Shot in black and white – with colour solely used to ensure the selected Hipgnosis album covers shine – Corbijn and writer Trish D Chetty paint a candid picture of a dynamic duo who managed to surf the golden wave of 1960s and 1970s rock ‘n’ roll, where musicians and graphic designers were considered artists in a purer, less commercial form. ‘And working-class people with art on the floor stacked against a wall.’ ‘You’ve got posh people with art on the wall,’ Gallagher says. When he was coming up with Oasis, they couldn’t afford the quirky visual stylings of the London-based outfit originated by the late Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, but he recognised the creative value that their work added to a band or musician’s musical releases. Gallagher is one of the many rock ‘n’ roll talking heads reminiscing about the lost brilliance of the music album cover, as defined by the iconic graphic art studio, Hipgnosis (the ‘g’ is silent). ‘As I pulled out the cover, I said, “Yes, and it costs a f**king 100 grand!”’ ‘She said, “they have meetings for that?”’ Gallagher remarks. Part of a generation brought up on iTunes rather than HMV, the idea that her rock-star dad would spend hours discussing (what she simply believed to be) the look of a tiny image that accompanies a track on a streaming platform seemed bizarre.
In Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis), the new documentary from Anton Corbijn, Noel Gallagher offers a familial anecdote about his daughter not understanding the concept of album artwork.
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