Piper Interview in The Sunday Express (India)PINK FLOYD
THE PIPER HISTORY
Piper 40th. Anniversary Deluxe 3 CD Box Set.
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was Pink Floyd's first record album 1967 has become a classic. The Piper photographs have been displayed in galleries, collected by the many fans and collectors all over the world and have good media coverage.
Vic Singh photographed and designed the album cover, unlike subsequent Pink Floyd albums. The album remains one of the few to actually feature the band members on the front cover. The album's title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, where Water Rat and Mole, while searching for a lost animal, have a spiritual experience. "This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me," whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. "Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!". The Piper referred to is the Greek god Pan. The title was later referenced by Stevie Wonder in the song "Power Flower" from the 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants ("Fire and air, earth water I prepare/I am the piper at the gates of dawning").
This is what the fans have to say who have bought the Piper photos.
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To commemorate the first anniversary of Syd Barrett's death, we have published, in an electronic journal called Ecclectica (Brandon University Canada), a series of poems with illustrations and music.
Redferns Music Picture Gllery 'Shine You Crazy Diamond' Feb-April 2006.
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The grand original and evergrowing Robyn Hitchcock, Syd Barrett Discussion Group.
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