12/24/2023 0 Comments Pink floyd's atom heart motherI love this album from the opening haunt of brass to the final drip. Over to Christopher:Īt the beginning I suppose. To help celebrate it, BD regular Christopher Hughes has been thinking about the album, and shares his views on why, for him, it is such an important album in the Floyd's back catalogue. An album which came together with the help of composer and musician Ron Geesin, the eponymous title track spans one side, with the other side including Floyd classics such as If, and Fat Old Sun. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother - happy 40th anniversary!Ĭelebrating its 40th anniversary this week is Pink Floyd's rather wonderful, if sometimes overlooked, Atom Heart Mother. Jimmy said, ‘What's that?’ Storm said, ‘What do you think?’ And he said, ‘Well, it looks like a racket, are you inferring that Led Zeppelin make a racket?’ Storm said yes, at which point we were shown the door.Home Articles Miscellaneous Articles Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother - happy 40th anniversary! I laid the ideas out on the floor, having not seen this one before, and it was a picture of a tennis racket on a piece of green grass. 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.
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