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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is the debut album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It is predominantly the work of Syd Barrett, the band leader and main song writer at that time. Released on August 5th 1967, the album reached #6 in the U.K, while in America it reached #131.

Contents

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  1. Astronomy Domine (4:12)
  2. Lucifer Sam (3:07)
  3. Matilda Mother (3:08)
  4. Flaming (2:46)
  5. Pow R. Toc H. (4:26)
  6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (3:06)
  7. Interstellar Overdrive (9:41)
  8. The Gnome (2:13)
  9. Chapter 24 (3:24)
  10. The Scarecrow (2:11)
  11. Bike (3:21)

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[edit] Credits

with

  • Norman Smith - Producer
  • Peter Brown - Engineer
  • Vic Singh - Cover Photography

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  • Recorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Reached #6 on the UK charts, and #131 on the US charts (with the title Pink Floyd)
  • "See Emily Play" substituted "Astronomy Domine", "Flaming" and "Bike" on the original US vinyl issue
  • The album's title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, where Water Rat and Mole, while searching for a lost animal, have a religious experience ("This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me," whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. "Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!"). The Piper referred to is the Greek god Pan.
  • In 2000 Q magazine placed The Piper at the Gates of Dawn at number 55 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 347 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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