Syd who gave the group their moniker by combining the names of blues players – Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Intimate interviews with band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters uncover Barrett’s ongoing impact on the group. Narrated by the actor Jason Isaacs,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A documentary about legendary Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Have You Got It Yet?: The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, is receiving a North American theatrical release in late June. A newly unveiled official trailer can be seen below.
Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...
Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
A documentary about legendary Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Have You Got It Yet?: The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, is receiving a North American theatrical release in late June. A newly unveiled official trailer can be seen below.
Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...
Directed by filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late album cover artist Storm Thorgerson, the feature-length documentary will detail Barrett’s life and time in Pink Floyd with unprecedented access. Classic band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters were all interviewed for the film, as well as those who were closest to Barrett during his lifetime, such as original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
Barrett is a figure who has long been shrouded in mystery, guiding Pink Floyd in their early days as a creative leader and chief songwriter. The band’s 1967 debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is considered one of the greatest psychedelic records of all-time,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Film News
The previously announced Syd Barrett documentary Have You Got It Yet?, about the Pink Floyd founder-turned-recluse-turned-mythic cult icon, has shared its first trailer ahead of its U.S. release this summer.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd features new interviews with the band’s surviving members — Roger Waters (Barrett’s classmate and Pink Floyd’s co-founder), Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — to provide insight into The Piper at the Gates of Dawn mastermind’s meteoric rise, acid-fueled breakdown and eventual exile from the band.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd features new interviews with the band’s surviving members — Roger Waters (Barrett’s classmate and Pink Floyd’s co-founder), Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — to provide insight into The Piper at the Gates of Dawn mastermind’s meteoric rise, acid-fueled breakdown and eventual exile from the band.
- 4/26/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty years after Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy, we know its best songs rank among the band’s finest. After a two-month delay because of the album artwork, Zep released their fifth album to a ravenous fan base that helped it go gold in less than two weeks. Despite the delay, Jimmy Page still hated the Houses of the Holy cover, and 50 years later, we know just how wrong he was.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page | Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin fired the original ‘Houses of the Holy’ album cover designer
Just say the words Houses of the Holy, and you can practically see the cover: The glowing orange sky, kaleidoscopic-colored rocks, and naked children climbing on them toward the summit. Page hated the final design, but it beats the alternative — an image of a tennis racket.
Storm Thorgerson, a founder of...
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page | Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin fired the original ‘Houses of the Holy’ album cover designer
Just say the words Houses of the Holy, and you can practically see the cover: The glowing orange sky, kaleidoscopic-colored rocks, and naked children climbing on them toward the summit. Page hated the final design, but it beats the alternative — an image of a tennis racket.
Storm Thorgerson, a founder of...
- 3/28/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and music was primarily heard through vinyl discs on a rotating machine with a needle, you’d go down to your local record shop and purchase an album. Then you’d go back home, slap the platter on your player and listen intently. More often than not, these albums would have a picture of the artist or group on the front, staring joyously or moodily back at you. These were the people making the sounds you heard. All very simple. Ask your grandparents about it.
- 1/25/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The rainbow flag, created by artist Gilbert Baker, was first flown as a symbol of queer liberation at a San Francisco parade in 1978. Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon, five years before, in 1973 — with cover art depicting light refracted through a prism to produce a rainbow. The late designer Storm Thorgerson intended it as a tribute to the band’s famous light shows.
And now, in 2023, as the legendary group marks the 50th anniversary of their most enduring touchstone, a few ill-informed individuals...
And now, in 2023, as the legendary group marks the 50th anniversary of their most enduring touchstone, a few ill-informed individuals...
- 1/20/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
The documentary Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), about the famed art design studio behind album art from Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, has landed at Utopia.
Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man, The American) makes his feature doc debut on the project, which is heading to the Sundance Film Festival after premiering at Telluride. The doc tells the story of Hipgnosis and its founders Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, who were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, and worked with artists like Paul McCartney, Wings, Black Sabbath and AC/DC.
Interviews include McCartney, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason; Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page; Peter Gabriel; 10cc’s Graham Gouldman; and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher.
Utopia is planning a summer release.
Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man, The American) makes his feature doc debut on the project, which is heading to the Sundance Film Festival after premiering at Telluride. The doc tells the story of Hipgnosis and its founders Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, who were responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, and worked with artists like Paul McCartney, Wings, Black Sabbath and AC/DC.
Interviews include McCartney, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason; Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page; Peter Gabriel; 10cc’s Graham Gouldman; and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher.
Utopia is planning a summer release.
- 1/6/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Syd Barrett, who walked Pink Floyd through the gates of dawn before mental illness forced his departure from the then-rising group, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary featuring new interviews with his former bandmates.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd will chronicle the early years of the band, as well as the life of the elusive and madcap Barrett after he left the band during the recording of 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets; Roger “Syd” Barrett died in 2006 at the age of 60.
Mercury Studios,...
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd will chronicle the early years of the band, as well as the life of the elusive and madcap Barrett after he left the band during the recording of 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets; Roger “Syd” Barrett died in 2006 at the age of 60.
Mercury Studios,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Mercury Studios has completed work on a documentary about the co-founder of one of the greatest rock n’ roll bands of all time.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd explores the enigmatic Barrett, who wrote Pink Floyd’s first two hits and even came up with the band’s name (a mashup of obscure blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). In 1968, only a few years after the group’s founding, Barrett was forced out of Pink Floyd when his bandmates became alarmed about his mental stability and use of psychedelic drugs.
Barrett recorded a couple of solo albums before exiting the business.
Musician-artist Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd
“Barrett dropped out of music, returning home to Cambridge for the last 30 years of his life and his first love of painting,” according to a release about the documentary. “Poignantly, some of...
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd explores the enigmatic Barrett, who wrote Pink Floyd’s first two hits and even came up with the band’s name (a mashup of obscure blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). In 1968, only a few years after the group’s founding, Barrett was forced out of Pink Floyd when his bandmates became alarmed about his mental stability and use of psychedelic drugs.
Barrett recorded a couple of solo albums before exiting the business.
Musician-artist Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd
“Barrett dropped out of music, returning home to Cambridge for the last 30 years of his life and his first love of painting,” according to a release about the documentary. “Poignantly, some of...
- 10/14/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It may be the most famous album cover ever created.
The background – black. In the foreground, a shaft of white light pierces a triangular prism and exits separating into brilliant bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
The artwork, as any true rock fan can instantly tell you, is for the 1973 Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon. We know the band, we know the record, but who designed that album cover? It came out of the exceptional British design firm Hipgnosis, the subject of the new documentary Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis). Anton Corbijn directed the film, which made its world premiere over the Labor Day Weekend at the Telluride Film Festival.
“The beauty of white on black [background], with colors, it’s just the simplicity,” Corbijn says of that prismatic design. “I think it’s a beautiful album sleeve, and I think it probably defines the album sleeve.
The background – black. In the foreground, a shaft of white light pierces a triangular prism and exits separating into brilliant bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
The artwork, as any true rock fan can instantly tell you, is for the 1973 Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon. We know the band, we know the record, but who designed that album cover? It came out of the exceptional British design firm Hipgnosis, the subject of the new documentary Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis). Anton Corbijn directed the film, which made its world premiere over the Labor Day Weekend at the Telluride Film Festival.
“The beauty of white on black [background], with colors, it’s just the simplicity,” Corbijn says of that prismatic design. “I think it’s a beautiful album sleeve, and I think it probably defines the album sleeve.
- 9/5/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
When it comes to coffee-table books that survey the great album covers of the classic rock era, there are generally two kinds: those that include a lot of the work of the 1970s design team called Hipgnosis, and those that consist entirely of Hipgnosis’ work. Virtually any rock superstar who had the cachet to ask his record company to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Hipgnosis cover went for the splurge of commissioning an original piece of art that might join classic LP jackets from Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in a renaissance of 12’x12′ photographic surrealism. Only Hipgnosis could shoot a photo of a cow against a blue sky, put it on a Floyd cover (“Atom Heart Mother”), and make it look like an act of mysterious profundity on a level with the greatest works of Magritte.
Although Hipgnosis in its prime did some non-photographically based covers...
Although Hipgnosis in its prime did some non-photographically based covers...
