Limited edition (500) fine art print based on the original artwork, printed on 330g Somerset Satin Enhanced stock
Artist: Hipgnosis (Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson)
Signed and numbered by the artist, Aubrey Powell; Printed by Coriander Studios, London
Print size 26" x 33". Image size 26" x 14.7"
Shipped unmatted/unframed - sorry, but we do NOT currently stock a frame of this size. (click here for custom framing information)
Led Zeppelin scored another Number One album, this time at the expense of one of Plant and Page’s heroes, Elvis Presley. The two band members had met Presley in Las Vegas in 1972. A year later, in its second week on the chart, May 12 1973, Houses Of The Holy knocked Presley’s Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite from Number One on the Billboard Album Chart. For the cover artists, Hipgnosis, this was indeed a landmark year, as that Elvis album had previously stolen the Number One spot from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon.
“ I became totally obsessed with Led Zeppelin, they were the first band I actually listened to. I put on Houses Of The Holy and just sat there.” Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Q Magazine, March 2003.
“At the end of the book, (Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End), all of earth’s children gather together to be taken off into space. I suggested we take a family to the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland and photograph them climbing the octagonal steps there so it looked like they were climbing up to be taken away. I decided to take a black and white photograph and hand tint it in the studio. I shot the children in various positions then cut them out of the photos and made a collage.” Aubrey Powell, Q Magazine, 2003.
“When the accustomed power was unleashed, the effect was inspiring.” Guinness Who’s Who Of Music, 1993. |
