Water Guitar

Water GuitarThis limited edition archival inkjet features one of several Storm Thorgerson projects for the Steve Miller Band. Storm's concept for this album cover involved a theatrical performance from a troupe of characters, metaphorically pouring their emotions into the music. You can see the making of video on the Hypergallery blog and see first hand what great lengths Storm and his team go to, to make vision reality. Steve Miller loved this image so much that

Euclide said of Justin Vernon:

The official story is that this tree profile head was achieved by helicopter topiary - a man hung from a helicopter and cut the shape much as he might a hedge

occupying a whole side of the vinyl

"At the time we were developing ideas for a series of portraits of iconic faces from British film

' as if the viewer were barmy

this epic figure was assembled and photographed in a building at the Chatham Naval Yards

Houses Of The Holy was also one of the most difficult to assemble

Armando Gallo captured this shot of the fully made-up Gabriel which was later cropped by Peter to good effect for the album cover

if a visual is framed it may be art

Storm felt that it said a lot about 10cc

says Storm

The unit enjoyed considerable commercial success with Basket Of Light