- 9/4/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Lately, there’s been a curious strain of kneejerk revulsion expressed toward musical biopics such as “Elvis” for repeating tropes identified in “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” as if all popular genres don’t have repeated tropes. What’s funny is that there’s never really been the same reaction toward music documentaries in the 40 years since “This Is Spinal Tap.” Especially since that’s a much better movie. But why should there be? Just like pop and rock music depend on repetition (and the anticipation of repetition) for satisfaction and emotional release, music films, narrative or documentary, return to the same hallmarks over and over again.
“Squaring the Circle,” Anton Corbijn’s feature documentary debut, falls into this tradition too. This slightly overlong look at Hipgnosis, the London-based graphic design startup that designed some of the most striking, and important, album covers from 1968 to 1980, retreads all the old...
“Squaring the Circle,” Anton Corbijn’s feature documentary debut, falls into this tradition too. This slightly overlong look at Hipgnosis, the London-based graphic design startup that designed some of the most striking, and important, album covers from 1968 to 1980, retreads all the old...
- 9/4/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
It should hardly come as a surprise that Anton Corbijn would want to make a movie about iconic rock ‘n’ roll looks. Before he began directing feature films with 2007’s striking Joy Division drama “Control,” after all, Corbijn was responsible for quite a few notable rock looks of his own as a design director and rock photographer responsible for U2’s “The Joshua Tree” album cover, among many others.
So when the Dutch photographer-turned-director, whose other films include “The Americans” and “A Most Wanted Man,” turns to rock iconography for the documentary “Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis),” it’s clear that the guy knows what he’s talking about — not that Corbijn himelf does the talking in the film, which had its world premiere on Friday at the Telluride Film Festival.
Instead, he leaves the storytelling to the illustrious likes of Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page,...
So when the Dutch photographer-turned-director, whose other films include “The Americans” and “A Most Wanted Man,” turns to rock iconography for the documentary “Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis),” it’s clear that the guy knows what he’s talking about — not that Corbijn himelf does the talking in the film, which had its world premiere on Friday at the Telluride Film Festival.
Instead, he leaves the storytelling to the illustrious likes of Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Pink Floyd have finally announced the release date for the long-delayed reissue of their classic 1977 LP Animals.
Animals 2018 Remix will arrive starting Sept. 16, with the Orwellian concept album also receiving its first-ever 5.1 Stereo Sound release. While the reissue doesn’t feature any bonus tracks, it does include a polished-up mix overseen by engineer James Guthrie of the original five-song album on CD, vinyl, Blu-ray, and Sacd.
As the title suggests, the remix was completed in 2018 and originally intended for release around that time; however, the reissue was delayed as former...
Animals 2018 Remix will arrive starting Sept. 16, with the Orwellian concept album also receiving its first-ever 5.1 Stereo Sound release. While the reissue doesn’t feature any bonus tracks, it does include a polished-up mix overseen by engineer James Guthrie of the original five-song album on CD, vinyl, Blu-ray, and Sacd.
As the title suggests, the remix was completed in 2018 and originally intended for release around that time; however, the reissue was delayed as former...
- 6/30/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd will release a “restored and re-edited” edition of their Pulse concert film, which documented the band’s gargantuan Division Bell tour, next year. The film will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on Feb. 18.
The film documented the band’s Oct. 20, 1994 appearance at London’s Earl’s Court and features a full performance of The Dark Side of the Moon. The band’s core lineup for the concerts featured guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason.
The upgraded film previously featured in Pink Floyd’s...
The film documented the band’s Oct. 20, 1994 appearance at London’s Earl’s Court and features a full performance of The Dark Side of the Moon. The band’s core lineup for the concerts featured guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason.
The upgraded film previously featured in Pink Floyd’s...
- 12/16/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd will break out the streamlined remix of their 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, that recently appeared on their box set, The Later Years, as its own release this fall. For the release, frontman David Gilmour and engineer Andy Jackson reconfigured the album from scratch, with help from Damon Iddins, getting rid of a lot of Eighties signposts (like ultrareverberated drums) and boosting the contributions of late Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright. It also features newly recorded drum parts by the band’s Nick Mason. The album is home...
- 9/2/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
While the world waits for the upcoming Animals box set, Pink Floyd launched a new collection of quick-drying beach towels and fleece blankets with the accessories brand Slowtide. The brand-new Pink Floyd x Slowtide capsule collection is available to shop today, with designs taken from the band’s albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, The Wall and The Division Bell.
