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Pink floyd the piper at the gates of dawn 40th anniversary edition.
He wrote most of the material and his songs unlike later pf songs that made good use of the melancholy and the menacing were rooted in whimsy and english folklore.
The piper at the gates of dawn was pink floyd s debut album and the man behind the guitar and main vocal mic at the time was a pleasant charming fellow named roger syd barrett.
The only album made under founding member syd barrett s leadership it takes its title from chapter seven of kenneth grahame s 1908 novel the wind in the willows which refers to the nature god pan and was recorded at emi studios in london from february to may 1967.
2007 marks the 40th anniversary of pink floyd s first album piper at the gates of dawn and kicks off a long term pink floyd catalog campaign.
The 40th anniversary edition of the piper at the gates of dawn overseen by producer james guthrie who engineered and co produced the wall and who first cleaned up piper for its 1994 reissue.
In commemoration of the anniversary capitol emi will release piper as a deluxe 3 cd limited edition and a 2 cd stereo mono version.