The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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Released | 4 August 1967 | |||
Recorded | 21 February – 21 May 1967 | |||
Studio | EMI, London | |||
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Length | 41:54[3] | |||
Label | EMI Columbia | |||
Producer | Norman Smith | |||
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut
The album was recorded at
The album was released to critical and commercial success, reaching number 6 on the UK Albums Chart.[8] In the United States, it was released as Pink Floyd in October on Tower Records with an altered track listing that omitted three songs and included "See Emily Play". In the UK, no singles were released from the album, but in the US, "Flaming" was offered as a single. Two of its songs, "Astronomy Dominé" and "Interstellar Overdrive", became long-term mainstays of the band's live setlist, while other songs were performed live only a handful of times. In 1973, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was packaged with the band's second album A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) and released as A Nice Pair, to introduce the band's early work to new fans gained with the success of The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
The album has since been hailed as a pivotal psychedelic music recording. Special limited editions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn were issued to mark its 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries, with the former two releases containing bonus tracks. In 2012, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was placed at number 347 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", moved up to number 253 in the 2020 edition.[9][10]
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.[11] Around 1966, the group began to achieve underground success for their influential performances at London's UFO Club.[12] They turned professional on 1 February 1967 when they signed with EMI, with an advance fee of £5,000.[13][14][15] 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.[13][16]
About three weeks later, the band were introduced to the mainstream media.[nb 1] 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."[17][18] The band returned to Sound Techniques studio to record their next single, "See Emily Play", on 18 May.[19][20] The single was released almost a month later, on 16 June, and reached number six in the charts.[21][8]
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."[22] 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".[23]
Recording
Pink Floyd's record deal was a £5,000 advance over five years, low royalties and no free studio time,[24] which was poor by today's standards, but typical for the time.[25] It included album development, which was very unusual; EMI, unsure of exactly what kind of band they had signed, gave them free rein to record whatever they wanted.[24]
They recorded the album at EMI's
The album is made up of two different classes of songs: lengthy improvisations from the band's live performances and shorter songs that Barrett had written.[33] Barrett's LSD intake escalated part-way through the album's recording sessions.[34] Although in his 2005 autobiography Mason recalled the sessions as relatively trouble-free, Smith disagreed and claimed that Barrett was unresponsive to his suggestions and constructive criticism.[35][36] In an attempt to build a relationship with the band, Smith played jazz on the piano while the band joined in. These jam sessions worked well with Waters, who was apparently helpful, and Wright, who was "laid-back". Smith's attempts to connect with Barrett were less productive: "With Syd, I eventually realised I was wasting my time."[37] Smith later admitted that his traditional ideas of music were somewhat at odds with the psychedelic background from which Pink Floyd had come. Nevertheless, he managed to "discourage the live ramble", as band manager Peter Jenner called it, guiding the band toward producing songs with a more manageable length.[18][38]
Barrett would end up writing eight of the album's songs and contributing to two instrumentals credited to the whole band, with Waters creating the sole remaining composition "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk".[39] Mason recalled how the album "was recorded in what one might call the old-fashioned way: rather quickly. As time went by we started spending longer and longer."[40]
I opened the door and nearly shit myself ... by Christ it was loud. I had certainly never heard anything quite like it before.
Abbey Road engineer Pete Bown describing his introduction to "Interstellar Overdrive"[41]
Recording started on 21 February
"Percy the Rat Catcher" received overdubs across five studio sessions and then was mixed in late June, eventually being given the name "Lucifer Sam".[40] Songwriting for the majority of the album is credited solely to Barrett, with tracks such as "Bike" having been written in late 1966 before the album was started.[33][65][66] "Bike" was recorded on 21 May 1967 and originally entitled "The Bike Song".[33] By June, Barrett's increasing LSD use during the recording project left him looking visibly debilitated.[34]
Release
In June 1967 before the album was released, the single "See Emily Play" was sold as a 7-inch 45 rpm record, with "The Scarecrow" on the B-side, listed as "Scarecrow".[67] The full album was released on 4 August 1967, including "The Scarecrow".
Pink Floyd continued to perform at the UFO Club, drawing huge crowds, but Barrett's deterioration caused them serious concern. The band initially hoped that his erratic behaviour was a phase that would pass, but others, including manager Peter Jenner and his secretary June Child,[nb 6] were more realistic:
... I found him in the dressing room and he was so ... gone. Roger Waters and I got him on his feet, we got him out to the stage ... and of course the audience went spare because they loved him. The band started to play and Syd just stood there. He had his guitar around his neck and his arms just hanging down.[69]
To the band's consternation, they were forced to cancel their appearance at the prestigious National Jazz and Blues Festival, informing the music press that Barrett was suffering from nervous exhaustion. Jenner and Waters arranged for Barrett to see a psychiatrist – a meeting he did not attend. He was sent to relax in the sun on the Spanish island of Formentera with Waters and Sam Hutt (a doctor well-established in the underground music scene), but this led to no visible improvement.[70][71][72][73]
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The original UK
About being handled on Tower Records, Jenner commented that: "In terms of the U.K. and Europe it was always fine. America was always difficult. Capitol couldn't see it. You know, 'What is this latest bit of rubbish from England? Oh Christ, it'll give us more grief, so we'll put it out on Tower Records', which was a subsidiary of Capitol Records [...] It was a very cheapskate operation and it was the beginning of endless problems The Floyd had with Capitol. It started off bad and went on being bad."[81]
Packaging
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It was unusual and different, and they were delighted with it, and Syd did his own little drawing on the back cover.
Vic Singh[82]
Up-and-coming society photographer
Barrett came up with the album title The Piper at the Gates of Dawn; the album was originally titled Projection up to as late as July 1967.[84] The title was taken from that of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows[85][86] which contains a visionary encounter with the god Pan, who plays his pan pipe at dawn.[87] It was one of Barrett's favourite books, and he often gave friends the impression that he was the embodiment of Pan.[nb 7][39][89] The moniker was later used in the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", in which Barrett is called "you Piper".[90] The cover was one of several Pink Floyd album covers used on a series of Royal Mail stamps issued in May 2016 to commemorate 50 years of Pink Floyd.[91]
In 2018, the album was reissued in its mono mix. With this version came with a new packaging box with the original record cover inside. This new design was done by Hipgnosis' Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon and includes a gold-embossed version of the graphic by Syd Barrett which features on the back cover of the original LP.[92]
Critical reception
At the time of release, both
Legacy
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Source | Rating |
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MusicHound | 3.5/5[98] |
NME | 9/10[99] |
Paste | 9.5/10[100] |
Pitchfork | 9.4/10[101] |
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"When I first heard their music, I wasn't terribly impressed," recalled then-EMI employee Alan Parsons. "I was working at [EMI's headquarters] Hayes and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn album came to me for duplication. And I was thinking if this was to be the music of the future, I wasn't looking forward to it. But, like a lot of stuff, you get to like bits of it over a long period."[104]
In 1999, Rolling Stone gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "the golden achievement of Syd Barrett". In 2003, it was ranked number 347 on the magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", maintaining that rank in the 2012 update and climbing to number 253 in the 2020 reboot of the list.[9][10]
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is hailed as a psychedelic masterpiece and
James E. Perone says that The Piper at the Gates of Dawn became known as a concept album in later years, because listeners wanted to play it all the way through rather than pick out a favourite song.[106] While Beatles biographer Philip Norman agrees that The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a concept album,[107] other authors contend that Pink Floyd did not start making concept albums until 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon. Author George Reisch called Pink Floyd the "undisputed" kings of the concept album, but only starting from Dark Side.[108] In July 2006, Billboard described The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as "one of the best psychedelic rock albums ever, driven by Barrett's oddball narratives and the band's skill with both long jams and perfect pop nuggets".[1]
