![]() ![]() Blargh -The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.145.241.139 ( talk) 12:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC). Someone please find out the album chart scores for Floyd in the UK to make these things clear. Floyd were not accepted in America until they became mainstream with DSOTM, so there is no point only sourcing American Charts as they never had the publicity there. I am kinda fed up with people only giving chart details of how English bands performed in America. The result was, in Thorgerson's phrase, 'the ultimate picture of a cow. This conversation inspired him to drive through Essex and photograph the first cow he saw, in the manner of animal textbooks he remembered from school. A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 16:18, 23 March 2008 (UTC)Īgain Nicholas Schaffner's book: 'A Saucerful Of Secrets' has something to say on this re Thorgerson: ".Storm heard his friend John Blake cite Andy Warhol's famous cow wallpaper as the ultimate in ordinariness. There is a citation, but the link doesn't work anymore. I believe the quote is accurate, so it should stand, even if he didn't express himself clearly. ![]() When Thorgerson says "first thing", he probably meant "first cow". It wasn't random.Īnyone care to back me up? Hinkleyp 17:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC) The article makes it plain the concept was pre-planned. ![]() There were also two other prototype designs. He says there that he spoke with John Blake, an out of work photographer, and it was he who suggested the cow as a design. Where's the citation for Thorgerson saying he photographed the cow as the first thing he saw? Pick up a copy of Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd by Thorgerson. ![]()
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