{"id":1653,"date":"2013-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/2013\/04\/18\/goodbye-storm-thorgerson-the-eye-of-rock\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:04:35","slug":"goodbye-storm-thorgerson-the-eye-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/goodbye-storm-thorgerson-the-eye-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE STORM THORGERSON, THE EYE OF ROCK, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goodbye Storm Thorgerson, the Eye of Rock!<\/strong> &#8220;The best album designer in the world&#8221; just passed away. Best known for his lifelong collaboration with <strong>Pink Floyd, Storm conceived and designed timeless icons such as the prism <\/strong>for the <strong><em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em><\/strong> album (1973), the inflatable pig over Battersea power station for <strong><em>Animals<\/em><\/strong> (1977), the 700 hospital beds on a beach for\u00a0<strong><em>A Momentary Lapse of Reason <\/em><\/strong>(1987), He&#8217;s also remembered for a virtually endless series of unforgettable images, also with his partner <strong>Aubrey Powell<\/strong> at <strong>Hipgnosis<\/strong>, for <strong>Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Nice, Paul McCartney, 10cc<\/strong>, <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong>, the <strong>Cranberries<\/strong> and <strong>Muse<\/strong>. Read about Storm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2013\/apr\/18\/storm-thorgerson-dies-69-designer-of-album-covers-for-pink-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in <strong><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye Storm Thorgerson, the Eye of Rock! \u201cThe best album designer in the world\u201d just passed away. Best known <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39997,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/39997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}