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Pink Floyd |
Syd Barrett |
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Arnold Layne / Candy And A Current Bun¹ Barrett (2:52) / Barrett (2:43) Tower 333, 4/67 T20 US and UK picture sleeve issued with promo copies only; First UK single (Columbia DB-8156, 3/67) |
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The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream(4/29/67) |
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See Emily Play / The Scarecrow Barrett (2:55) / Barrett (2:07) Tower 356, 7/67 T20 Picture sleeve was issued with promo copies only |
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Tonite Let's All Make Love In London(9/26/67) |
Swingin' London, featuring Pink & The Boys |
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn |
Tower ST-5093 | |
10/26/67 BB RS500 [UK: 8/4/67] T20 | |
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See Emily Play | Barrett | 2:55 |
Pow R Toc H | Barrett-Mason-Waters-Wright | 4:16 |
Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk | Waters | 3:06 |
Lucifer Sam | Barrett | 3:05 |
Matilda Mother | Barrett | 2:59 |
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The Scarecrow | Barrett | 2:07 |
The Gnome | Barrett | 2:11 |
Chapter 24 | Barrett | 3:51 |
Interstellar Overdrive | Barrett-Mason-Waters-Wright | 9:42 |
First US Tour Pink and the boys had quite a disastrous inaugural American tour. Visa issues led to numerous cancelled concerts on the left coast, before finally debuting at Bill Graham's Winterland on Nov 4. Then there was Syd's, shall we say, odd behaviour during the taping of The Pat Boone Show (Syd was smart). And a stoned turn on American Bandstand. 2023 update: New link includes the video. Remembering Pink Floyd's bizarre US TV debut on 'American Bandstand' in 1967. The Syd Barrett Blog has disappeared. There is now a documentary on Syd. Read more here (American Songwriter website). |
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Flaming¹ / The Gnome Barrett (2:44) / Barrett (2:11) Tower 378, 11/67 |
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Apples And Oranges¹ / Paint Box Barrett (3:02) / Wright (3:28) Columbia DB-8310 [UK], 11/67 Syd's last gasp. Timing from German 45. |
In December, Syd's friend, David Gilmour, is asked to join and provide lead guitar work.
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It Would Be So Nice¹ / Julia Dream Wright (3:10) / Waters (2:28) Tower 426, 6/68 |
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A Saucerful Of Secrets |
Tower ST-5131 | |
7/27/68 [UK: 6/29/68] T20 | |
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Let There Be More Light | Waters | 5:32 |
Remember A Day | Wright | 4:27 |
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun | Waters | 5:23 |
Corporal Clegg | Waters | 4:07 |
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A Saucerful Of Secrets | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 11:52 |
See Saw | Wright | 4:30 |
Jugband Blues | Barrett | 2:57 |
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Let There Be More Light³ / Remember A Day³ Waters (3:00) / Wright (2:40) Tower 440, 8/68 |
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Point Me At The Sky / Careful With That Axe, Eugene Gilmour-Waters (3:37) / Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright (5:43) Columbia DB-8511 [UK], 12/68 Why didn't we get this?, what a b-side! (Relax, it's on Relix in 71). Timing from German 45. |
Where was Pink Floyd playing on July 20, 1969 ??
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More(8/4/69) |
Soundtrack album below |
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More (Soundtrack) |
Tower ST-5169 | |
8/9/69 BB [UK: 6/13/69] T20 | |
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Cirrus Minor | Waters | 5:16 |
The Nile Song | Waters | 3:24 |
Crying Song | Waters | 3:25 |
Up The Khyber | Mason-Wright | 2:07 |
Green Is The Colour | Waters | 2:53 |
Cymbaline | Waters | 4:45 |
Party Sequence | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 1:10 |
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Main Theme | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 5:27 |
Ibiza Bar | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 3:17 |
More Blues | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 2:13 |
Quicksilver | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 7:03 |
A Spanish Piece | Gilmour | 1:00 |
Dramatic Theme | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 2:11 |
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Music Power & European Music Revolution, Festival Actuel: "Zappa joins Pink Floyd," 10/25/69, Frank jams on Interstellar Overdrive. Nobody involved remembers this. Read about it at Best Classic Bands |
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Ummagumma |
Harvest STBB-388 | |
11/10/69 BB [UK: 11/7/69] T20 | |
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Astronomy Domine† | Barrett | 8:25 |
Careful With That Axe, Eugene‡ | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 8:47 |
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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun‡ | Waters | 9:21 |
A Saucerful Of Secrets† a. Something Else b. Syncopated Pandemonium c. Storm Signals d. Celestial Voices |
Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 12:51 |
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Sysyphus Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 |
Wright | 4:29 1:45 3:07 3:38 |
Grantchester Meadows | Waters | 7:23 |
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict |
Waters | 4:47 |
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The Narrow Way (Parts I, II, III) | Gilmour | 12:14 |
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party Part I—Entrance Part II—Entertainment Part III—Exit |
Mason | 8:55 |
Note: † recorded at Mothers Club, Birmingham (4/27/69) and ‡ at Manchester College of Commerce (5/2/69)
Each of the pieces of the studio album are performed by that one band member only. Looking back at the project, they don't like it too much.
More about the cover @ wiki.
