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Album Review

Release date: 09 January 1987

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Classic '60s British spook-rock reissued

If you saw Pink Floyd at Live8 and wondered what all the fuss was about, then your instincts were right. Pink Floyd are one of those bands that even their fans have to make excuses for. Pompous, self-important, joyless and big-selling, they’ve become shorthand for grumpy middle-aged bank manager rock. Most famous for ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ – a record about half as clever as it...

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Pink Floyd News

'The Dark Side Of The Moon' artwork designer Storm Thorgerson dies

'The Dark Side Of The Moon' artwork designer Storm Thorgerson dies

Thorgerson also created sleeves for Biffy Clyro, Led Zeppelin and Muse

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason saves his old drum shop

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason saves his old drum shop

Mason steps in to fund the shop where he bought his first kit

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters marries for a fourth time

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Singer ties the knot with his long-time fiancée Laurie Durning

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Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn: Wikipedia Album Entry

Pink Floyd's first album, originally released in 1967. It was an incredibly influential album on the psychedelic rock scene. The lyrics talk about space, scarecrows, gnomes, bicycles and fairy-tales along with psychedelic instrumental passages.

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Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Lyrics

Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam Lyrics

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side.
That cat's something I can't explain.

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There was a king who ruled the land
His majesty was in command
With silver eyes the scarlet eagle
Showers silver on the people

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Pink Floyd - Flaming Lyrics

Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown
Yippee
You can't see me

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Pink Floyd - The Gnome Lyrics

I want to tell you a story
About a little man
If I can
A gnome named Grimble Grumble

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Pink Floyd - Chapter 24 Lyrics

A movement is accomplished in six stages
And the seventh brings return
The seven is the number of the young light
It forms when darkness is increased by one

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Pink Floyd - Scarecrow Lyrics

The black and green scarecrow as everyone knows

Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere.

He didn't care.

He stood in a field where barley grows.

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