The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

  

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was the first Hipgnosis album cover commission from Genesis / Peter Gabriel, a relationship that lasted for the first three Peter Gabriel solo albums (Car, Scratch and Melt). A while ago Storm Thorgerson told us what he remembered about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway:

"We conceived of a story board or comic strip, but made of photographs.....A major part of this involved the character stepping outside the comic strip and taking a detached view, looking back at this life, a step considered necessary in the process of self-realisation. Thus the main character is seen literally stepping out of the picture, leaving a man-shaped white hole in his wake."

All the imagery was photographed in black and white negative and the resulting prints were reassembled, adjusted in size, comped together and recopied to provide a single flat artwork.

Fresh from a Peter Gabriel signing session today, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is back at Hypergallery HQ, safely tucked away in the plan chests ready to head off to new homes all around the world.

A nice strong signature from Peter Gabriel gives this print, the Hipgnosis album cover art from his final album with Genesis, a sense of completeness.

Photographs of Peter Gabriel signing the prints will be up on hypergallery.com soon!