{"id":11110,"date":"2022-11-24T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2022-11-24T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:44:39","slug":"new-book-about-album-sleeve-designers-hipgnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2022\/11\/new-book-about-album-sleeve-designers-hipgnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"New book about album sleeve designers Hipgnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blake-book.jpg\"><\/a><strong>Eight Nine Books<\/strong> will publish &#8220;Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of <strong>Hipgnosis<\/strong>&#8221; by <strong>Mark Blake<\/strong> Feb. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by <strong>Storm Thorgerson<\/strong> and <strong>Aubrey &#8220;Po&#8221; Powell<\/strong> in the late-&#8217;60s, the first album sleeve the agency designed was <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968). The firm went on to design many covers for Floyd, as well as iconic artwork for <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, <strong>Genesis<\/strong>, <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>, <strong>10cc<\/strong>, <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Blake, whose work has appeared in <strong>Prog<\/strong> and <strong>Classic Rock<\/strong> magazines, is the author of &#8220;Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd&#8221; (2007) as well as other titles about bands such as <strong>The Who<\/strong> and <strong>Queen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>, <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> and <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> all contribute exclusive commentary to the new book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Nine Books will publish &#8220;Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis&#8221; by Mark Blake Feb. 2. Founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey &#8220;Po&#8221; Powell in the late-&#8217;60s, the first album sleeve the agency designed was Pink Floyd&#8216;s &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968). The firm went on to design many covers for Floyd, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}