PINK FLOYD - ARNOLD LAYNE rare debut 45 - STUNNING

	£		56
	$		74

PINK FLOYD - Arnold Layne / Candy and a Currant Bun

extremely hard to find 1967 Columbia debut '45 DB 8156

with "THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD" and "SOLD IN U.K." label text

Side One matrix: 7XCA 27877-1

Side Two matrix: 7XCA 27878-1

1 T & 1 GD STAMPERS with KT in run-out grooves and around side 1 spindle hole. 

Vinyl in stunning EXCELLENT++ condition

Original company sleeve in very nice EXCELLENT condition

a stunning copy of this classic debut 45 by PINK FLOYD, becoming harder and harder to find these days, especially in this condition. This is the best copy I've ever offered for sale, or even seen! The vinyl still retains its original shine, and the labels are NEAR MINT with absolutely minimal wear. You will wait a long, long time to find a better copy!

While Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s, they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band. Soon after they first began playing together in the mid-'60s, they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett, the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material. The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters (bass), Rick Wright (keyboards), and Nick Mason (drums). The name Pink Floyd, seemingly so far-out, was actually derived from the first names of two ancient bluesmen (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). And at first, Pink Floyd were much more conventional than the act into which they would evolve, concentrating on the rock and R&B material that were so common to the repertoires of mid-'60s British bands.

Pink Floyd quickly began to experiment, however, stretching out songs with wild instrumental freak-out passages incorporating feedback, electronic screeches, and unusual, eerie sounds created by loud amplification, reverb, and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings. In 1966, they began to pick up a following in the London underground; onstage, they began to incorporate light shows to add to the psychedelic effect. Most importantly, Syd Barrett began to compose pop-psychedelic gems that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements (particularly in the haunting guitar and celestial organ licks) with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic, child-like wonder.

The group landed a recording contract with EMI in early 1967 and made the Top 20 with a brilliant debut single, "Arnold Layne," a sympathetic, comic vignette about a transvestite. The follow-up, the kaleidoscopic "See Emily Play," made the Top Ten. The debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, also released in 1967, may have been the greatest British psychedelic album. Dominated almost wholly by Barrett's songs, the album was a charming funhouse of driving, mysterious rockers ("Lucifer Sam"), odd character sketches ("The Gnome"), childhood flashbacks ("Bike," "Matilda Mother"), and freakier pieces with lengthy instrumental passages ("Astronomy Domine," "Interstellar Overdrive," "Pow R Toc H") that mapped out their fascination with space travel. The record was not only like no other at the time; it was like no other that Pink Floyd would make, coloured as it was by a vision that was far more humorous, pop-friendly, and light-hearted than those of their subsequent epics.

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