Delicate Sound of Thunder By Andy Earl

A combination of the surrealistic creative thinking of the late Storm Thorgerson and the adroit photographic skills of Andy Earl combined to produce the stunning cover for the live double album Delicate Sound of Thunder by Pink Floyd. Thorgerson was the maverick co-founder of design studio Hipgnosis, alongside his business partner Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, and from the late 1960s onwards they were the ‘go to’ guys to guarantee a creative, off-the-wall album cover.

Andy Earl had worked with music guru Malcolm McLaren with the band Bow Wow Wow and with ‘New Romantic’ bands like Duran Duran, but getting the call to shoot a Pink Floydshoot, surrealism was all I was interested in – I was fascinated by Magritte and those sort of references. It was a big thing to be asked to do and I was very excited.’