{"id":5982,"date":"2015-02-04T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:41:28","slug":"pink-floyd-designer-aubrey-powell-coming-to-floydian-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/02\/pink-floyd-designer-aubrey-powell-coming-to-floydian-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd designer Aubrey Powell coming to &#8220;Floydian Slip&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aubrey &#8216;Po&#8217; Powell<\/strong>, co-founder of prolific album sleeve design team <strong>Hipgnosis<\/strong>, will join host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/radio-show\/craig-bailey.php\"><strong>Craig Bailey<\/strong><\/a> on &#8220;Floydian Slip&#8221; Show #984, airing Feb. 16-22.<\/p>\n<p>Hipgnosis designed nearly every Floyd sleeve starting with 1968&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/albums\/album.php?id=2\">&#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets,&#8221;<\/a> as well as iconic sleeves for other bands such as <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, <strong>Genesis<\/strong>, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, <strong>10cc<\/strong>, <strong>Al Stewart<\/strong>, <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong>, <strong>Alan Parsons Project<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Powell knew members of Floyd before the band formed, and shared a flat for a period of time with band co-founder <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Powell&#8217;s new book is &#8220;Hipgnosis: Portraits&#8221; from <strong>Thames &amp; Hudson<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll give away copies of the book on Show #984.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming audio and a transcript of the talk will be available on the &#8220;Floydian Slip&#8221; website beginning Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Past guests on the program include Floyd drummer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/nick-mason.php\">Nick Mason<\/a><\/strong>, illustrator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/gerald-scarfe.php\">Gerald Scarfe<\/a><\/strong>, composer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/ron-geesin.php\">Ron Geesin<\/a><\/strong>, producer\/engineer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/andy-jackson.php\">Andy Jackson<\/a><\/strong>, and Powell&#8217;s Hipgnosis partner <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/storm-thorgerson.php\">Storm Thorgerson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey &#8216;Po&#8217; Powell, co-founder of prolific album sleeve design team Hipgnosis, will join host Craig Bailey on &#8220;Floydian Slip&#8221; Show #984, airing Feb. 16-22. Hipgnosis designed nearly every Floyd sleeve starting with 1968&#8217;s &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets,&#8221; as well as iconic sleeves for other bands such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Paul McCartney, 10cc, Al Stewart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aubrey-powell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","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=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}