You have to be an old fart to remember most of these, but…
Corbijn’s documentary begins in black and white, with shots of a mysterious middle-aged man with shaved thinning hair and wearing expensive, fashionable black eyeglasses while carrying what looks like a very heavy, very large package on his back stenciled HIPGNOSIS. We hear his footprints as he shuffles past a cemetery and enters a building’s hallway and sits down. After the door closes, Pink Floyd’s elegiac “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” fades in. He then wanders to the end of the hallway where the word HIPGNOSIS has been splashed on the wall, graffiti-style.
Full article, HERE, from PJ Media
Hipgnosis was THE art house in the 70s for album covers, and this documentary brought back a lot of memories of the days when I could still ‘hear’ music…
Sigh…
I remember when I bought albums based on the cover art.
A book by it’s cover.
It was the desired result for them.
But I was rarely disappointed.
Interesting article. Thanks.
Back in the day when bands wouldn’t announce a new album. It would just show up on the shelves in the stores and the artwork would grab you in an instant and you’d buy it and take it home.
CD’s have really destroyed the album art world.
Online sales have made it worse.
Ed- Yep!
John- Great point, just like thumbnails of book covers…sigh