Review: Remember when rock album art was legendary? 'Squaring the Circle' celebrates the form

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Director (and rock photographer) Anton Corbijn convincingly argues the importance of the British design team Hipgnosis, whose clients included Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel.

In the vinyl heyday, record-buying was a thrilling process. You rushed home, got the plastic off, let that waxy disc slide carefully out so it met your thumb at the edge and middle finger at the spindle hole. But once the warm analog sounds of your favorite band wafted from your speakers, that cardboard sleeve wasn’t tossed aside.

You stared at that cover and drank in the album art, especially when itMaybe nothing, maybe everything, according to Anton Corbijn’s highly entertaining documentary “Squaring the Circle ,” which traces the impact of the beautifully confounding rock album cover — Pink Floyd’s star cow , Wings’ cheeky jailbreak , Led Zeppelin’s mystic, tinted children — to the disruptive, sought-after British design outfit Hipgnosis: idea manThe movie makes a convincing case that in the counterculture era between...

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