Band: Pink Floyd Album Title:  The Division Bell Year: 1995 by Dave Purcell   Next Album                   Back to Magazine

The idea for this cover was communication.  The band felt the album was about communication, or the lack of it, about childhood, and about personal ghosts.  These ideas can be seen in the design of the cover.  Firstly communication can be seen by the line of lights between the profile heads. Childhood by the location near Cambridge, where the band grew up. Personal ghosts by the heads facing the viewer, which appears as one.

The cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson and Keith Breeden, and photography by Tony May and Rupert Truman.  The heads were two giant sculptures made from metal, there were also two made from stone which appeared on the cassette version of the album.  The sculptures were 22ft high and weighed half a ton.  The concept of the two heads was based on a drawing known as the vase illusion.