Difficult To Cure

Difficult To CureThis Rainbow album cover design is one of a collection of archival inkjet prints that we released in 2014, celebrating previously unpublished album cover art from the Hipgnosis archives. Originally put forward as a cover for Black Sabbath's 1978 album, Never Say Die!, the surgeons are posed in a mock rock'n'roll manner, parodying a similar narcissism which we found faintly ludicrous. Po's friend George Galatzon took the lead role whilst the backup

This limited edition silkscreen print puts on centre stage the unique typography created by Central Station Art for the Happy Mondays' album Wrote For Luck

was Godley and Creme's third album since their departure from 10cc

and graced the cover of what was arguably Sean Ryder's greatest album

It is the third publication in the trilogy of album cover art prints

2 and 3 were printed in archival inkjet to achieved a clean b&w photographic image

Talking to Pitchfork in 2011

backed by the jazz playing duo of Humpty Dumpty and the Cheshire Cat

but you don't know that

Though originally intended for a band called Catherine Wheel

is it a travel weary image for a much travelled rock'n'roller Ian Thornley

Formed in 1967

They join a collection of prints celebrating the body of work created by James Marsh for Talk Talk throughout the 1980s