Courtesy Slowtide
Buy:
Pink Floyd Collection
at
Slowtide
Slowtide has previously collaborated with other bands in the past, including Grateful Dead and the Beatles, and its new...
Courtesy Slowtide
Buy:
Pink Floyd Collection
at
Slowtide
Slowtide has previously collaborated with other bands in the past, including Grateful Dead and the Beatles, and its new...
- 8/3/2021
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Discovering the Mars Volta has always felt like finding the key to another dimension teeming with monsters and magical arcana; twisted fables and dangerous lore. It’s fitting, then, that their new career-spanning boxset, La Realidad de los Sueños, resembles some kind of trippy, seemingly bottomless treasure chest — . Lift a hidden lid and a duo of pins tumble out — shift the LPs and a pair of 3D glasses fall to the floor that brings the album art covering the box to shivering life.
As Mars Volta impresario Omar Rodríguez-López said...
As Mars Volta impresario Omar Rodríguez-López said...
- 4/22/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Happy 40th anniversary to Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door, the band’s stunning final statement that has only begun to be appreciated in recent years. Unsurprisingly, this magazine slammed it so hard its hinges almost flew off: “If perchance Robert Plant meets someone who doesn’t dump on him, he should avoid calling her ‘the apple of my eye’ or she will probably reject him,” Charles M. Young cracked in Rolling Stone. “Just as I am rejecting ‘I’m Gonna Crawl,’ in which he sings that cliché...
- 8/16/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd are not exactly the ideal band for Beavis and Butt-Head to enjoy. Broadly speaking, their songs are way too cerebral, mellow and complex for the two animated teenagers that worship the likes of AC/DC and Metallica. It’s possible they’d dig heavier songs like “Run Like Hell” and “One of These Days” — and they’d certainly love the “We don’t need no education” chorus in “Another Brick in the Wall” — but if a song isn’t conducive to head-banging they pretty much don’t want to hear it.
- 11/6/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd is dropping their first new album in 20 years this fall. "The Endless River" will by out via Columbia on Nov. 10, and is a whopping 18 songs long. The evolution of the album, according to a release, started with the 1993 "Division Bell" recording sessions, with David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason. It's described as a "four-sided instrumental album" plus one song with lyrics, "Louder Than Words,” words written by Gilmour's wife, novelist Polly Samson. Keyboardist Wright died in 2008, and the finishing of this album was "a tribute" to him, according to Gilmour and Mason. Wrote Gilmour: "'The Endless River' has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions. We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album. Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and...
- 9/22/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Edited by Jeremy Frommer and Rick Schwartz | Introduction by Ben Bova | Published by powerHouse Books | Format: Hardcover, 224pp
Omni was a magazine published from the late-seventies to the mid-nineties mostly covering science and science fiction. I was a bit young to have been a reader of it, but having researched the magazine after looking through The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni, I can confirm that it looks like exactly the kind of wacky and fantastic thing I would have dug hard. The Art of Omni is a collection of some of the illustrations that graced the magazine’s pages and it is quite wonderful to see.
Most of the illustrations could quite comfortably be under ‘cosmic surrealism’, the name given to some contributions by Luděk Pešek. There are depictions of futuristic landscapes, cyborgs, aliens, distant planets and so forth as well as some weird, Daliesque images straight out of some peoples’ kooky subconscious.
Omni was a magazine published from the late-seventies to the mid-nineties mostly covering science and science fiction. I was a bit young to have been a reader of it, but having researched the magazine after looking through The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni, I can confirm that it looks like exactly the kind of wacky and fantastic thing I would have dug hard. The Art of Omni is a collection of some of the illustrations that graced the magazine’s pages and it is quite wonderful to see.
Most of the illustrations could quite comfortably be under ‘cosmic surrealism’, the name given to some contributions by Luděk Pešek. There are depictions of futuristic landscapes, cyborgs, aliens, distant planets and so forth as well as some weird, Daliesque images straight out of some peoples’ kooky subconscious.
