Pink Floyd the Piper At The Gates Of Dawn First Uk Issue 1967 Blue Columbia

The first albums out of EMI s promotion department in London s Manchester Square contained the sticker Factory Sample - Not for Resale on the label.
WIKIPEDIA: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 3 and featuring a kaleidoscopic cover photo of the band taken by Vic Singh, was recorded from February to May 1967 and released on 5 August 1967.
It was produced by Beatlesengineer Norman Smith and released in 1967 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom and Tower in the United States, in August and October respectively.The release of the album in the US was timed with the band s tour of the US.
In the UK, no singles were released from the album, but in the US Flaming was offered as a single.
The US version of the album has a rearranged track list, and contains the UK non-album single, See Emily Play .
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.Since its release, the album has been hailed as one of the best psychedelic rock albums.
In 1973, it was packaged with the band s second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, and released as A Nice Pair to introduce new fans to the band s early work after the success of The Dark Side of the Moon.
Special limited editions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn were issued to mark its thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries in 1997 and 2007, respectively, with the latter release containing bonus tracks.
In 2012, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was voted 347th on Rolling Stone magazine s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .
IDENTIFIERS:First pressing with blank top right corner of the flip side of the sleeve.
Black label with blue Columbia lettering and a blue note logo.
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