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Wearing art on their sleeves

The most entertaining rock doco –if you will, rockumentary –of the past year wasn’t much about music. Squaring the Circle is, instead, about Hipgnosis, the duo who went from LSD-scoffing Cambridge flatmates of early Pink Floyd to the guys putting refracting prisms, startled cows, and burning men on their album covers. And who also brought their visual pun-heavy, maximalist touch to the LP artwork of Led Zeppelin, 10CC, Paul McCartney and Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, and many more.

All three living Pink Floyd-ians turn up in the film by storied music photographer Anton Corbijn to pay tribute. So do

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