- 8/4/2014
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Take out your iPod. Hit shuffle a few times. Chances are, if you’re a fan of rock, pop, electronica or heavy metal music released over the last thirty or forty years, it won’t be long before an album cover designed by Storm Thorgerson comes up. Thorgerson has lent his art to everyone from rock giants Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to modern acts like Biffy Clyro, the Mars Volta and Pendulum.
Thorgerson’s visually striking and surreal artwork ensured that some of the defining musical acts of the 60s and 70s had equally memorable album covers. He continued working right into the twenty-first century too, ensuring that generations of music fans were attracted by his imagery.
In tribute to Thorgerson, who died on Wednesday 18 April aged 69, we present a list of 20 of our favourite album covers.
20. Megadeth – Rude Awakening
Far too often bands just go with...
Thorgerson’s visually striking and surreal artwork ensured that some of the defining musical acts of the 60s and 70s had equally memorable album covers. He continued working right into the twenty-first century too, ensuring that generations of music fans were attracted by his imagery.
In tribute to Thorgerson, who died on Wednesday 18 April aged 69, we present a list of 20 of our favourite album covers.
20. Megadeth – Rude Awakening
Far too often bands just go with...
- 4/21/2013
- by Bernard O'Rourke
- Obsessed with Film
Storm Thorgerson, the English graphic designer that created the art for more than a dozen Pink Floyd albums, including "Dark Side of the Moon," died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 70. Thorgerson's long career working with the rock band began in 1968 when he designed the sleeve for "A Saucerful of Secrets." After co-founding the graphic art group Hipgnosis, Thorgerson created the iconic cover art for "Moon," regarded as one of the greatest album covers of all time. Also read: Notable Celebrity Deaths of 2013 "He has been a constant force...
- 4/19/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Storm Thorgerson, a graphic designer responsible for the artwork on many vinyl record albums in your parents’ collections whose jackets still smell faintly of marijuana smoke, has died at 69. He had been suffering from cancer for several years. Thorgerson got his first gig through connections: As a teenager, he had been schoolmates with founding Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. In 1968, at a time when the band was suffering from internal strife and Barrett was on the verge of being nudged out, Thorgerson and his flatmate Aubrey Powell were, he later wrote, “trying in some measure ...
- 4/19/2013
- avclub.com
He wasn't an official member of Pink Floyd but he might as well have been. Storm Thorgerson, the English graphic designer best known for creating a slew of iconic album covers for the classic rockers, including those for The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, died Thursday. The sad news was announced on Pink Floyd's official website. "His ending was peaceful and he was surrounded by family and friends. He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003. He was in his 70th year," said his family in a release. In a separate statement, the group hailed Thorgerson as a "graphic genius, friend and...
- 4/19/2013
- E! Online
Storm Thorgerson, the artist behind numerous iconic album covers for bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Phish and Muse has died in his native Britain. The artist was 69-years-old and had struggled against a long running battle with cancer.
Thorgerson's family released a statement saying, "His ending was peaceful ... He was surrounded by family and friends. He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003."
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason tells the BBC of Thorgerson, "Two days before he passed away, and by then completely exhausted, he was still demanding approval for artwork and haranguing his loyal assistants." Vocalist David Gilmour calls Thorgerson "an inseparable part of [Pink Floyd's] work."...
Thorgerson's family released a statement saying, "His ending was peaceful ... He was surrounded by family and friends. He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003."
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason tells the BBC of Thorgerson, "Two days before he passed away, and by then completely exhausted, he was still demanding approval for artwork and haranguing his loyal assistants." Vocalist David Gilmour calls Thorgerson "an inseparable part of [Pink Floyd's] work."...
- 4/19/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
London, Apr 19: Artist Storm Thorgerson, who created the iconic artwork for Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 69.
Thorgerson was a long-term collaborator with the English rock band and a childhood friend of its members.
He created covers for multi-million selling albums by Led Zeppelin, Muse and Peter Gabriel, Sky News reported.
"We are saddened by the news that long-time Pink Floyd graphic genius, friend and collaborator, Storm Thorgerson, has died," a statement on the band's official website read.
"Our thoughts are with his family and many friends," the statement.
Thorgerson was a long-term collaborator with the English rock band and a childhood friend of its members.
He created covers for multi-million selling albums by Led Zeppelin, Muse and Peter Gabriel, Sky News reported.
