{"id":21,"date":"2008-10-16T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~ccb\/fs\/pink-floyd-news\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:47:45","slug":"new-book-to-feature-album-art-of-hipgnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2008\/10\/new-book-to-feature-album-art-of-hipgnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"New book to feature album art of Hipgnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>PictureBox<\/strong> will publish &#8220;For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis,&#8221; a coffee-table book featuring the work of the design team responsible for nearly all of Pink Floyd&#8217;s album covers.<\/p>\n<p>The book will feature more than 60 package designs for bands such as <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, <strong>Genesis<\/strong>, <strong>10cc<\/strong>, <strong>Yes<\/strong>, <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>, <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong>, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, <strong>Styx<\/strong>, and, of course, Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Formed by <strong>Storm Thorgerson<\/strong> and <strong>Aubrey Powell<\/strong> in 1968, the group&#8217;s first cover for Floyd was &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; that same year.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong>, along with other musicians, artists and designers, contribute essays to the book, which is written \u2014 or, as Thorgerson told Floydian Slip in a 1997 interview, &#8220;&#8216;compiled,&#8217; I think is a better word than &#8216;written&#8217; \u2014 by Thorgerson and Powell.<\/p>\n<p>The 224-page book comes out in hardcover Dec. 1, with a cover price of $45. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981562213?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=floydsliptm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0981562213\">Pre-order your copy for less than $30 online now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PictureBox will publish &#8220;For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis,&#8221; a coffee-table book featuring the work of the design team responsible for nearly all of Pink Floyd&#8217;s album covers. The book will feature more than 60 package designs for bands such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}