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Throughout his esteemed career, Storm Thorgerson revolutionized the art of the album cover. For nearly five decades, Thorgerson designed covers for some of the most famous rock-and-roll bands in the world, including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Genesis, the Cranberries, Styx, and many more. His designs transitioned the art form into a new era, one that strayed from simple photos of the artist and focused instead on images that reflected the music. Using an extraordinary coupling of the exotic, the extravagant, and the improvised, Thorgerson conveyed a sense of magic and wonder in each of his distinctive album covers. The Gathering Storm: A Quartet in Several Parts exhibits over 100 of Thorgerson’s many conceptual masterpieces—including his acclaimed covers for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, Led Zepplin’s Houses of the Holy and In Through the Out Door, and his more recent work for Muse’s Absolution. Complete with Thorgenson’s personal artwork, sketches, and commentary, this unique book is an unreplicable gem that will thrill fans of art, photography, and music alike.

Features almost all Pink Floyd's iconic album covers, posters, singles bags, a selection of band photos, booklet pages and rough artwork that developed into iconic designs. This new edition incorporates an additional 32 pages of material used in re-issues created since 2007.

Popular music both reflects and affects its period, and the best illustration of this is the album cover. Here, then, is a visual record of our changing times. New Wave, Punk, Heavy Metal and Reggae are just a few of the variations on the pop theme fighting for the record buyer's attention. These movements, along with Jazz, Classical, the Japanese influence and the growth of picture bags for singles are included with the fads, trends, musical styles and occasional flashes of pure inspiration covered in this book's more than 500 full colour sleeve reproductions and annotated with a concise commentary.

1977 Paper Tiger 'limpback' (paperback) edition (Dragon's World Limited, UK). ISBN: 0891040749. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-71713. Minor shelfwear on edges. Ships from the UK.