Were one to remove the sculptural piece from its box and pass a laser through one of its pyramidal facets, refracted light would cast myriad coloured beams on the garage wall, revealing the cover art for one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable record sleeves in rock history. She doesn’t see the connection. Gala casually disregards the notion that, to even the most casual observer, the piece looks like the direct reference material for the famous The Dark Side of the Moon album cover designed by prog rock’s maverick art directors Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson of the London-based Hipgnosis outfit. One of Gala’s most celebrated designs — her Mekon Cube floor light, a soft white globe light inside a two way mirror box — could have come straight off the Hipgnosis drawing board. “Before I got the Aston, the best car I’d ever had was a VW camper van,” she says. Rick Wright, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and David GilmourIt was only in 1979, when Pink Floyd scored its first number one with Another Brick in the Wall, that Gala began to realise that her dad might be something of a big deal. But it hasn’t been easy. Gala Wright outside the Kensington HQ with her beautiful DB5 Growing up, Gala didn’t have much contact with Pink Floyd’s dirigibles and pyrotechnics. I would pester him to take it out. “Dad said to them, ‘We want something simple and graphic. “After all, Dad was often credited as a driving force behind the band’s art direction so maybe something rubbed off.” Stored somewhere in the garage of the Kensington mews HQ owned by the Pink Floyd organisation, just next to a beautiful Aston Martin DB5, is an unassuming cardboard box that is home to an acrylic prism tower, filled with coloured oil.
Artwork for the 1969 album Ummagumma designed with a Droste effect by collaborators Hipgnosis“It was very arty and relaxed. Gala inherited it after her father’s untimely death in 2009, but prefers keeping it for weekend cruises in the West Sussex countryside around her Brighton home.
Something smarter, neater — more classy… Not one of your silly pictures.’” (Presumably a gently mocking reference to Hipgnosis’ artfully unsettling imagery used on previous Floyd album covers, such as Wish You Were Here and Ummagumma.) I was there with people like Joe Corre (son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren), John Cleese’s kids and my friend Sara Lord whose father was in Deep Purple.” The atmosphere was free-spirited and non-competitive. – London, 2008. szeptember 15.) “Dad just brought it home one day and kept it around the house, probably thinking it would be useful. She doesn’t see the connection. A specially created laser spectacle in another gallery promises to send legions of visiting Floyd geeks into acid flashback mode. Waters said "it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the 60s and 70s" and was happy that they had managed to reunite for Live 8.In the 1970s, Wright listened to some contemporary In the early days of the band, Wright dabbled with In the 1970s, Wright began using synthesizers such as the Wright was a proficient multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to keyboards, also played Waters, Gilmour, producer After Waters' departure in 1985, Wright began to contribute to Pink Floyd again, beginning with sessions for On 2 July 2005, Wright, Gilmour and Mason were joined by Waters on stage for the first time since the Wright's last Floyd appearance was posthumously on 2014's Wright rarely played live outside of Pink Floyd compared to the other members.
There were keyboards and musical equipment around the house and Gala can recall going to sleep watching the woozy colours and psychedelic patterns projected from her parents’ oil lanterns on the wall, “but most of the time Dad tended to keep things separate”. It joined an impressive Wright garage that included, variously, an AC Cobra, a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, a Lotus Espirit “and his favourite — which came much, much later — an Aston Martin DB9.
All she knows is that it has been a mystically ornamental constant in her life ever since she was a little girl. His second marriage to Franka lasted between 1984 and 1994.Wright died from lung cancer at his home in London on 15 September 2008, aged 65.The surviving members of Pink Floyd paid Wright tribute. She attended the progressive St Christopher’s school in Hertfordshire, whose alumni include AA Gill and Prince Rupert Loewenstein — erstwhile financial manager of The Rolling Stones.
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