Storm Thorgerson was born in Potters Bar Middx, in 1944, schooled at Summerhill free school and then Brunswick primary Cambridge. Secondary education at local grammar Cambs. High School for boys (no girls) and BA Hons in English and Philosophy from Leicester University (63 - 66) and finally an MA in film and TV from the Royal College of Art, London (66 - 69).

Hipgnosis in 1968 with Aubrey Powell (Po), a graphic design studio specialising in creative photography and working mainly in the music business designing album covers for many rock 'n' roll bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett and Styx, amongst others. Started a series of books on album cover art with Roger Dean called Album Cover Album, and with Hipgnosis wrote and designed Walk Away Rene 1978 and The Goodbye Look 1982 about their own stuff.

In 1983 Storm, along with Po and Peter Christopherson, formed Green Back Films and embarked on producing numerous rock videos including material for Paul Young, Yes, Nik Kershaw, Robert Plant, Interferon, Nona Hendryx, Big Country and many others and also long forms for Barry Gibb (Voyager), Yumi Matsutoya (Train of Thought), and Channel Q a heavy metal compilation for Polygram Records. Green Back and its partners went up in smoke in 1985.

Storm went solo, cos he had to, and continued making videos (Learning To Fly for Pink Floyd won best director at Billboard), and tried his hand at commercials (Tennants 'One Great Thing' won Golden Rose in Scotland). He continued designing album covers for Pink Floyd, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons, Anthrax, amongst others, and branched out into documentaries, making "Art Of Tripping" for Ch 4 in 1993, a two part exploration of the connections between drugs and artists.

In 1994 Storm directed six short films for Pink Floyd which were screened at concerts during their world tour, and also an hour long science documentary on the Hubble Constant for Equinox called "The Rubber Universe". In 1997 he compiled a book of his images for Pink Floyd called 'Mind Over Matter' published by Sanctuary Books. And in 97/98 wrote and directed an hour long documentary for Discovery channel about the (non) existence of Aliens subtitled Are We Alone? (Or was it We Are Alone).

Storm continues to design album covers (Phish, Ian Dury, Cranberries, Pink Floyd, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons, Ween etc etc), to execute assorted graphics for DVDs, websites, programmes, T-shirts and so on, and to direct the occasional film. He has written and designed several books including 100 Best Album Covers (Dorling Kindersley) and Eye Of The Storm (Sanctuary Books).

Has one son Bill (29) with first partner Libby, but now lives with Barbie (who has two children Adam and Georgia of her own), 5 cats and a budgerigar!