Pink Floyd Nice Pair Saucerful Of Secrets / Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 1st Press
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Pink Floyd Nice Pair Saucerful Of Secrets / Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 1st Press Gatefold Double Album
1st Press Matrix: YAX 3419 - 1 and YAX 3420 - 1 YAX 3633- 1 and YAX 3634 - 2
Harvest label SHDW 403
For the condition of the cover see the pictures. Top right front cover a label has been removed.
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. They achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. Distinguished by their philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, extended compositions, and elaborate live shows, they are one of the most commercially successful and influential groups in popular music history.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership. The album, named after the title of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and featuring a kaleidoscopic cover photo of the band taken by Vic Singh, was recorded from February to May 1967 and released on 4 August 1967. It was produced by Beatles engineer Norman Smith and released in 1967 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom and Tower in the United States, in August and October respectively. Two of the album's songs, "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive", became long-term mainstays of the band's live set list, while other songs were performed live only a handful of times.
The release of the album in the US was timed with the band's tour of the US. The US version of the album has a rearranged track list. This version omits "Astronomy Domine", "Flaming", and "Bike" and contains the UK non-album single, "See Emily Play". In the UK, no singles were released from the album, but in the US, "Flaming" was offered as a single.
A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 29 June 1968 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom (following adverts in Melody Maker giving that date) and released on 27 July 1968 in the United States by Tower Records. The album was recorded before and after Syd Barrett's departure from the group. With Barrett's behaviour becoming increasingly unpredictable, David Gilmour was recruited to compliment Barrett, and eventually to replace him.
As a result, A Saucerful of Secrets became the only non-compilation Pink Floyd album on which all five band members appeared, the first for Gilmour, with him appearing on five songs (all except "Remember a Day" and "Jugband Blues"), and the last for Barrett, with him on three ("Remember a Day", "Jugband Blues" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"). "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" was the only song all five members appeared on together. The band's drummer, Nick Mason, has declared A Saucerful of Secrets to be his favourite Pink Floyd album. Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Astronomy Domine" Barrett and Wright 4:12 2. "Lucifer Sam" Barrett 3:07 3. "Matilda Mother" Wright and Barrett 3:08 4. "Flaming" Barrett 2:46 5. "Pow R. Toc H."- Syd Barrett
- Roger Waters
- Richard Wright
- Nick Mason
- Syd Barrett
- Roger Waters
- Richard Wright
- Nick Mason
- Psychedelic rock[1]
- experimental rock[2]
- space rock[3]
Producer Norman Smith
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Let There Be More Light" Roger Waters Wright, Waters, and Gilmour 5:38 2. "Remember a Day" Richard Wright Wright 4:33 3. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" Waters Waters 5:28 4. "Corporal Clegg" Waters Gilmour, Wright and Mason 4:13 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "A Saucerful of Secrets"
- I. "Something Else" (3:57)
- II. "Syncopated Pandemonium" (3:07)
- III. "Storm Signal" (1:34)
- IV. "Celestial Voices" (3:19)"
- Waters
- Wright
- Nick Mason
- David Gilmour
- Psychedelic rock[1]
- space rock[2]
Producer Norman Smith
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