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—  HOW RUSTED SHUT I AM, HOW LOCKED, HOW OXIDIZED. 

𝚆𝙴𝙻𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝙲𝙸𝚃𝚈 — ( chris hemsworth, cis man, he/him ) you are a [ FIXER ] in night city, working [ FOR THE STREET ] as a [ BANK ROBBER ], and you are here to make a name for yourself. that name is [ NIK VALENTINE ], and you’ve been on this godforsaken earth for [ FORTY ] years, and most people tell you you’re [ REPENTANT ] and [ HYPOCRITICAL ]. you [ ARE NOT ] a night city native, but you will be a night city legend.

CHARACTER PARALLELS: geralt of rivia (the witcher), joel miller (the last of us), tyrion lannister (game of thrones), haymitch abernathy (the hunger games), alastor moody (harry potter), frank castle (mcu), jorah mormont (game of thrones), raymond holt (brooklyn nine nine), barry berkman (barry), james flint (black sails), john wick (john wick), jessica jones (mcu), billy butcher (the boys)

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STORM THORGERSON

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Album Covers

10cc:

Sheet Music (1974)

The Original Soundtrack (1975)

How Dare You! (1976)

Deceptive Bends (1977)

Bloody Tourists (1978)

Greatest Hits 1972–1978 (1979)

Look Hear? (1980)

Mirror Mirror (1994)

AC/DC

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976) (international edition)

Alan Parsons:

Try Anything Once (1993)

On Air (1996)

The Time Machine (1999)

A Valid Path (2004)

The Alan Parsons Project

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)

I Robot (1977)

Pyramid (1978)

Eve (1979)

Eye in the Sky (1982)

Ammonia Avenue (1984)

Al Stewart

Past, Present and Future (1973)

Modern Times (1975)

Year of the Cat (1976)

The Early Years (1977)

Time Passages (1978)

The Answer

New Horizon (2013)

Anthrax

Stomp 442 (1995)

Argent

Ring of Hands (1971)

In Deep (1973)

Ashra

Correlations (1979)

Audience

The House on the Hill (1971)

Lunch (1972)

You Can’t Beat ’em (1973)

Audioslave

Audioslave (2002)

Bad Company

Bad Company (1974)

Straight Shooter (1975)

Burnin’ Sky (1977)

Desolation Angels (1979)

Rough Diamonds (1982)

Be-Bop Deluxe

Drastic Plastic (1978)

Biffy Clyro:

Puzzle (2007)

“Saturday Superhouse” (2007)

“Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies” (2007)

“Folding Stars” (2007)

“Machines” (2007)

Only Revolutions (2009)

“That Golden Rule” (2009)

“The Captain” (2009)

“Lonely Revolutions” (2010)

Opposites (2013)

“Black Chandelier” (2013)

“Biblical” (2013)

“Opposite” (2013)

“Victory Over the Sun” (2013)

“Similarities” (2014)

Black Sabbath:

Technical Ecstasy (1976)

Never Say Die! (1978)

Brand X

Unorthodox Behaviour (1976)

Moroccan Roll (1977)

Livestock (1977)

Product (1979)

Do They Hurt? (1980)

Bruce Dickinson

Skunkworks (1996)

Catherine Wheel:

Chrome (1993)

Happy Days (1995)

Like Cats and Dogs (compilation) (1996)

Adam And Eve (1997)

Wishville (2000)

The Cranberries:

Bury the Hatchet (1999)

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001)

The Cult:

Electric (1987) (credited on the picture sleeve as “Art Direction by Storm Thorgerson”)

Cochise

Cochise (1970)

David Gilmour

David Gilmour (1978)

About Face (1984)

David Gilmour in Concert DVD (2002)

Def Leppard

High ‘n’ Dry (1981)

Deepest Blue

Late September (2004)

Disco Biscuits:

Planet Anthem (2010)

Dream Theater:

Falling into Infinity (1997)

“Once in a LIVEtime” (1998)

“5 Years in a Livetime” (1998)

The Dukes

The Dukes (1979)

Edgar Broughton Band

Edgar Broughton Band (1971)

Inside Out (1972)

Oora (1973)

A Bunch of 45s (1975)

Parlez-Vous English (1979)

Electric Light Orchestra

The Electric Light Orchestra (1971)

