Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd



Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 781.
1970 - U.K

Cover design, photos (S. Thorgerson): HIPGNOSIS.


Back cover

Gatefold

Inner gatefold

Labels



Pink Floyd


Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason & David Gilmour



About the artwork:

Location

A rural area near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England


The models

Lulubelle III & her Holstein-Friesian cow friends




Photos


Nick Mason, Roger Waters & David Gilmour

David Gilmour

Nick Mason

Aubrey Powell

Storm Thorgerson



Memorabilia:

Harvest Records
Rolling Stone Magazine - October 29, 1970.

Harvest Records
Melody Maker Magazine - October1970

Capitol Records
Billboard Magazine - October 31, 1970

Harvest Records
Billboard Magazine, October 3, 1970


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  1. WIKIPEDIAJune 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM


    Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the United Kingdom, and on 10 October 1970 in the United States.

    It was recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going gold there.

    The original album cover, designed by art collective Hipgnosis, shows a Holstein-Friesian cow standing in a pasture with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record.

    Some later editions have the title and artist name added to the cover. This concept was the group's reaction to the psychedelic space rock imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance. They thus requested that their new album had "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of a cow.

    Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow wallpaper", has said that he simply drove out into a rural area near Potters Bar and photographed the first cow he saw.

    The cow's owner identified her name as "Lulubelle III". More cows appear on the back cover, again with no text or titles, and on the inside gatefold. Also, a pink balloon shaped like a cow udder accompanied the album as part of Capitol's marketing strategy campaign to "break" the band in the US.

    Looking back on the artwork, Thorgerson remembered: "I think the cow represents, in terms of the Pink Floyd, part of their humour, which I think is often underestimated or just unwritten about."

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