![]() Fearing that the Russians may beat them to finding out what this unidentified object is, President John F Kennedy pushes for NASA to land men on the moon to investigate. In 1961, the crash of the Ark on the moon is detected by NASA. However, the ship was hit by enemy missiles, and the ship and its crew were lost into the far reaches of space. Piloted by the great Autobot leader named Sentinel Prime ( Leonard Nimoy), the ship was said to contain special items that could help the Autobots win the war over the Decepticons. After graphic designer George Hardie created the artwork based on Thorgerson's idea, Hipgnosis presented the prism design along with some others ideas to the band (including a design that featured the Marvel Comics hero the Silver Surfer).During the final days of the war that devastated the planet Cybertron, a spacecraft known as The Ark attempted to escape. As he would later explain to Rolling Stone, the traditional triangular shape of a prism also fascinated him because the triangle, " which is a symbol of thought and ambition, was very much a subject of Roger’s lyrics" on The Dark Side of the Moon (which he had listened to in unreleased form as he pondered design ideas). One night, Thorgerson showed Powell a black-and-white photograph of a prism with a color beam projected through it - an image he’d also noticed in a physics textbook. (Hipgnosis had been given minimal creative direction by the band other than a suggestion by Wright to “do something clean, elegant and graphic.”) As discussed in Mark Blake’s Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, the original design emerged from Powell’s and Thorgerson’s practice of conducting brainstorming sessions that stretched from late evening until 4:00 a.m. The Dark Side of the Moon design was another product of the fertile creative team of Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis, who were responsible for creating some of rock’s most memorable album covers, such as Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. The album remained on the Billboard charts 741 weeks. The mystique helped transform Pink Floyd into major stars. Pink Floyd were like magicians who don't reveal their secrets. ![]() None of the band members (Waters lead guitarist David Gilmour drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright) offered an explanation, leaving it up to fans to create their own meanings, a process that required repeated album listens and discussion with other fans. ![]() In context of intense songs like “Time” and “Us and Them,” what did the album cover mean, exactly? The mystery deepened when you studied the poster and stickers of pyramid shapes found inside the album sleeve. Listening to the album for the first time and exploring the album art was like getting immersed in a mystery whose elements consisted of trippy, atmospheric music coupled with bassist Roger Waters’ deeply personal lyrics exploring themes of alienation, loss, and materialism. The cover, depicting white light passing through a prism to form the bright colors of the spectrum against a black field, invited listeners to explore the music inside (and still does). At the time, Pink Floyd was on the cusp of becoming a mainstream success. The Dark Side of the Moon cover art created intrigue when the album landed in record stores in March 1973. Media coverage of the gallery opening has cast a spotlight once again on an album cover that endures as a powerful example of visual storytelling. ![]() The art of The Dark Side of the Moon is part a newly opened gallery the Victoria & Albert Museum, Their Mortal Remains, devoted to the visual history of Pink Floyd. The Dark Side of the Moon is not only one of the greatest albums ever made, its cover has become a visual icon for Pink Floyd itself - a quiet, mysterious team of four musicians who let their music and visual stories speak for them. Nowhere is the power of Pink Floyd’s visual appeal more apparent than the cover for the album The Dark Side of the Moon, released 44 years ago. The distinction between eye candy and visual storytelling can be seen in the album cover art of Pink Floyd, a band that would have been a perfect match for the age of Instagram had it emerged today.Īt the height of Pink Floyd’s popularity in the 1970s, the Floyd’s visually arresting album covers and iconography complemented the artistry of its music and generated buzz that would make the Word of Mouth Marketing Association proud. Eye candy consists of pretty pictures that may mean nothing. ![]()
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