Aubrey Powell co-founded the album cover design agency Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. The company was at the vanguard of rock iconography, creating some of the most innovative and surreal record cover art of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Nominated five times for a Grammy Award, Hipgnosis created more than 400 album covers for many of the biggest rock bands of the era, including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney. Powell is currently the Creative Director for Pink Floyd. He is the author of Hipgnosis Portraits and Vinyl • Album • Cover • Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.

'Powell is an engaging raconteur' - Literary Review

• Preface – The Initial SparkSyd Barrett – Laying Ghosts To RestSpace CowboysWorking With Animals – Dead Or AliveOne Giant Step – Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The HolyGoing Over To The Dark SidePeter Gabriel – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Going It AlonePaul McCartney – Venus And Mars10cc – Life Is A MinestronePink Floyd – Wish You Were HereAmericana – A Brutal LandscapeThe Grand TourPeter Grant – The GatekeeperIf Pigs Could Fly – Pink Floyd, AnimalsMoroccan RollOn High With Paul McCartneyMiami Vice/Hawaii Versa – 10cc, Look Hear? (or: Are You Normal)Tragedy – Barry GibbDesigns That Slipped Through The NetThe Icing On The Cake – Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains

Aubrey Powell co-founded the album cover design agency Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968. The company was at the vanguard of rock iconography, creating some of the most innovative and surreal record cover art of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Nominated five times for a Grammy Award, Hipgnosis created more than 400 album covers for many of the biggest rock bands of the era, including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney. Powell is currently the Creative Director for Pink Floyd. He is the author of Hipgnosis Portraits and Vinyl • Album • Cover • Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.

'Powell is an engaging raconteur' - Literary Review

• Preface – The Initial SparkSyd Barrett – Laying Ghosts To RestSpace CowboysWorking With Animals – Dead Or AliveOne Giant Step – Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The HolyGoing Over To The Dark SidePeter Gabriel – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Going It AlonePaul McCartney – Venus And Mars10cc – Life Is A MinestronePink Floyd – Wish You Were HereAmericana – A Brutal LandscapeThe Grand TourPeter Grant – The GatekeeperIf Pigs Could Fly – Pink Floyd, AnimalsMoroccan RollOn High With Paul McCartneyMiami Vice/Hawaii Versa – 10cc, Look Hear? (or: Are You Normal)Tragedy – Barry GibbDesigns That Slipped Through The NetThe Icing On The Cake – Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains