One Slip - Pink Floyd

Vinyl Single 7" - EMI Records - EM 52.

1988 - U.K.

Cover design: Storm Thorgerson, Nexus.

Cover photo: George Silk, Time Life.

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Pink Vinyl

Vinyl Single 7" - EMI Records - EMG 52.

1988 - U.K.

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Inner gatefold

Disc side 1

Disc side 2

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Guaranteed ticket application

Single 12"

Vinyl Single 12" - EMI Records - 12EM 52.

1988 - U.K - 3-track record.

Limited Edition 12" Includes Free Poster

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Poster (front)

Poster (back)

Compact Disc

EMI Records - CD EM 52.

1988 - U.K.

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Back and front cover

Disc

Pink Floyd

Richard Wright, David Gilmour & Nick Mason

About the artwork

Blue Girl #7 by Tim Davies

Oil pastel and collage on board

Oil pastel and collage on board

Oil pastel and collage on board

I was working in London at Nexus in 1988 as a freelance designer. Nexus and another design company Icon (by whom I was commissioned to create the cover paintings for Robert Plant's LP "Shaken N Stirred" in 1985) were formed when the design company Hipgnosis broke up a few years earlier. Colin Chambers, the guy running Nexus, asked me to put together some rough ideas for a French pop-group called "Blue Matisse" who were high up in the French charts at that time.

We planned to show them to the group and their management in the next few days. The next day when I arrived at the studio all the images were gone. Colin told me that Storm had come to the studio with one of the musicians from Pink Floyd, possibly Dave Gilmour who was around a lot then. They saw the sketches and grabbed them for the singles cover image. Colin had told Storm they were for "Blue Matisse", and Storm had replied "Not any more!"

       Tim Davies

        Extracts from: Adventures in Pink Floyd land: cover image artist.

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