The team devised a concept for the cover involving two men - record execs fashioned in a style suggested by the album’s “Have a Cigar” - shaking hands to seal some unknown deal. “Lengthy discussions, particularly with the band, much internal focusing, and repeated exposure to the haunting brilliance of ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ led inexorably to one point, led to one theme, in fact to the one word, ‘absence.'” “‘Wish You Were Here’ was a different story altogether,” he added. Or what the album may really be about, even if the Floyd haven’t said it, or don’t yet know it.” “We discuss what the music feels like to us. “We just sit in a very ordinary room, listen to Floyd music, and talk,” Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson explained in his 1997 book, “Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd.” The concept started for design team Hipgnosis, as it often did, with close examination of the music.
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