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The Madcap Laughs |
Harvest SABB-765 [UK] | |
N/R [UK: 1/70] UK | |
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Terrapin | Barrett | 5:04 |
No Good Trying | Barrett | 3:26 |
Love You | Barrett | 2:30 |
No Man's Land | Barrett | 3:03 |
Dark Globe | Barrett | 2:02 |
Here I Go | Barrett | 3:11 |
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Octopus | Barrett | 3:47 |
Golden Hair | Barrett-Joyce | 1:59 |
Long Gone | Barrett | 2:50 |
She Took A Long Cold Look At Me | Barrett | 1:55 |
Feel | Barrett | 2:17 |
If It's In You | Barrett | 2:26 |
Late Night | Barrett | 3:10 |
Note: This albumn never got much airplay on WNEW-FM (maybe Terrapin) and it is kinda weird, but Syd belongs here with his creation.
Released here as a two-fer with his second album, Barrett, in Sept, 1974
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Zabriskie Point(2/9/70) |
Several unique tracks on the soundtrack album |
An Hour With Pink Floyd April 30, 1970: Pink Floyd record several tunes at the old, empty Fillmore Auditorium for the local public broadcasting station in San Francisco. The show, complete with artsy intros (it's the 70s damn it!), is broadcast locally only on KQED-TV and stereo simulcast on KQED-FM on January 26, 1971 (see link below). The special would be broadcast nationally by PBS in 1973. It was finally released in 2016 as part of the giant Pink Floyd box set The Early Years. Read more about this concert at KQED. |
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Atom Heart Mother |
Harvest SKAO-382 | |
10/10/70 BB [UK: 10/2/70] #1 | |
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Atom Heart Mother Suite a) Father's Shout b) Breast Milky c) Mother Fore d) Funky Dung e) Mind Your Throats Please f) Remergence |
Geesin-Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 23:38 |
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If | Waters | 4:25 |
Summer '68 | Wright | 5:29 |
Fat Old Sun | Gilmour | 5:19 |
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast a) Rise And Shine b) Sunny Side Up c) Morning Glory |
Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 12:55 |
Note: That's Lulubelle III on the cover (under the original mottled blue sky—since flattened to plain blue).
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KQED-TV, San Francisco: "An Hour With Pink Floyd," 1/26/71, Here's a rare group performance of Grantchester Meadows from that KQED special. |
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The Body(2/24/71) |
Roger and David help Ron Geesin's soundtrack |
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Relics: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios |
Harvest SW-759 | |
7/15/71 BB [UK: 5/14/71] UK | |
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Arnold Layne†(45) | Barrett | 2:52 |
Insterstellar Overdrive† | Barrett-Mason-Waters-Wright | 9:38 |
See Emily Play† | Barrett | 2:54 |
Remember A Day† | Wright | 4:28 |
Paintbox†(UK 45) | Wright | 3:35 |
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Julia Dream(45) | Waters | 2:35 |
Careful With That Axe, Eugene(UK 45) | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 5:40 |
Cirrus Minor | Waters | 5:13 |
The Nile Song | Waters | 3:23 |
Biding My Time(prev unr) | Waters | 5:03 |
Bike†(UK 1st LP) | Barrett | 3:21 |
Note: For the 1996 CD reissue, a sculpture based on Nick's 1971 UK cover art was created by Storm Thorgerson (of Hipgnosis) (last note).
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Meddle |
Harvest SMAS-832 | |
10/30/71 BB [UK: 11/5/71] T20 | |
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One Of These Days | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 5:43 |
A Pillow Of Winds | Gilmour-Waters | 5:29 |
Fearless (interpolating "You'll Never Walk Alone") | Gilmour-Waters (Rodgers-Hammerstein) | 6:08 |
San Tropez | Waters | 3:43 |
Seamus | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 2:14 |
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Echoes | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 23:32 |
Note: More about the cover @ wiki.
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One Of These Days³ / Fearless (*Interpolating "You'll Never Walk Alone")³ Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright (3:29) / Gilmour-Waters (*Rodgers-Hammerstein) (3:13) Capitol 3240, 11/71 |
We're not in Kansas, Toto! The album that (finally) put Pink Floyd on the map. After knocking out a soundtrack album (1972 French film, La Vallee), Pink and the group descended into Apple Studios (yes, same one that gave us The Beatles and S F Sorrow) to work on what would become their ticket to the stars. Reusing some music from The Body and Zabriskie Point, they honed the music to tell the story of life—from birth to death. They presented the work (then titled Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics) at the Rainbow Theatre on Feb 17, 1972. Work then proceeded on smoothing out the edges and was finally released as an album a year later. |
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The Dark Side Of The Moon |
Harvest SMAS-11163 | |
3/1/73 #1 RS500 [UK: 3/23/73] T20 | |
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Speak To Me | Mason | 1:30 |
Breathe | Gilmour-Waters-Wright | 2:43 |
On The Run | Gilmour-Waters | 3:30 |
Time | Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright | 6:53 |
The Great Gig In The Sky | Wright | 4:15 |
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Money | Waters | 6:30 |
Us And Them | Waters-Wright | 7:34 |
Any Colour You Like | Gilmour-Mason-Wright | 3:24 |
Brain Damage | Waters | 3:50 |
Eclipse | Waters | 1:45 |
Note: Dark Side was on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts for 923 weeks (that's 17+ YEARS)
More about the packaging @ wiki