Reissues
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was reissued in the UK in 1979 as a stereo vinyl album,[nb 8] and on CD in the UK and US in 1985.[nb 9] A digitally remastered stereo CD, with new artwork, was released in the US in 1994,[nb 10] and in 1997 limited edition 30th anniversary mono editions were released in the UK, on CD and vinyl.[nb 11][76] The latter included a selection of art prints, and a six-track bonus CD, 1967: The First Three Singles.[109]
In 1973, the album, along with A Saucerful of Secrets, was released as a two-disc set on Capitol/EMI's Harvest Records label, titled A Nice Pair to introduce fans to the band's early work after the success of The Dark Side of the Moon.[110] On the US release, the original four-minute studio version of "Astronomy Dominé" was replaced with the eight-minute live version found on Ummagumma.[111]
For the 40th anniversary, a two-disc edition was released on 28 August 2007,[112] and a three-disc set was released on 11 September.[113] The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was remastered and re-released on 26 September 2011.[114] For Record Store Day 2018, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was reissued in its mono mix with a bespoke envelope package containing the original cover art.[115]
Live performances
The band promoted the album with a series of concerts. They played dates in
Communication between record company and band was almost non-existent, and Pink Floyd's relationship with Tower and Capitol was therefore poor. Barrett's mental condition mirrored the problems that King encountered;
Shortly after their return from the US, beginning 14 November, the band supported Jimi Hendrix on a tour of England,[73] but on one occasion Barrett failed to turn up and they were forced to replace him with singer/guitarist David O'List borrowed from the opening band the Nice.[70] Barrett's depression worsened the longer the tour continued.[117] Longtime Pink Floyd psychedelic lighting designer Peter Wynne-Willson left at the end of the Hendrix tour, though he sympathised with Barrett, whose position as frontman was increasingly insecure. Wynne-Willson, who had worked for a percentage, was replaced by his assistant John Marsh, who collected a lesser wage.[118] Pink Floyd released "Apples and Oranges" (recorded prior to the US tour on 26 and 27 October)[119] but, for the rest of the band, Barrett's condition had reached a crisis point, and they responded by adding David Gilmour to their line-up, initially to cover for Syd's lapses during live performances.[70]
Some songs on the album were rarely played live.
Track listing
UK release
All tracks are written and sung by Syd Barrett, unless otherwise noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Astronomy Dominé" | Barrett and Richard Wright | 4:12 | |
2. | "Lucifer Sam" | 3:07 | ||
3. | "Matilda Mother" | Wright and Barrett | 3:08 | |
4. | "Flaming" | 2:46 | ||
5. | "Pow R. Toc H." |
| instrumental, wordless vocals by Barrett, Waters and Wright | 4:26 |
6. | "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" | Waters | Waters | 3:05 |
Total length: | 20:44 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Interstellar Overdrive" |
| instrumental | 9:41 |
2. | "The Gnome" | 2:13 | ||
3. | "Chapter 24" | 3:42 | ||
4. | "The Scarecrow" | 2:11 | ||
5. | "Bike" | 3:21 | ||
Total length: | 21:08 41:54 |
UK 8-track release
No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Astronomy Dominé" | Barrett and Wright | |
2. | "Lucifer Sam" | Barrett | |
3. | "Matilda Mother" | Wright and Barrett |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Flaming" | Barrett | ||
2. | "Pow R. Toc H." | instrumental, wordless vocals by Barrett, Waters and Wright | ||
3. | "Bike" | Barrett |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" | Waters | Waters | |
2. | "Chapter 24" | Barrett | ||
3. | "The Scarecrow" | Barrett | ||
4. | "Interstellar Overdrive—Part 1" | instrumental |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Interstellar Overdrive—Conclusion" | instrumental | ||
2. | "The Gnome" | Barrett |
US release
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "See Emily Play" | Barrett | 2:53 | |
2. | "Pow R. Toc H." | instrumental | 4:26 | |
3. | "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" | Waters | Waters | 3:05 |
4. | "Lucifer Sam" | Barrett | 3:07 | |
5. | "Matilda Mother" | Barrett and Wright | 3:08 | |
Total length: | 16:39 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "The Scarecrow" | Barrett | 2:11 | |
2. | "The Gnome" | Barrett | 2:13 | |
3. | "Chapter 24" | Barrett | 3:42 | |
4. | "Interstellar Overdrive" | instrumental | 9:41 | |
Total length: | 17:47 |
40th anniversary edition
Released in 2007, some releases have 2 CDs (first CD in mono and second CD with same tracks in stereo) and some releases include the third CD.
