The Vinyl record celebrating for years, a Revival is certainly due to the fact, that it is great to hold the record cover in the hands. Especially legendary record sleeves come out of the Design firm Hipgnosis.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Peter Gabriel – Scratch (1978)
Hipgnosis had already worked for Genesis: A masterpiece for the cover artwork of the double album “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”. After his exit, Peter Gabriel also worked for his solo albums with Hipgnosis. Actually, he had given the LPs no title. The finally came unofficially from Fans and the press. Why this Album is called “Scratch”, is clear.
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Ten album covers that have made history
AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
Black bars are used in tabloid Newspapers, if the people are to be made unrecognizable, because everyone has to hide from you anything. The title of the album, on German about “Crooked things turned for the low, low price” suggests that the people portrayed in the Dirt on the Plug. Also if you look all so colorful and neat.
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Ten album covers that have made history
10cc – How Dare You (1976)
10cc were similar eccentric like the Hipgnosis-boys. On the front of your album, you see a on the phone bickering couple, separated by a diagonal cut. With the Band it has nothing to do, but with a title on the plate: “Don’t Hang Up”. One opens the Album, the image will appear (above), which, if you look at today’s cell phone age, how a prophecy works.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Led Zeppelin – Presence (1976)
The image is a Collage from a photo of a boat show with a Studio photography. The black object is painted, two-dimensional, even blacker, and this is all the more disconcerting it seems. Template was a real plastic, which resembled the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 – a space Odyssey”. Only it was twisted here.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Fantastic fun this was, as Powell and Thorgerson Pink Floyd suggested to take simply a couple of cows as a motif for the plate. Waters and co. were immediately agreed. The record company was appalled. Nevertheless, the album sold sensational. There was a clever campaign: advertising for the posters with the cow, until the publication of the Band and the title were revealed.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
“No more cows”, it was said, as the Pink Floyd on the Cover of your 8. Studio album thought. By coincidence, discovered by Powell and Thorgerson the light effect, which is caused by the Prism. She flipped in the physics books, and implemented the Prism effect for the legendary album cover. Enthusiasm for the Band, record company and audience. The music of the Album is, and remains, legendary.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
In 1975, there were no digital photo post-processing. The man in the photo is burned in fact. “We put him a dozen Times in the fire, until finally, a gust of wind hit him and the flames in the face of the injured,” says Powell later. For the Stuntman of the day then was gone, but the photo he had, fortunately, in the box.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
The inflatable rubber pig between the chimneys was real. And it caused a commotion. During the photo session crack the anchoring, the pig actually flew away and headed to the London Heathrow airport. Fortunately, there were no problems. But later, a farmer, a huge pink pig have put his cows in fear and terror.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Wishbone Ash – New England (1976)
The image shows only a portion of the cover. The man is another man who is watching, like the other tips of the spear. The sexual connotation is no coincidence. The photographer liked men. It of allusions and double-provoked ambiguities. Wishbone Ash had just ventured a new beginning and found this bold photo to suit your project, to plunge into new adventures.
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Ten album covers that have made history
10cc – Bloody Tourists (1978)
A rock group on Tour: a Tourist who travels without something. The airport is rushing to the airport and just hotel rooms, concert halls, and locker rooms. Has so much of his Route in his head that he takes the beauty of the beach, and even the pretty woman in the water not true. So the Band felt and Hipgnosis has brought it to the point.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Peter Gabriel – Scratch (1978)
Hipgnosis had already worked for Genesis: A masterpiece for the cover artwork of the double album “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”. After his exit, Peter Gabriel also worked for his solo albums with Hipgnosis. Actually, he had given the LPs no title. The finally came unofficially from Fans and the press. Why this Album is called “Scratch”, is clear.
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Ten album covers that have made history
AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
Black bars are used in tabloid Newspapers, if the people are to be made unrecognizable, because everyone has to hide from you anything. The title of the album, on German about “Crooked things turned for the low, low price” suggests that the people portrayed in the Dirt on the Plug. Also if you look all so colorful and neat.
