Posted November 5, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of The Gathering Storm by Storm Thorgerson.
Thorgerson designed nearly every Pink Floyd album cover beginning with 1968’s “A Saucerful of Secrets,” as well as many others during his long career. He died April 18.
Prizes courtesy of StormStudios. Deadline to register: 8 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Buy The Gathering Storm now from the publisher.
Posted October 2, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of The Flaming Cow, Ron Geesin’s account of the making of “Atom Heart Mother.”
We have 3 copies to give away. Prizes courtesy of The History Press with assistance from Trafalgar Square Publishing from Independent Publishers Group.
Deadline to register: 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Due to postage costs, this contest is limited to participants in the United States and Canada.
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Posted September 28, 2013 by Floydian Slip
StormStudios and de Milo will publish “The Gathering Storm: The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson” on Oct. 1.
The book covers the five-decade-long career of Storm Thorgerson, one of the most prolific album sleeve designers in history, and the primary designer of the Pink Floyd catalog.
Thorgerson wrote and compiled the book over the last year of his life. He saw and approve a finished copy just a few days before he died April 18.
“The Gathering Storm” comes in three editions: Hardback, collector’s and deluxe. The editions are detailed, and available for pre-order, at the Firebrand website.
Posted May 2, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to winners of Mark Blake’s newly revised “Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd”:
Thanks to everyone who entered to win, and to publisher Aurum Press.
Posted February 10, 2013 by Floydian Slip
This summer, avante garde composer and Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin will publish “The Flaming Cow,” a book about his experience putting together Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother Suite” in 1970.
Press for the book promises “a rare insight into the brilliant but often fraught collaboration” among Geesin and members of the Floyd, as well as unpublished photographs from the Abbey Road recording sessions and performances in London and Paris.
Geesin was our guest on “Floydian Slip” in November 2010. You can hear the interview and read a transcript online.
Floyd drummer Nick Mason provided an introduction to the book, which will be published July 17.
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Posted November 20, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Register now to win a copy of “The Treasures of Pink Floyd” by Glenn Povey.
Published in hardcover by Carlton Books, the book contains 62 pages of content, along with dozens of removable facsimile memorabilia such as backstage passes, stickers, handbills, concert posters and more.
The book, published last month, is one of three similar titles released by Carlton, including titles devoted to Bob Dylan and AC/DC.
The author of two previous books about Floyd, Povey founded the Brain Damage fanzine and has written for Mojo, Record Collector, Classic Rock and other periodicals.
We have three copies of the book to give away, courtesy of the publisher.
Register to win now. Deadline is 6 p.m. EST Nov. 28.
Posted December 21, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to Peter Petersson of Great Meadows, NJ, who won an autographed copy of “The Raging Storm,” the new book from Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.
Prize courtesy of StormStudios.
Read more about the book (“New book coming from Storm Thorgerson”), and read our ’97 interview with the author.
Posted November 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson has released “The Raging Storm,” a new coffee table book featuring output over the past four years from his most recent d/b/a, Storm Studios.
Thorgerson was a founding member of design team Hipgnosis, and had a hand in creating nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as the band’s solo members’, numerous reissues for the band, and iconic sleeves for groups such as Genesis, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and others.
“The Raging Storm” is available in two editions: a hardcover version for £34.99; and a deluxe limited edition that includes a giclee print of Biffy Clyro‘s “Only Revolutions” for £395.
Both are 160 pages and include art produced for Floyd, Biffy Clyro, Pendulum, Wombats, Shpongle, Disco Biscuits, Powderfinger, Muse, Steve Miller and others.
Thorgerson has also created monthly calendar wallpaper available for free download.
It’s all available at the online Raging Storm store.
You can read our 1997 interview with Thorgerson at the time of the release of his book “Taken by Storm” online.
Posted September 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Mind Head Publishing Ltd. has published “Pink Floyd: Backstage” by Bobby Hassall.
First published in 1991, the book is a document of super fan Hassall’s experiences following and eventually work for Pink Floyd on the “Momentary Lapse of Reason” and “Division Bell” tours of 1989 and ’94.
This new softcover edition has been redesigned, updated and expanded from its initial run.
The book was edited by Mind Head’s Glenn Povey, author of the excellent “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.”
Buy “Pink Floyd: Backstage” for £15 at www.mindheadpublishing.co.uk.
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