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The artist behind Primal Scream's Screamdelica logo and the Heavenly corporate bird, Paul Cannell, has committed suicide.

A long-term artist, after leaving school Cannell had bounced around various jobs, both obliquely related to graphic design (commercial priners) and not even obliquely related (he was a milkman for a while) before taking himself back to school to learn to paint as he thought it was a better option than "proper" work but couldn't do people. Through a chain of happy coincidence focused on the drummer from Flowered Up, he came to meet Jeff Barrett, who signed him up to produce work for the Heavenly roster; a more lucrative meeting with Alex Nightingale led to him being given studio space in the Creation offices.

Besides creating the legendary 'sun' for Screamdelica, he also produced the scattergun cut-and-paste of the Manic's You Love Us sleeve (often believed to be the work of Richey Edwards) along with work for the Telescopes and others.



Besides the work he did for the outside of Creation Records products, he was briefly on the roster himself, as a member of the band Crawl. They managed a single, but the album appears to have been lost in the collapse of Creation as the Oasis jet took off, leaving just a handfull of mp3s.

According to Drowned in Sound, until recently Cannell had been living in Cornwall.

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