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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
''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 founder 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 taken by Vic Singh, was recorded from February to May 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.
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 tracklist, and contains the UK non-album single, "See Emily Play". Two of the album's songs, "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive", became central to the band's setlist around this period, while other songs were performed only a handful of times.
Since its release, the album has been hailed as one of the best psychedelic rock albums of all time. 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".
== Background ==
Architecture students Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright and art student Syd Barrett had performed under various group names since 1962, and began touring as "The Pink Floyd Sound" in 1965. They turned professional on 1 February 1967 when they signed with EMI, with an advance fee of £5,000. Their first single, a song about a kleptomaniac transvestite titled "Arnold Layne", was released on 11 March to mild controversy, as Radio London refused to air it.〔〔Cavanagh 2003, p. 19〕 About three weeks later the band were introduced to the mainstream media. EMI's press release claimed that the band were "musical spokesmen for a new movement which involves experimentation in all the arts", but EMI attempted to put some distance between them and the underground scene from which the band originated by stating that "the Pink Floyd does not know what people mean by psychedelic pop and are not trying to create hallucinatory effects on their audiences."〔Schaffner 2005, p. 57〕 The band returned to Sound Techniques studio to record their next single, "See Emily Play", on 18 May.〔Schaffner 2005, p. 66〕〔Chapman 2010, p. 171〕 The single was released almost a month later, on 16 June, and reached number six in the charts.〔Blake 2008, p. 88–89〕 Pink Floyd picked up a tabloid reputation for making music for LSD users. The popular broadsheet ''News of the World'' printed a story nine days before the album's recording sessions began, saying that "The Pink Floyd group specialise in 'psychedelic music', which is designed to illustrate LSD experiences."〔Cavanagh 2003, p. 42〕 Contrary to this image, only Barrett was known to be taking LSD; authors Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne contend that he was the "only real drug user in the band".
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