ELO 2 (1973)

On the Third Day (1973)

The Light Shines On (1977)

Ellis, Beggs, & Howard

Homelands (1989)

Ethnix

Home Is Where The Head Is (2002)

Europe

Secret Society (2006)

Fabulous Poodles

Mirror Stars (1978)

Flash

Flash (1972)

Out of Our Hands (1973)

Foreigner

4 (Labels only) (1981)

Gary Brooker

No More Fear of Flying (1979)

Godley & Creme

Freeze Frame (1979)

The Gods

Genesis (1968)

To Samuel a Son (1969)

Genesis

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)

A Trick of the Tail (1976)

Wind & Wuthering (1976)

…And Then There Were Three… (1978)

The Greatest Show on Earth

Horizons (1970)

The Going’s Easy (1970)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1975)

Greg Friedman

Can’t Talk Now (2013)

goodbyemotel

If (2014)

Goose

Synrise (2012)

Helloween

Pink Bubbles Go Ape (1991)

Herman Rarebell

Nip in the Bud (1981)

Humble Pie

Town and Country (1969)

Thunderbox (1974)

Ian Dury and The Blockheads

Mr. Love Pants (1998)

John Wetton

Caught in the Crossfire (1980)

Korda Marshall

Now We Breathe (2015)

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin (1969)

Houses of the Holy (1973)

Presence (1976)

The Song Remains the Same (1976)

In Through the Out Door (1979)

Coda (1982)

Leisure Cruise

Leisure Cruise (2014)

Leo Sayer

Living in a Fantasy (1980)

The Mars Volta:

De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)

“Inertiatic ESP” single (2003)

“Televators” single (2003)

Frances the Mute (2005)

“The Widow” single (2005)

Amputechture (2006) (original artwork)

Megadeth:

Rude Awakening DVD (2002)

Mick Taylor

Mick Taylor (1979)

Mike Oldfield

Earth Moving (1989)

Earth Moving single (1989)

Mike Rutherford

Smallcreep’s Day (1980)

Muse:

Absolution (2003)

“Butterflies and Hurricanes” single (2004)

Black Holes and Revelations (2006)

“Uprising” single (2009)

Nazareth

Rampant (1974)

Close Enough for Rock ‘n’ Roll (1976)

The Nice

Five Bridges (1970)

Elegy (1971)

Autumn ’67 – Spring ’68 (1972)

Nick Mason

Fictitious Sports (1981)

O.A.R.

Stories of a Stranger (2005)

The Offspring

Splinter (2003)

Paul McCartney

Tug of War (1982)

Peter Gabriel:

Peter Gabriel (1977) (“Car”)

Peter Gabriel (1978) (“Scratch”)

Peter Gabriel (1980) (“Melt”)

Pendulum

Immersion (2010)

Phish

Slip Stitch and Pass (1997)

The Pineapple Thief

Someone Here Is Missing (2010)

Pink Floyd:[20]

A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)

More (1969)

Ummagumma (1969)

Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Meddle (1971)

Obscured by Clouds (1972)

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

A Nice Pair (1973)

Wish You Were Here (1975)

Animals (1977)

A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)[10]

Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)

Shine On (1992)[10]

The Division Bell (1994)

P*U*L*S*E (1995), including the blinking LED light that was featured in early CD packaging.[21]

Relics re-release (1996)

Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81(2000)

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001)

Oh, by the Way (2007)

The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door (2011)

The Plea

The Dreamers Stadium (2012)[22]

The Police

“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” (single) (1980)

Powderfinger

Golden Rule (2009)

Pretty Things

Parachute (1970)

Freeway Madness (1972)

Silk Torpedo (1974)

Savage Eye (1976)

Cross Talk (1980)

Program the Dead

Program The Dead (2005)

Quatermass

Quatermass (1970)

Rainbow

Difficult to Cure (1981)[9]

Straight Between the Eyes (1982)

Bent Out of Shape (1983)

Ralph McTell

Slide Away the Screen (1979)

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Stadium Arcadium (2006) (unused)

Renaissance

Prologue (1972)

Ashes Are Burning (1973)

Turn of the Cards (1974)

Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)

A Song for All Seasons (1978)

Rick Wright

Wet Dream (1978)

Broken China (1996)

