Pink Floyd Piper At The Gates...

摘要

It's writ large in pop history that The Beatles spent the spring of 1967 recording their classic Sgt Pepper... album in EMI's Abbey Road Studio 2. It's less well-documented, but arguably more remarkable, that Pink Floyd wore just along the corridor creating the first masterpiece of British psychedelia, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Having started out as The Pink Floyd Blues Band, this unassuming Cambridge quartet had been turned on to the potential of psychedelic music by their manager, Peter Jenner, who had spent time in San Francisco grooving (as one did in those days) to The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Jenner came back to England and famously told Pink Floyd's leader Syd Barrett about 'My Little Red Book', a song played by the Los Angeles cult band Love.