Thorgerson died in 2013, aged 70 – having designed artwork for the likes of Biffy Clyro, The Mars Volta, Yourcodenameis:milo and Muse in the latter part of his life.Pink Floyd was a British Psychedelic and Progressive Rock band which formed in 1964. The film will be available as a collector’s edition Blu-ray on August 7. ‘Squaring The Circle: The Story Of Hipgnosis’ – hitting cinemas in July. Visit here for tickets and more information.
Squaring The Circle will premiere at Sundance Film Festival on July 7, before being released in UK cinemas and on demand from July 14. Producers include Trish D Chetty, former Sony Music UK Chairman and CEO Ged Doherty, as well as Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd described Hipgnosis as: “Scourge of management, record companies and album sleeve printers champion of bands, music, great ideas and high, infuriatingly high standards defender of the art over commerce at all times.” “It’s the poor man’s art collection,” going on to explain how Hipgnosis’ work as “stood the test of time”. What I love about vinyl is the artwork,” said Gallagher in the trailer. Noel Gallager in ‘Squaring The Circle: The Story Of Hipgnosis’ – hitting cinemas in July. Squaring The Circle is made up of archive and new footage, along with brand new interviews with 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 many more – as well as telling the infamous story of flying a pig over Battersea Power Station for Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’. They never played a note, but they changed music.” They did great things they did silly things.
“During this period, record companies didn’t dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like – Storm and Po did.
“They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularised music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot centre of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music. The film’s synopsis reads how Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell “formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the ’60s and became rock royalty during the boom time of the ’70s.
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