Rival Sons

Pressure & Time (2011)

Robert Plant:

The Principle of Moments (1983)

“Big Log“ (single) (1983)

Roger Taylor

Fun in Space (1981)

Roy Harper

Lifemask (1973)

Valentine (1974)

Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion (1974)

HQ (1975)

Bullinamingvase (1977)

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar (1977)

Musical Chairs (1977)

Scorpions

Lovedrive (1979)

Animal Magnetism (1980)

Crazy World (1990)

Shpongle

Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland (2009)

Slow Earth

Latitude and 023 (2013)

Steve Hillage

Live Herald (1979)

Steve Miller Band:

Bingo! (2010)

Let Your Hair Down (2011)

Strawbs

Deadlines (1977)

Styx

Pieces of Eight (1978)

Cyclorama (2003)

Syd Barrett

The Madcap Laughs (1970)

Barrett (1970)

Syd Barrett (1974)

An Introduction to Syd Barrett (2010)

Toe Fat

Toe Fat (1970)

Toe Fat 2 (1971)

Thornley

Come Again (2004)

Tiny Pictures (2009)

Thunder

Laughing on Judgement Day (1992)

Behind Closed Doors (1995)

T. Rex

Electric Warrior (1971)

UFO

Phenomenon (1974)

Force It (1975)

No Heavy Petting (1976)

Lights Out (1977)

Obsession (1978)

Strangers in the Night (1979)

No Place to Run (1980)

The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent (1981)

Making Contact (1983)

UK

Danger Money (1979)

Umphrey’s McGee

Safety in Numbers (2006)

The Bottom Half (2007)

Uno

Uno (1974)

Villainy

Mode. Set. Clear. (2012)

Wax

American English (1987)

A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes (1989)

Ween

The Mollusk (1997)

Wishbone Ash

Pilgrimage (1971)

Argus (1972)

Wishbone Four (1973)

Live Dates (1973)

There’s the Rub (1974)

New England (1976)

Classic Ash (1977)

Front Page News (1977)

No Smoke Without Fire (1978)

Just Testing (1980)

Wings

Band on the Run (1973)

Venus and Mars (1975)

Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976)

Wings over America (1976)

London Town (1978)

Wings Greatest (1978)

Back to the Egg (1979)

The Wombats:

This Modern Glitch (2011)

XTC

Go 2 (1978)

Yes

Going for the One (1977)

Tormato (1978)

Yumi Matsutoya

Sakuban Oaisimashō (1981)

Younger Brother

Last Days of Gravity (2007)

Vaccine (2011)

Yourcodenameis:milo

Rapt. Dept. (2005)

17 (2005)

Ignoto (2005)

Music videos

Paul Young – “Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)” (1983)

Rainbow – “Street of Dreams” (1983)

Robert Plant – “Big Log” (1983)

Yes – “Owner of a Lonely Heart” (1983)

Intaferon – “Get Out of London” (1983)

Kevin Kitchen – “Tight Spot” (1984)

Nik Kershaw – “Wouldn’t It Be Good” (1984)

David Gilmour – “Blue Light” (1984)

David Gilmour – “All Lovers Are Deranged” (1984)

Nik Kershaw – “The Riddle” (1984)

Nik Kershaw – “Wide Boy (1984)

Nik Kershaw – “Don Quixote” (1985)

Belouis Some – “Imagination” (1985)

Belouis Some – “Some People” (1985)

Glass Tiger – “Thin Red Line” (1985)

Glass Tiger – “Someday” (1985)

Ministry – “Over the Shoulder” (1985)

The Cult – “Love Removal Machine” (1987)

Pink Floyd – “Learning to Fly” (1987)

Pink Floyd – “The Dogs of War” (1987)

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe – “Brother of Mine” (1989)

Bruce Dickinson – “Tattooed Millionaire” (1990)

Bruce Dickinson – “All the Young Dudes” (1990)

Helloween – “Kids of the Century” (1991)

Alan Parsons – “Turn It Up” (1993)

Pink Floyd – “High Hopes” (1994)

Richard Wright – “Night Of a Thousand Furry Toys” (1996)

The Designers Behind Our Favorite Album Covers STORM THORGERSON Album Covers 10cc: Sheet Music (1974) The Original Soundtrack (1975) How Dare You!