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Designed by storm thorgerson, with hundreds of rare photos and illustrations. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. By contrast, pink floyd would write for live performances and use that experience to prepare for its recordings. He is best known for closely working with the group pink floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for led zeppelin, phish, black sabbath, peter gabriel, the alan parsons project, genesis, yes, muse, the mars volta and ween.
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