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Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for Led Zeppelin, Wishbone Ash, Phish, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Al Stewart, Scorpions, 10cc, UFO, Peter Gabriel, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis ...
- Graphic designer, music video director
- 18 April 2013 (aged 69), London, England
Apr 18, 2013 · Storm Thorgerson, who has died aged 69 after suffering from cancer, was "the best album designer in the world" according to the writer Douglas Adams, and it was an assessment shared by generations ...
- Adam Sweeting
Apr 19, 2013 · The British graphic designer, who created the iconic covers for 'Dark Side of the Moon,' 'Animals' and 'Wish You Were Here' among many other rock bands, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. He met Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Syd Barrett in grade school and formed the graphic art group Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell.
Apr 19, 2013 · Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
Learn about the life and work of Storm Thorgerson, the graphic artist who designed many iconic album covers for Pink Floyd and other artists, such as The Dark Side Of The Moon, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis. Discover his influences, techniques, and personal background, and how he became a film-maker and a founder of StormStudios.
Apr 19, 2013 · Storm Thorgerson's pictures created a world of illusions, visual puns, conundrums and strange narratives, often set in a surreal landscape occupied by people and objects carefully composed in ...
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Apr 19, 2013 · No band has trusted Thorgerson more during the past 30 years than Pink Floyd, whose relationship with the designer dates back nearly five decades to Cambridge, England, where Thorgerson grew up with Floyd’s original band leader Syd Barrett, who was a year behind him in school, and former bassist Roger Waters, who was a year ahead.
