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| Originally Posted by New Noise Storm Thorgeson hasn't always been such a genius...
"...But it is no worse than my first meeting with an artist from Hipgnosis, who were the people that designed Pink Floyd's covers. We had commissioned them to design Houses of the Holy, and this guy Storm Thorgerson came in carrying this picture of an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it. I said, "what the hell does that have to do with anything?" and he said, "Racket..don't you get it?" I said, "Are you trying to imply thata our music is a 'racket'? Get out!" We never saw him again."
-Jimmy Page,
Guitar World Magazine
January 1998 |
I believe Hipgnosis did most of their later covers. I know they did "Houses of the Holy" and "Presence" has Storm Thorgeson's fingerprints all over it. It's really similar to "WYWH" in its layout. I'm not sure about "Physical Graffiti" but "In Through the Out Door" was Hipgnosis again, including the plain, brown wrapper it originally came packaged in. (An idea PF used first for "WYWH", which shipped in black cellophane with only a sticker.)