Lifemask - Roy Harper


Cover

Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 808.
1973 - U.K.

Cover design: HIPGNOSIS / Roy Harper.
Photography: Storm Thorgerson.


Back cover

Inner gatefold

Labels



Roy Harper


1941



About the artwork:




Memorabilia:

Harvest Records


Pink Floyd Ilustrado

Posted by Pink Floyd Ilustrado

Pink Floyd · Rockronología y discografía en imágenes 1967 - 2026.

Post a Comment

1 Comments

  1. WIKIPEDIAJune 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM


    Lifemask is the sixth album by English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper, and was first released in 1973 by Harvest Records.

    Lifemask was written by Harper during a period of illness when HHT, which leads to polycythemia, threatened his health and incapacitated him.

    With thoughts of life and death upon his mind, side two of the album features a lengthy 23-minute track entitled "The Lord's Prayer" which Harper described as "my last will and testament".

    The gatefold album cover is a representation of Harper's 'death mask', that opens centrally to reveal Harper, very much alive, "fixing the listener with one of his trademarked intense stares.

    As such it, in fact, shows Harper's 'life mask' as opposed to the death mask it could have been.

    ReplyDelete