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Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 822.
1981 - U.K.
Cover design: HIPGNOSIS, TPC (Thorgerson/Christopherson/Powell).
Phootography: Aubrey Powell.
Graphics: Citizen (Neville Brody).
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Back cover
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Back cover & cover
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Inner sleeve
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Inner sleeve
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Labels
Pink Floyd
Roger Waters, Nick Mason, David Gilmour & Richard Wright
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CBS Records Australia
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PINK FLOYD · THEIR VERY BEST
Columbia Records
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In step with the past
Columbia Records
Cash Box Magazine, december 1981
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ReplyDeleteA Collection of Great Dance Songs is a compilation album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 23 November 1981 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and in the United States by Columbia Records.
The ironic title was a reference to the disco rhythms of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", as well as Nick Mason's joke that the band's U.S. label "probably thought they were a dance band".
The album art featured a photograph of ballroom dancers anchored to the ground so they cannot move. The inner sleeve had pictures of dancers on either a white (UK) or black (US) background.
ReplyDeleteThe Prime of Mr. Neville Brody.
Debra Bishop: I think drawing is such an underrated skill. Today, especially. So were there any inspirations at that time that you can remember?
Neville Brody: Just coming back to the drawing thing, when I took over as head of program for visual communication at the RCA (Royal College of Art), the first thing I did was to try and reintroduce proper drawing. I think it’s such a critical skill, which becomes ever-more distant with digital technologies and social media. And the instant gratification of our cultures now means that, you know, sitting down to take the time over drawing seems a bit of an anathema, but around that time the biggest influence, I think, on me was what was happening in music.
From the age of 10 or 11, I discovered reggae. And that was really taking off in the UK. And not only was it a huge impact on music culture, but also visually with the record labels being very, let’s say, low-resolution, often done by hand rather than printed en masse.
And that, coupled with gatefold album sleeves. And that led me to become very interested in people like Roger Dean and Hipgnosis. And actually, I ended up, after leaving college, spending some time working with Hipgnosis.
Roger Dean, incidentally, I’d sent my record covers into a book called the Album Cover Album, of which he was the editor, and he looked at my work, apparently, and said, “God, any baby could draw this.” And he rejected it all.
Debra Bishop: I have both of those books.
Neville Brody: I actually did the book of Hipgnosis. Around that time I did a Pink Floyd cover, which I never put my name on. I shall share that privately one day. But in Britain, the music industry was the biggest opportunity for young designers to really find a platform that supported them and allowed them to publish their work. Especially when punk came along and in almost every bedroom in London there was a record label happening. It was an incredible time. At one point there were 200 reggae singles coming out every week in London!
ReplyDeleteNot much to do on this great shot. Strengthen the ropes that had been obscured by grass. This was a "C" Type print so not conducive to being bleached. Paint was therefore used with a Sable brush and then Gum Arabic sprayed with the airbrush to knock back the paint.