AAJ Review: Pink Floyd, The Later Years 198)-2019

[jkelman]

Now I think I know why the Later Years box is so expensive... From an interview with DG discussing Storm Thorgersen's work:

Gilmour talks about the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1987 album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and describes how it all came together.

He says: “I drew a picture of a room with a window and a bed which was empty, a bedside table with a picture frame on it with nothing in it, and I said to Storm, ‘I’m thinking something about this line from a song: ‘The vision of an empty bed,’ and showed him this picture.

He said, ‘Yeah, OK, but how about we have 500 empty beds?’ And I said, ‘Show me.’”

The shoot would take place at Saunton Sands in Devon, with Gilmour adding that it “took an massive amount of work and time” involving “hundreds of people” who had to constantly move the beds to avoid the incoming tide.

Well, like I say in the review:

Let it never be said that post-Waters Pink Floyd did anything on a small scale.