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Ten album covers that have made history
10cc – How Dare You (1976)
10cc were similar eccentric like the Hipgnosis-boys. On the front of your album, you see a on the phone bickering couple, separated by a diagonal cut. With the Band it has nothing to do, but with a title on the plate: “Don’t Hang Up”. One opens the Album, the image will appear (above), which, if you look at today’s cell phone age, how a prophecy works.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Led Zeppelin – Presence (1976)
The image is a Collage from a photo of a boat show with a Studio photography. The black object is painted, two-dimensional, even blacker, and this is all the more disconcerting it seems. Template was a real plastic, which resembled the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 – a space Odyssey”. Only it was twisted here.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Fantastic fun this was, as Powell and Thorgerson Pink Floyd suggested to take simply a couple of cows as a motif for the plate. Waters and co. were immediately agreed. The record company was appalled. Nevertheless, the album sold sensational. There was a clever campaign: advertising for the posters with the cow, until the publication of the Band and the title were revealed.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
“No more cows”, it was said, as the Pink Floyd on the Cover of your 8. Studio album thought. By coincidence, discovered by Powell and Thorgerson the light effect, which is caused by the Prism. She flipped in the physics books, and implemented the Prism effect for the legendary album cover. Enthusiasm for the Band, record company and audience. The music of the Album is, and remains, legendary.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
In 1975, there were no digital photo post-processing. The man in the photo is burned in fact. “We put him a dozen Times in the fire, until finally, a gust of wind hit him and the flames in the face of the injured,” says Powell later. For the Stuntman of the day then was gone, but the photo he had, fortunately, in the box.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
The inflatable rubber pig between the chimneys was real. And it caused a commotion. During the photo session crack the anchoring, the pig actually flew away and headed to the London Heathrow airport. Fortunately, there were no problems. But later, a farmer, a huge pink pig have put his cows in fear and terror.
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Ten album covers that have made history
Wishbone Ash – New England (1976)
The image shows only a portion of the cover. The man is another man who is watching, like the other tips of the spear. The sexual connotation is no coincidence. The photographer liked men. It of allusions and double-provoked ambiguities. Wishbone Ash had just ventured a new beginning and found this bold photo to suit your project, to plunge into new adventures.
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Ten album covers that have made history
10cc – Bloody Tourists (1978)
A rock group on Tour: a Tourist who travels without something. The airport is rushing to the airport and just hotel rooms, concert halls, and locker rooms. Has so much of his Route in his head that he takes the beauty of the beach, and even the pretty woman in the water not true. So the Band felt and Hipgnosis has brought it to the point.
Two men in suit on a large production site. Behind them is a pale blue sky shines. The two men shake hands. One of them is burning. Even on the head. This photo is one of the most famous album covers of all time. The Artwork for Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” comes from the legendary British photo-Design Studio “Hipgnosis”. It was founded in 1968 by Aubrey Powell and Storm thorgerson – and very quickly got around in the music scene, the London-based Studio was able to manufacture special Cover. The Bands that could afford to do, ran Hipgnosis, the doors.
The album cover “Wish You Were Here” (1975) by Pink Floyd
1968 – the cultural Revolution
Overall, designed, Powell, Thorgerson and your growing Team on the 350 plate cover – some of them wrote not only because of their musical content in music history, but also because of their exceptional Designs. 1968 was the year in which the cultural landscape changed permanently. The cultural revolt of the wild ‘ 68 had reached the art a long time ago and also became increasingly evident in the Design of record covers.
Here, the Band had to be nicely prepared on the plate cover. The message of the music stand in the foreground. Or just a fancy motif. And suddenly, all forms of artistic expression and freedoms were possible. Hipgnosis set many new standards, was loved by musicians and record companies hated: How should you apply an Album, where the Band was?
Band portrait of the Rolling Stones for a record cover to profane…
Playground Pink Floyd
Powell and Thorgerson provided a seemingly inexhaustible creativity of the day: No idea was too bold. Simple portraits were too boring. This made them even, but playful, like on Pink Floyd’s “Ummagumma” (1969), where the musicians are portrayed in various poses as a surreal “mirror in the mirror”.
