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GENESIS David Gilmour, guitarist and latter day captain of the dreadnought known as Pink Floyd, remembers a gathering at Nick Mason’s home in November 1971. The meeting was memorable as it was when Roger Waters, chief navigator of the band’s creative output after Syd Barrett wandered away into fields unknown, outlined his idea for a new project.  Roger remembers the occasion too. It was when he…

Review of Mark Blake's Shine On book.

I see The Wall, The Final Cut and Pros And Cons as a kind of Waters trilogy. Equally so, Pigs Might Fly, Us and Them and Shine On form three parts of a Floydian collection.

Shine On is not a replacement of Blake’s Pigs Might Fly, but a well-deserved sequel. The band have been retrograded to a bunch of rowdy ankle-biters fighting for a few million dollars more. Luckily there are some people like Mark Blake around who make us remember what the fuck it was all about. Recommended.

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While most people, myself included, thought that Hipgnosis was mainly Storm's brainchild, it was a duo, consisting of Storm and Po. In the mid-seventies, a third partner joined the team, who even surpassed the other two in eccentricity: Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson.

Our review of the Mark Blake Hipgnosis biography:  Us and Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis.

Every record collector of a certain age knows the album covers of legendary British design studio Hipgnosis. Now, thanks to a new book by Mark Blake, we can dive into the colourful history of the crew who gave us so many memorable record sleeves. The author kindly agreed to talk to Vinyl Connection. Vinyl Connection: Welcome, Mark. Your new book, Us and Them, is a trio of intertwined histories.…