Its been a little over a month since Storm Thorgerson passed away. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson, were Cambridge natives and the design team Hipgnosis. About 26 years ago a Redemptorist in India, Xavier Pinto CSSR gifted me a book on the work of Hipgnosis which I still have. + + + David Gilmour (Pink Flyod guitarist) said on his site http://www.davidgilmour.com/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidgilmour.com%2F&h=EAQEsosaI&s=1> on June 18, 2013: "We first met in our early teens. We would gather at Sheep's Green, a spot by the river in Cambridge and Storm would always be there holding forth, making the most noise, bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. Nothing has ever really changed.
"He has been a constant force in my life, both at work and in private, a shoulder to cry on and a great friend. "The artworks that he created for Pink Floyd from 1968 to the present day have been an inseparable part of our work. "I will miss him." + + + http://www.google.com/search?q=Storm+Thorgerson%2BHipgnosis&client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=xL3HUbynOvSp4APcnIDwBg&ved=0CFYQsAQ&biw=1245&bih=717 +++++++++++ venantius j pinto