"We are saddened by the news that long-time Pink Floyd graphic genius, friend and collaborator, Storm Thorgerson, has died," a statement on the band's official website read.
"Our thoughts are with his family and many friends," the statement.
- 4/19/2013
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
Storm Thorgerson, best known for the design of iconic Pink Floyd albums including Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, died Thursday after a lengthy illness, the band announced. He was 69. Pink Floyd’s official site released a statement saying, "We are saddened by the news that longtime Pink Floyd graphic genius, friend and collaborator, Storm Thorgerson, has died. Our thoughts are with his family and many friends." Guitarist David Gilmour said in a separate statement, "The artworks that he created for Pink Floyd from 1968 to the present day have been an inseparable part of
read more...
read more...
- 4/18/2013
- by Lakia Young, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- English graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, whose eye-popping album art for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin encapsulated the spirit of 1970s psychedelia, died Thursday. He was 69.
In a statement, Thorgerson's family said that his death "was peaceful and he was surrounded by family and friends." The statement gave few further details but said that the artist, who suffered a stroke in 2003, had been ill for some time.
Even those who not familiar with Thorgerson's name will have seen his work gracing vinyl collections and CD racks. He was best known for his surreal Pink Floyd covers, which guitarist David Gilmour said had long been "an inseparable part of our work."
Some of Thorgerson's covers – the disturbing image of burning man in a business suit featured on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" or the stark prism on the band's "Dark Side of the Moon" – have become icons in their own right.
In a statement, Thorgerson's family said that his death "was peaceful and he was surrounded by family and friends." The statement gave few further details but said that the artist, who suffered a stroke in 2003, had been ill for some time.
Even those who not familiar with Thorgerson's name will have seen his work gracing vinyl collections and CD racks. He was best known for his surreal Pink Floyd covers, which guitarist David Gilmour said had long been "an inseparable part of our work."
Some of Thorgerson's covers – the disturbing image of burning man in a business suit featured on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" or the stark prism on the band's "Dark Side of the Moon" – have become icons in their own right.
- 4/18/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The mighty and all-powerful Chicago Underground Film Festival has done the absolute unthinkable: Reached their 20th year of operation! How many underground festivals have accomplished that feat? None, until now! Well, “now” being March 6-10 at the fest’s new location: The Logan Theatre.
Obviously, there are a lot of people who have worked with the fest over the years to help make it last for exactly two fantastic decades, but, truly, there is one special person who has to be specially lauded for his tireless dedication to the advancement of underground film and its makers. Especially because Cuff hasn’t just been around for 20 years: It’s been fucking awesome for 20 years.
That person, of course, is Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf, who has been with the fest for the very first edition to it’s most recent, mind-blowing one. Year after year, Wendorf has guided Cuff into defining, challenging,...
Obviously, there are a lot of people who have worked with the fest over the years to help make it last for exactly two fantastic decades, but, truly, there is one special person who has to be specially lauded for his tireless dedication to the advancement of underground film and its makers. Especially because Cuff hasn’t just been around for 20 years: It’s been fucking awesome for 20 years.
That person, of course, is Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf, who has been with the fest for the very first edition to it’s most recent, mind-blowing one. Year after year, Wendorf has guided Cuff into defining, challenging,...
- 2/13/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you’ve never done a Google image search for ‘Polish Film Posters’ then you’ve yet to spend a good fifteen to twenty minutes having your mind boggled by some of the most surreal movie-related images you’re likely to see. As such I was delighted to be invited to the private view of Iluzjon, a collection of some the classiest and craziest Polish posters of the sixties and seventies collected by Eye Sea Posters.
The exhibition is held at Protein in trendy Shoreditch and its opening was celebrated with a DJ specialising in synth soundtracks and copious amounts of Davna Polska Vodka. The works on display include posters for Death in Venice, Five Easy Pieces, Klute and many more, by a selection of artists including Jerzy Flisak, Wiktor Gorka and others.
The posters were commissioned by the Polish state during the country’s communist period as the Western...
The exhibition is held at Protein in trendy Shoreditch and its opening was celebrated with a DJ specialising in synth soundtracks and copious amounts of Davna Polska Vodka. The works on display include posters for Death in Venice, Five Easy Pieces, Klute and many more, by a selection of artists including Jerzy Flisak, Wiktor Gorka and others.
