In the summer of 1967 The Beatles were in Abbey Road's main studio recording Sgt Pepper, while in an adjoining studio Pink Floyd were recording their debut album 'The Piper At The Gates of Dawn'.
The album took its title from a chapter heading in Kenneth Grahame's children's novel 'Wind In The Willows'. The music was a continuation of what Pink Floyd had been playing at their UFO Club residency. The album proved to be the years most psychedelic experience with its distillation of pop, rock, jazz and free-form hallucinogenic nursery rhymes meandering through the grooves of the album. The spirit of band leader Syd Barrett is omnipresent, as if voices in his head hastening his descent into full blown madness. For me, Pink Floyd's best album.
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