The 70s would have been impossible without Storm and Po.Īlthough Hipnosis later picked up other members such as Throbbing Gristle’s Peter Christopherson, Corbijn’s film focuses on Thorgerson and Powell. Their clients are a Who’s Who? of the Prog-Rock decade Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Def Leppard, AC/DC and the list goes on. Soon they were working with everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul McCartney. It was the cow on the front of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother in 1970 that really catapulted the duo to stardom. The album’s success led to a partnership between Hipgnosis and Pink Floyd that was to last until the early 1980s. The result was perfect for 1968 and the psychedelic artwork evoked acid trips and the light shows at UFO, the legendary club where the band played in its early days. When the band were preparing to release their second album, Storm persuaded them to let Hipgnosis design the cover. They hung out with Syd Barrett and the rest of early Pink Floyd. But when the police arrived and all the revellers spilled out the back door, Po stayed behind with his new friend Storm Thorgerson who lived in the house with his Bohemian mother. The two boys became best friends and then became the founding members of Hipgnosis. Po immediately felt at home in the dope-heavy atmosphere. Their histories overlap from the moment Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell joined in the parties that he saw happening across his terraced street in Cambridge. In a way, Squaring the Circle (square album covers for circular records) is as much a biography of Pink Floyd as it is Hipgnosis. Anton Corbijn’s stylish film tells Hipgnosis’s story. This iconic artwork, forever to be seen on t-shirts, was created by Hipgnosis, who designed many of the familiar Prog-Rock album covers of the 1970s. The artwork was something to be studied while the record played, and music and cover would become synonymous like that triangle and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Older readers will remember album covers and how they were almost as important as the music pressed onto the vinyl inside.
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