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Wish You Were Here: Royal Mail stamps honour 50 years of Pink Floyd Quote:
A new set of stamps is being issued to honour Pink Floyd, featuring some of the band’s best known album covers. Looking forward to these I must admit!! Not a stamp collector but a huge Pink Floyd fan, they are still the best band I've ever seen live, so ordering a set is a "no brainer" for me!! The 10 stamps will mark 50 years since the group turned professional, and will include album covers such as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.
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Wonder why Atom Heart Mother is there. The band virtually disowned that album. Though David Gilmour has played Fat Old Sun on his solo tours.
The Division Bell would have been a better choice. |
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For musical reasons The Division Bell over The Endless River certainly, as the latter is mostly leftovers.
Atom Heart Mother has a more iconic cover than some better albums, especially when reduced to stamp size. Deserved recognition, regardless. One of the greatest bands ever. |
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For musical reasons The Division Bell over The Endless River certainly, as the latter is mostly leftovers.
Atom Heart Mother has a more iconic cover than some better albums, especially when reduced to stamp size. Deserved recognition, regardless. One of the greatest bands ever. http://www.rarerecordcollector.net/h...hvl-795-front/ |
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True Meddle is a very good album but the cover is nothing really.
http://www.rarerecordcollector.net/h...hvl-795-front/ Typical Hipgnosis |
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It's a clever cover.. seems to be nothing, but it's a ear
Typical Hipgnosis What I find remarkable about their work is that is was all done for real. The cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, for example, really did use hundreds of hospital beds arranged on the sea shore, it wasn't created digitally. |
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I have a number of books on Hipgnosis and their artwork, including one signed by Storm Thorgerson, as their work features on the album covers of many bands I like.
What I find remarkable about their work is that is was all done for real. The cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, for example, really did use hundreds of hospital beds arranged on the sea shore, it wasn't created digitally. |
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Wonder why Atom Heart Mother is there. The band virtually disowned that album. Though David Gilmour has played Fat Old Sun on his solo tours.
The Division Bell would have been a better choice. https://www.theguardian.com/music/ga...p-album-covers God knows why this group is considered worthy of appearing on our stamps twice in 7 years. |
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already been on a stamp
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ga...p-album-covers God knows why this group is considered worthy of appearing on our stamps twice in 7 years. ![]() You might not like them but million of people around the world do, as shown by the fact their final album went straight to #1. |
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already been on a stamp
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ga...p-album-covers God knows why this group is considered worthy of appearing on our stamps twice in 7 years. |
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All iconic covers apart from River, what happened to The Wall?
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All iconic covers apart from River, what happened to The Wall?
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already been on a stamp
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ga...p-album-covers God knows why this group is considered worthy of appearing on our stamps twice in 7 years. |
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Because they are one of the biggest, and most popular bands of all time. I doubt anyone will ever again reach those levels.
It happens though that Pink Floyd's album covers actually make good stamps. Was someone thinking ahead? I think Joy Division's album covers would work as stamps as well. And am I the only one who really likes 'The Endless River?' |
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All iconic covers apart from River, what happened to The Wall?
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Because they are one of the biggest, and most popular bands of all time. I doubt anyone will ever again reach those levels.
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I'm all in favour of bands and singers of note getting a postage stamp. But 15 Pink Floyd stamps in 6 years?? It's a joke. And only being done by Royal Mail to get money off people, just like the Star Wars stamps.
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Maybe U2?
It happens though that Pink Floyd's album covers actually make good stamps. Was someone thinking ahead? I think Joy Division's album covers would work as stamps as well. And am I the only one who really likes 'The Endless River?' ![]() Album covers were of great importance back then too. The Moody Blues had some great ones. |
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Maybe U2?
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you do know the point of a business is usually to make a profit for shareholders, pay staff etc, don't you?
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Irish band on UK stamps?
http://www.u2.com/news/article/496/ |
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You do know that traditionally the post office issued stamps to mark important events, not use them as an income stream, don't you?
I'm sure you are aware now that the royal mail is a plc, so things have changed. but I would imagine they would use certain things as income streams even before they turned into a plc, but happy to see your evidence that proves that's not the case, even though it's not relevant now Quote:
The irony is that these desperate attempts to flog endless issues to the public are causing more and more collectors to abandon buying Royal Mail's collectables completely. A quick look at the stamp collecting press and websites clearly shows that. Smart business move, killing the goose that lays the golden egg... |
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