![]() Can you share a story that didn’t make the film? The film would have run for three hours if we'd done everything! But there was a lovely story Jimmy Page told about how I went up to see him with some ideas, and Storm tucked another idea under my arm. It was easy to concoct a timeline and Trish Chetty, who wrote the script, was very diligent because people like Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page are sticklers for the truth. I just had to look at my passport, ‘Oh, that stamp says 15th July 1977, I was in California…’. I'm a hoarder – I collected bus tickets, all my passports – so I knew exactly where I was when I photographed anything to do with Hipgnosis. There’s obviously a lot of reflection in Squaring the Circle, can you speak on that sense of nostalgia? I've written several books on Hipgnosis, so consequently the stories were always very fresh in my mind. ![]() It was the most thrown-together thing we’ve ever done.Hi Po. Pink Floyd would make better albums, but it remains the apotheosis of their experimental era – or as guitarist David Gilmour later described it, “Our weird shit.” ![]() Revisiting the album now is like entering a parallel universe inhabited by epic orchestral suites and songs created from the sounds of boiling kettles and frying bacon. Here you’ll find the earliest known recording of the AHM suite, plus filmed performances from Hyde Park and St Tropez, and much more besides.īut in 2016, Atom Heart Mother is probably better known for the cow than the music. Pink Floyd’s gargantuan seven-volume box set, The Early Years 1965-1972, dedicates an entire volume, Devi/Ation, to Atom Heart Mother and the Zabriskie Point soundtrack that inspired its title track. ![]() Now, it seemed, they could do so without including their name or the album title on the cover. EMI’s powers that be already knew that strange-sounding hairy rock groups sold lots of records. Three months later, Atom Heart Mother became Pink Floyd’s first No.1 album. ![]()
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