The posters were commissioned by the Polish state during the country’s communist period as the Western...
- 10/20/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 26, 2012
Studio: Eagle Rock
The documentary film The Story of Wish You Were Here offers an in-depth look at the making of the landmark 1975 album by the legendary British rock bank Pink Floyd.
Released September 1975, Wish You Were Here was the follow-up to Floyd’s wildly successful Dark Side Of The Moon album. Like its predecessor, Wish You Were Here immediately went straight to No. 1 in the UK and the U.S..
The DVD, which is authorized by the surviving members of the band and was made with their involvement and cooperation, tells the story of the making of the album and features new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also included are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, vocalist Roy Harper, front-cover “burning man” Ronnie Rondell and other people involved with the album.
In addition,...
Studio: Eagle Rock
The documentary film The Story of Wish You Were Here offers an in-depth look at the making of the landmark 1975 album by the legendary British rock bank Pink Floyd.
Released September 1975, Wish You Were Here was the follow-up to Floyd’s wildly successful Dark Side Of The Moon album. Like its predecessor, Wish You Were Here immediately went straight to No. 1 in the UK and the U.S..
The DVD, which is authorized by the surviving members of the band and was made with their involvement and cooperation, tells the story of the making of the album and features new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also included are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, vocalist Roy Harper, front-cover “burning man” Ronnie Rondell and other people involved with the album.
In addition,...
- 4/18/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
An inflatable pig was used to create a real-life replica of the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals yesterday. To mark the re-issue of the band's 14 studio albums, the pig was flown over Battersea Power Station in a recreation of the iconic sleeve designed by songwriter Roger Waters with Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Earlier this year, the cover of the band's (more)...
- 9/27/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Rating: 3/5
Writer: Roddy Bogawa
Director: Roddy Bogawa
Cast: Storm Thorgerson
The images created by influential photographer Storm Thorgerson have been a part of our pop culture landscape for over four decades. His meticulous eye has brought to life some of the most iconic album covers, most of which leave the lasting impression of greatness. He has a particular view of the world, an almost obsessive work ethic, and a gruff nature that tends to attract and alienate those closest to him. He may be polarizing, but his art never is.
Read more on SXSW 2011 Review: Taken By Storm: The Art Of Storm Thorgerson And Hipgnosis…...
Writer: Roddy Bogawa
Director: Roddy Bogawa
Cast: Storm Thorgerson
The images created by influential photographer Storm Thorgerson have been a part of our pop culture landscape for over four decades. His meticulous eye has brought to life some of the most iconic album covers, most of which leave the lasting impression of greatness. He has a particular view of the world, an almost obsessive work ethic, and a gruff nature that tends to attract and alienate those closest to him. He may be polarizing, but his art never is.
Read more on SXSW 2011 Review: Taken By Storm: The Art Of Storm Thorgerson And Hipgnosis…...
- 3/22/2011
- by Gwen Reyes
- GordonandtheWhale
When I was a youngster, jamming out in my bedroom to the staples of classic rock, I would stare at some of the iconic album covers, convinced they were layered, important messages about a different reality. I wished I could know the secrets of how these images were created, for surely it would be an amazing story.
Turns out, not so much.
Storm Thorgerson, a quite creative photographer, designer and principle member of the rock-art group Hipgnosis, definitely has an amazing eye. He just doesn't have that interesting of a story to tell.
Devotees of the record jacket may get a kick out of learning of Hipgnosis' business practices - or how bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Genesis chose their covers - but non-fans will find not much to ooh and aah over. I wish I could tell you that Thorgerson's process was all that innovative, but other...
Turns out, not so much.
Storm Thorgerson, a quite creative photographer, designer and principle member of the rock-art group Hipgnosis, definitely has an amazing eye. He just doesn't have that interesting of a story to tell.
Devotees of the record jacket may get a kick out of learning of Hipgnosis' business practices - or how bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Genesis chose their covers - but non-fans will find not much to ooh and aah over. I wish I could tell you that Thorgerson's process was all that innovative, but other...
- 3/14/2011
- UGO Movies
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.