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SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS)

The story of music’s most famous creative design company.

So many of the stories Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell relates to the camera in this affectionate portrait of the art and design group Hipgnosis, which he formed with Storm Thorgerson, are deeply ingrained in rock the off-the-wall choice of a cow to grace and setting a stunt man alight for , just three of hundreds of examples of Thorgerson and Powell’s ability to create memorable album covers.

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