![]() “We loved it, it looked great,” he says in the film, directed by Anton Corbijn and including contributions from a roll-call of Seventies titans, from McCartney to Jimmy Page and Dave Gilmour. “I was stuck up there for about six hours.”īack on terra firma, McCartney pronounced himself pleased with the image that adorned the cover of his first post-Beatles compilation. And there I am, stuck on an area about the size of an average person’s sitting room, with a 10,000 foot drop all around me… And I completely have a phobia about heights.” Still, Powell, true to reputation, was nothing if not rigorous. “We had to jump off,” the designer continues in the film, “tak this 70lb statue. “So we took a helicopter up, which could only land on the edge,” remembers Aubrey “Po” Powell in Squaring the Circle, a new documentary about Hipgnosis, the legendary graphic design company he co-founded in 1967 alongside Storm Thorgerson. When he realised that might be impractical, McCartney lowered his expectations. But he wanted the chryselephantine piece, by Art Deco sculptor Demétre Chiparus, to be photographed “somewhere really special”. For the cover art of his next album, 1978 compilation Wings Greatest, he was keen to use a statue of Semiramis, Queen of Babylon, that he’d spotted at Christie’s. Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.Paul McCartney had an idea. Published By – World Copyrights Published By – Lupus Music Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Recorded At – EMI Studios Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Label: Harvest – SHVL 781, Harvest – 1E 062 ∘ 04550 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: UK Released: Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock Tracklist Atom Heart Mother A.a Father's Shout A.b Breast Milky A.c Mother Fore A.d Funky Dung A.e Mind Your Throats Please A.f Remergence B1 If B2 Summer '68 B3 Fat Old Sun Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast B4.a Rise And Shine B4.b Sunny Side Up B4.c Morning Glory Companies, etc. Item: 303391933932 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1st with Drip Loop) LP VINYL SHVL 781 UK. ![]()
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