Hipgnosis is The Beatles of album cover art — nobody has ever done it better than the British design firm founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Their first cover was Pink Floyd’s 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets and their last was Led Zeppelin’s Coda, released in 1982. There’s quite a bit of poetry in that. In their fifteen years together the firm produced many of the most iconic covers in music history. Below is a gallery of all 190 Hipgnosis covers (Note: I haven’t found an image of Hignosis’s 48th album cover, 1972’s self-titled Danta.)
For more information check out the book For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis.
So many burnt into my noggin images here! Well done!
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Hi there,
Here’s the Danta cover:
http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/danta.html
PS: There are some errors/missing covers in your list. Compare with my site to find out which ones…
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The Brotherhood of the Record Geek comes through again. Thanks very much for the use of your Danta cover. You guys need to check out Stian’s site at http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com. It’s the real deal!
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Utterly fantastic work! I think however that Peter Saville pretty handily squeaks by them as the best, at least in my subjective opinion🙂
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There are actually quite a few who squeak by Storm and the boy, so you have to forgive the hyperbole🙂
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Hi. Nice list. You might be interested in this site which talks about how some of these were retouched. It’s my father’s, who isn’t great at the self-promotion lark. Technical, and for the uber-geeks only, I suspect, but still, an interesting resource : http://www.richardmanning.co.uk/hipgnosis-album-cover-artwork
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Absolutely brilliant. Thank you!
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yeah he was great !! he did a lot of master pieces !!
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Where is T.Rex’s Electric Warrior?
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Oh I missed it sorry😀
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