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Us and Them: Amazing adventures of a couple of characters who rocked the album cover world
Mark Blake’s potted history of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell’s design collective takes a romp through ‘the greatest decade in the history of humanity’ with a group of weird and wonderful friends
The world might not remember the 1971 album Elegy by English prog-rockers the Nice with any great fondness (if at all), but the cover art is another matter. Design maverick Storm Thorgerson had a vision. “A desert, with rolling dunes, stretching into the distance,” he reckoned. “But with red footballs . . .”
In the days before Photoshop, this required a trip to the Sahara. The Nice’s keyboard- stabbing Keith Emerson agreed, as did his ...
