Squaring.The.Circle.The.Story.Of.Hipgnosis.2022.1080p.BluRay.x264.AAC5.1-[YTS.MX].eng Subtitles

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00:02:19,682 --> 00:02:21,Hipgnosis is what it says.

00:02:21,892 --> 00:02:26,Hip, cool and groovy.
Gnostic, meaning wise.

00:02:32,903 --> 00:02:36,What I love
about vinyl is the artwork.

00:02:36,448 --> 00:02:38,Great photography,

00:02:38,242 --> 00:02:40,and graphic design,
and great imagination.

00:02:41,996 --> 00:02:44,Incredible songs.
Incredible albums.

00:02:44,582 --> 00:02:47,But synonymous
with so many of those records

00:02:47,543 --> 00:02:49,is the artwork of Hipgnosis.

00:02:52,923 --> 00:02:55,It was the
people who the work was for.

00:02:55,676 --> 00:02:59,The megastars of the late '60s,
early '70s, Hipgnosis,

00:02:59,722 --> 00:03:03,they were, in a way, a kind of
a lens of fascinating excess.

00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:47,I'd been kicked out of school

00:03:47,561 --> 00:03:49,and both my mother and father
lived abroad.

00:03:50,773 --> 00:03:53,So I found myself
footloose in Cambridge

00:03:53,567 --> 00:03:56,and I went to live in a house
in Clarendon Street.

00:03:56,111 --> 00:03:59,And I kept seeing
these very cool-looking people

00:03:59,365 --> 00:04:01,going in and out
of this one house.

00:04:01,325 --> 00:04:04,And I thought, "Now they're
people I should get to know."

00:04:07,665 --> 00:04:09,I went across the street,

00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:13,went upstairs and went into
this extraordinary room.

00:04:13,212 --> 00:04:14,I'd never seen anything
like it.

00:04:14,630 --> 00:04:16,It was Bohemian,
to say the least.

00:04:16,131 --> 00:04:17,It was full of graffiti.

00:04:17,508 --> 00:04:19,You know, Nietzsche,
"God is dead".

00:04:19,802 --> 00:04:23,A pair of army boots
drawn by Syd Barrett.

00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:25,I didn't even know
who Syd Barrett was then.

00:04:25,724 --> 00:04:27,Everybody was smoking dope,

00:04:27,393 --> 00:04:29,sitting around,
listening to music.

00:04:29,144 --> 00:04:31,John Coltrane,
something like that.

00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,And I was introduced
to this guy with long hair

00:04:34,358 --> 00:04:36,who was very brash.

00:04:36,610 --> 00:04:39,"Hello, man." That was Storm.

00:04:39,738 --> 00:04:43,Storm was, like,
the leader of this pack

00:04:43,701 --> 00:04:46,of very nice boys and girls.

00:04:46,954 --> 00:04:49,Um, but Storm
just wouldn't stop talking.

00:04:49,748 --> 00:04:51,He had been freely educated,

00:04:51,917 --> 00:04:54,and so he was very loud
and very free.

00:04:54,086 --> 00:04:57,He was also very bright.
Very chirpy.

00:04:57,756 --> 00:04:59,And he played rugby very well.

00:04:59,842 --> 00:05:03,We played in the same rugby 15.

00:05:04,430 --> 00:05:08,After the pub, we used to go
back to Storm's mother's house.

00:05:08,726 --> 00:05:11,We used to pile in, about
eight or nine or ten of us.

00:05:11,937 --> 00:05:14,Sometimes drunk, sometimes not.

00:05:14,106 --> 00:05:17,Storm's mother, Vanji,
was very liberal

00:05:17,234 --> 00:05:20,and didn't seem to mind
what we all g***t up to.

00:05:21,989 --> 00:05:23,So, Pink Floyd were there,

00:05:23,324 --> 00:05:25,but they weren't
called Pink Floyd.

00:05:25,326 --> 00:05:28,And, well, we were all there
getting a bit drunk,

00:05:28,329 --> 00:05:30,I don't know, or very stoned.

00:05:30,831 --> 00:05:33,So, I sat around,
and we smoked some joints.

00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:36,And the conversation
was full of laughter.

00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:38,I felt at home there somehow.

00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,I was kind of a loner, bit lost,
in a way. I was only 16.

00:05:43,719 --> 00:05:46,Anyway, couple of hours in...

00:05:49,892 --> 00:05:53,...big bang at the front door,
and it's the police.

00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:55,Everybody ran out of the room,

00:05:55,606 --> 00:05:58,shovelling pills, grass,
hash in their pockets.

00:05:58,609 --> 00:05:59,Out the back door.

00:05:59,985 --> 00:06:01,I stayed put.

00:06:01,236 --> 00:06:04,Anyway, the police g***t in
the house and found nothing.

00:06:04,156 --> 00:06:05,And we g***t a scolding.

00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,And Storm sat there
and he said to me,

00:06:07,493 --> 00:06:09,"Why didn't you leave
with the others?"

00:06:09,453 --> 00:06:13,And I said, "I don't believe
in dumping a sinking ship."

00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:15,"I believe in fighting it out
till the end."

