I shot this in a retro cafe in Covent Garden for the inner sleeve of Led Zeppelin’s Presence album but it didn’t make the cut on the grounds of not being 1950s enough. However it has appeared nearly 50 Years later in the Hipgnosis Retrospective at the Groninger Museum, Holland 2023.
https://www.groningermuseum.nl/kunst/tentoonstellingen/hipgnosis
Read MoreAn early job assisting Storm at Hipgnosis. Keith Moon - soft-porn style with lots of warming filters. For the Who’s Bellboy tour programme. Designed by Richard Evans.
Moon on tour. In my teens I loved the Who, they were the first live band I saw . At the Old Welsh Harp pub in Hendon when I was 16.
I’d forgotten I’d taken this for the ‘Wings At the Speed of Sound’ songbook. A smashed picture frame with crumpled photo of Paul that had been taken by Linda McCartney - at the time the closest I’d come to actually photographing Paul.
Wings - Beware my Love - from Wings at the Speed of Sound songbook.
Stian must be the number one Hipgnosis fan and collector, he forwarded this set of images created by artists associated with Hipgnosis telling the Beatle’s Apple Story. circa 1975
The image of school girls was one of my earliest experience working with Storm, this time as an assistant. Shot in Hammersmith with drama students their dresses were drenched in water apparently having seen the Beatles pass by, referring to the ‘wet seats’ after a Beatle’s concert it’s perhaps not an image that would be made now.
I shot the image of the lover’s in the Tiptree Orchard, Essex, showing the innocence of Apple before greed, rip-offs and predatory businessmen - as depicted by the overlaid black and white pics - came into play
The story with my contribution is told in the link below:
http://internationaltimes.it/up-in-smoke-the-failed-dreams-of-battersea-power-station
1970s
checking proof prints of Rick Wright's cover 'Wet Dream'
This fascinating music industry database lists some of the album covers I shot.
Po (Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis) giving a fascinating talk on album cover design and history at the V&A. And reviewing his (and a little bit of my) work. Part of the Pink Floyd's Mortal Remains, exhibition. With my college friend Howard Bartrop, taker of the iconic Animals Power Station cover image.
I was contacted by a french writer about the Crooked Mile cover I shot for Microdisney back in the 1980s. It's featured here, scroll down through the french bit to get the english translation. No one gives much thought to the hundreds of advertising images I shot, the album covers are frequently reviewed. Gives a form of longevity and illusion of immortality.
http://www.soul-kitchen.fr/76010-1987-2017-lattraction-microdisney
We get excited about digital tech - but this is scanned from a glass neg shot in 1937 found in a box in an attic.