No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Astronomy Dominé" | Barrett, Wright | 4:17 |
2. | "Lucifer Sam" | Barrett | 3:09 |
3. | "Matilda Mother" | Wright, Barrett | 3:05 |
4. | "Flaming" | Barrett | 2:46 |
5. | "Pow R. Toc H." (Barrett, Roger Waters, Wright, Nick Mason) | Instrumental, wordless vocals by Barrett, Waters | 4:24 |
6. | "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters) | Waters | 3:07 |
7. | "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) | Instrumental | 9:41 |
8. | "The Gnome" | Barrett | 2:14 |
9. | "Chapter 24" | Barrett | 3:53 |
10. | "The Scarecrow" | Barrett | 2:10 |
11. | "Bike" | Barrett | 3:27 |
Total length: | 42:13 |
No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Astronomy Dominé" | Barrett, Wright | 4:14 |
2. | "Lucifer Sam" | Barrett | 3:07 |
3. | "Matilda Mother" | Wright, Barrett | 3:08 |
4. | "Flaming" | Barrett | 2:46 |
5. | "Pow R. Toc H." (Barrett, Roger Waters, Wright, Nick Mason) | Instrumental, wordless vocals by Barrett, Waters | 4:26 |
6. | "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters) | Waters | 3:06 |
7. | "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) | Instrumental | 9:40 |
8. | "The Gnome" | Barrett | 2:13 |
9. | "Chapter 24" | Barrett | 3:42 |
10. | "The Scarecrow" | Barrett | 2:11 |
11. | "Bike" | Barrett | 3:24 |
Total length: | 41:57 |
No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length |
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1. | "Arnold Layne" | Barrett | 2:57 |
2. | "Candy and a Currant Bun" | Barrett | 2:45 |
3. | "See Emily Play" | Barrett | 2:54 |
4. | "Apples and Oranges" | Barrett | 3:05 |
5. | "Paintbox" (Wright) | Wright | 3:45 |
6. | "Interstellar Overdrive (Take 2) (French Edit)" | Instrumental | 5:15 |
7. | "Apples and Oranges (Stereo Version)" | Barrett | 3:11 |
8. | "Matilda Mother (Alternative Version)" | Barrett | 3:09 |
9. | "Interstellar Overdrive (Take 6)" | Instrumental | 5:03 |
Total length: | 32:04 |
Personnel
Numbers noted in parentheses below are based on original UK album tracklist and CD track numbering.
Pink Floyd[127]
- percussion(4), vocals
- Nick Mason – drums (1–7, 11), percussion (2, 4, 5, 8–11)
- Roger Waters – bass guitar (all tracks); slide whistle (4), percussion (4), gong (9; uncredited), vocals
- percussion(4; uncredited), vocals
Production
- Syd Barrett – rear cover design
- Peter Bown – engineering
- Peter Jenner – intro vocalisations on "Astronomy Dominé" (uncredited)[128]
- Vic Singh – front cover photography
- Norman Smith – production, vocal and instrumental arrangements, drum roll on "Interstellar Overdrive"[129]
- Doug Sax, James Guthrie – 1994 remastering at The Mastering Lab[130]
- James Guthrie, Joel Plante – 40th Anniversary Edition and 2011 remastering at das boot recording[131][132]
Charts
Chart (1968) | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC)[133] | 6 |
US Billboard 200[134] | 131 |
Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[135] | 60 |
UK Albums (OCC)[133] | 44 |
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[136] | 28 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[137] | 39 |
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[138] | 34 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[135] | 46 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[139] | 48 |
Italian Albums (FIMI)[140] | 16 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[141] | 10 |
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[142] | 38 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[143] | 70 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[144] | 43 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[145] | 87 |
UK Albums (OCC)[133] | 22 |
Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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French Albums ( SNEP)[146]
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150 |
Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[139] | 48 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[147] | 15 |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Italy (FIMI)[148] | Gold | 25,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[149] 1994 release |
Gold | 100,000‡ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Cultural references
- The album The Dark Side of the Moog IV (1996) by Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook is subtitled "Three Pipers at the Gates of Dawn".
References
Footnotes
- ^ They were already well known in the underground scene.
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.
- ^ An early, unoverdubbed, shortened mix of the album's "Interstellar Overdrive" was used for a French EP release that July.[46]
- ^ 14 takes of "Astronomy Dominé" were recorded,[56] over a seven-hour session.[57]
- ^ "Percy the Rat Catcher"."[60][61]
- ^ Child was employed by Peter Jenner as a secretary and general production assistant.[68]
- ^ Barrett believed he had a dream-like experience meeting Pan, with characters from the book. Andrew King said Barrett thought Pan had given him understanding of how nature works.[45][88]
- ^ UK EMI Fame FA 3065[76]
- ^ UK EMI CDP 7463842, US Capitol CDP 7463842[76]>
- ^ US Capitol CDP 7463844[76]
- ^ UK EMI LP EMP 1110, EMI CD EMP 1110[76]
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External links
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- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn at Discogs (list of releases)