00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:17,And from that moment on,

00:06:17,294 --> 00:06:22,we were in each other's company,
and never left.

00:06:22,257 --> 00:06:23,And became like brothers.

00:06:34,895 --> 00:06:39,Storm and Po worked for the
greatest artists in the world.

00:06:39,233 --> 00:06:41,Whether that was Pink Floyd,
whether it was Led Zeppelin

00:06:42,069 --> 00:06:43,whether it was Paul McCartney.

00:06:44,029 --> 00:06:45,People that could have worked

00:06:45,697 --> 00:06:48,with whomever
they wanted to work with.

00:06:48,826 --> 00:06:52,And Storm was
a really difficult guy.

00:06:53,038 --> 00:06:57,I'm described by some
as difficult to work with,

00:06:57,334 --> 00:07:01,by others as a ponce,
by some as a narcissist

00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:05,with an ego the size
a small planet,

00:07:05,426 --> 00:07:08,by some as really awkward,
argumentative,

00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,by others yet as grumpy.

00:07:10,597 --> 00:07:13,Very few as handsome and s***y,
which is the way I see myself.

00:07:13,725 --> 00:07:16,Somehow there was
a bonding between us.

00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:20,And because he was bright
and so intellectually sharp,

00:07:20,941 --> 00:07:22,I immediately gravitated
to that.

00:07:22,818 --> 00:07:24,I thought this man...

00:07:24,403 --> 00:07:26,I can learn something
from this man.

00:07:26,822 --> 00:07:28,None of us were aware
at the time

00:07:28,866 --> 00:07:30,that Pink Floyd
would come out of it,

00:07:30,868 --> 00:07:32,or so much creative talent

00:07:32,411 --> 00:07:34,would suddenly arrive
from that scene.

00:07:34,455 --> 00:07:36,But there was definitely
the undercurrent

00:07:36,623 --> 00:07:39,that we were
part of the hipsters.

00:08:06,111 --> 00:08:08,Pink Floyd were
getting a lot of attention.

00:08:08,405 --> 00:08:10,And suddenly everyone
was moving to London.

00:08:10,908 --> 00:08:12,Storm would go into
the Royal College of Art.

00:08:12,868 --> 00:08:15,And I thought, "Oh no,
I'm gonna be left behind."

00:08:15,954 --> 00:08:18,And he said,
"Well, just come with me

00:08:18,165 --> 00:08:19,in the autumn term and enrol,

00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,like you're one of the students
in the photographic school."

00:08:22,252 --> 00:08:24,I said, "I don't know anything
about photography."

00:08:24,713 --> 00:08:27,He said, "Well, come on.
I'll teach you."

00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:28,I said, "Well, what do I do?"

00:08:28,926 --> 00:08:33,He said, "You point, shoot,
reload and repeat."

00:08:33,430 --> 00:08:35,"Point, shoot,
reload and repeat."

00:08:36,058 --> 00:08:38,And Storm was aggressive
like that. I thought, "OK."

00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:40,Went down to the darkroom.

00:08:40,646 --> 00:08:42,And I stood next to him
and watched the picture

00:08:43,065 --> 00:08:45,I'd taken
some half an hour earlier

00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,come through
on this white piece of paper

00:08:47,444 --> 00:08:50,of this beautiful photograph
of a car.

00:08:50,364 --> 00:08:52,And I g***t goosebumps
all over me.

00:08:52,699 --> 00:08:56,I absolutely went,
"Oh, my God, this is alchemy."

00:08:56,620 --> 00:09:00,And I knew instantly
that's what I had to do.

00:09:00,624 --> 00:09:03,I need to be a photographer.
I wanna be a photographer.

00:09:03,335 --> 00:09:05,I don't care what it takes,
that's what I have to do.

00:09:05,837 --> 00:09:06,This is magic.

00:09:07,256 --> 00:09:11,So, for six months, I attended
the Royal College as a student.

00:09:12,052 --> 00:09:15,So already we're starting
to see the ducking and diving

00:09:15,138 --> 00:09:17,that was to characterise
Storm and Po's

00:09:17,391 --> 00:09:20,very successful artistic
business relationship.

00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:32,OK, Po. How did Hipgnosis
first get involved

00:09:32,781 --> 00:09:34,in sleeve design?

00:09:34,908 --> 00:09:37,Er, through the back door,
really. Um...

00:09:39,288 --> 00:09:42,We knew the Pink Floyd
in Cambridge. Um...

00:09:42,958 --> 00:09:44,And when we came to London,

00:09:44,835 --> 00:09:47,Floyd were starting
to do some things then.

00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:50,Well, they were starting, flat,
and they came along,

00:09:50,090 --> 00:09:52,and I suppose
because we'd been friends,

00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,it was sort of the natural thing
to say, "You're in visuals,

00:09:55,345 --> 00:09:57,why don't you have a go
at the album sleeve?"

00:09:57,347 --> 00:09:59,And that was
the first thing we did.

00:10:00,642 --> 00:10:03,Storm asked me.
He said... We're old friends,

00:10:03,895 --> 00:10:07,even then, when I was and he was 24,

00:10:08,066 -->...