The first Cover of the Hipgnosis-forge was the Pink Floyd album “A Saucerful Of Secrets”. We all knew each other from school days and was a close friend. Between 1967 and 1977, they created ten Covers for Pink Floyd.
The cow on Pink Floyd’s Album “Atom Heart Mother” had nothing to do with the Band or the contents of the plate. You should attract attention. She did. Although no band name on it, it was quite clear that it is the store in 1970 in the plate according to the LP with the cows on it had to ask to have the new Pink Floyd-Album.
An eye-catcher, it had to be
In the case of “The Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973) finally, absolutely no frills should be on the Cover. The Band stood still for a long time in front of your Zenith, but played with elaborate light shows on the stage of distract yourself. How should one implement such an attitude in art? Powell and Thorgerson had to ponder a lot, until they discovered the Prism. Pure key problem, on a black Background set the scene – and the famous Cover was created.
Two years later, Wish You Were Here “followed”. Here, it was a rip off in the music industry. Already in the 1970s, it was for Deals, to earn the most money and the one or the other has burned.
The Text of “Have a Cigar” testifies: “Come in, Boy, grab a cigar, you will go far, you’re going to be immortal, they will love you, the Band is fantastic, just tell me, who of you is Pink?”
The record company was less than enthusiastic: The plate cover of the album “Atom Heart Mother” (1970)
“The Me-Too people would call against Hipgnosis to arms”
Much of what made Hipgnosis in front of 40, 50 years, would no longer be possible today. The plate cover of “Lovedrive” by the Scorpions. The Band had a default: Sex, women, and Disturbing should be on the Cover. This is what happened: A well-situated Couple sitting in the back seat of a car, the woman is stuck with the chest exposed, on a large piece of chewing gum. The man pulls him in long pink strips of her way.
In 1979, this was of course a scandal, but not because of misogyny, but because of the subject as such. In a “mirror”Interview, Powell said last June: “It’s supposed to be a surreal scene, a bizarre incident. Nowadays, a motive would be so unimaginable to the Me-Too people would call against Hipgnosis to the weapons.” The Scorpions loved to at least the Cover.
Also, the record sleeve for Led Zeppelin’s Album “Houses Of The Holy” would no longer be conceivable today. Naked children climbing around on a surreal rocky landscape (the “Giant’s Causeway” in Northern Ireland was provided with surreal colors, and a red sky). Although the Cover is famous around the world, the nakedness of the blond girl today, strange.
Led Zeppelin were impressed by Hipgnosis
16 Years Of Music History
Up to 1984, produced by Hipgnosis record covers, the last Cover for The Alan Parson’s Project (“Ammonia Avenue”), Barry Gibb (“New Voyager”) and David Gilmour (“About Face”). 30. September starts in Berlin’s the Browse Gallery, an exhibition with the title “Daring to dream. 50 Years Of Hipgnosis”.
If you want to learn more about the art of London-based Design collective, the book “Vinyl. Cover. Album. Type” is recommended. Here is the entire Hipgnosis’s recorded catalog. To be told a lot of albums Aubrey Powell, the emergence of stories that are exciting, surprising and often very funny. Peter Gabriel comes to word and other Hipgnosis artists.
The book leads to endless scrolling, and Discover, and for sure one or the other will look after the reading at home and in the plate Cabinet, whether a Hipgnosis-disc is the Album, take in Hand, it to expand and notice that neither a CD or even a music streaming service can convey the feeling you had at that time, after the purchase of a gramophone record While the needle for the first Time by the virgin-groove, grub, was folding the plate cover, awesome, considered, studied, and read. The images of Hipgnosis made this experience even more intense.
Aubrey Powell: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art Hipgnosis – the complete works”, 320 pages. Publisher Of Precious Books. The Hipgnosis exhibition in Berlin until 28. October 2018.