What an honour to work with one of the great masters of Art..In 2011/12 whilst working for Storm Thorgerson and StormStudios, I was assigned with the task of taking on the production for this album cover for Graham Gouldman. It was a huge challenge to find a rocking horse that matched Storms strict specifications and Dan’s illustration mock up, but after weeks of research and planning I found the perfect horse, hired a van and went to pick it up with Lee. On the day of the shoot Storm had us painting the skirting boards and painting around Dans illustrations that we stuck onto the wall- I remember Lee the retoucher, saying “dont worry I can do all that in post” Storm being Storm wanted it as close to perfect in camera, the way it should be. It was a proper production at a London Studio I arranged. Photographed by Storms photographer Rupert Truman on his vintage Hasselblad camera -using a digital back, immense quality.
AI (artificial intelligence) could never produce or reproduce this image to this level of realism.
I remember vividly Storm sat in his chair, directing, instructing and perfecting a child (Jerrys son) holding a rattle (which he kept throwing on the floor), on a rocking horse, whilst shouting instructions to Rupert behind the camera, and thought to myself, this is not madness at all… This is real Art.