SPECIAL EDITION OF PINK FLOYD'S THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN TO BE RELEASED BY CAPITOL/EMI TO MARK BAND'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY
3-CD Deluxe Package Presents Digitally Remastered Original Album In Stereo and Mono Mixes, Plus Pink Floyd's 1967 Singles and Previously Unreleased and Rare Bonus Tracks
Hollywood, California – June 22, 2007 – 2007 is Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary, and to mark this milestone, a 3-CD special edition of the band's debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, originally released on August 5, 1967, will be available on August 28 from Capitol/EMI in the U.S., and in the U.K. and Europe on September 3 from EMI Records. The 3-CD package includes mono and stereo mixes of the original album, plus the band's 1967 singles and previously unreleased and rare bonus tracks.
The packaging, designed by longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book with the original Vic Singh photo on the front, and holds the three CDs, along with an eight-page reproduction of one of Syd Barrett's notebooks. Newly remastered by James Guthrie, the first two discs contain the full 'Piper' album, represented in both stereo and mono mixes. The third disc includes bonus tracks, including all of Pink Floyd's singles from 1967 ("Arnold Layne," "See Emily Play," and "Apples And Oranges"), plus the B-sides "Candy And A Current Bun" and "Paintbox." Other tracks include an exclusive edit of "Interstellar Overdrive," previously available only on an EP released in France, and the 1967 stereo version of "Apples And Oranges," which has never before been officially released.
The album's title, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, came from the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows. It was the fledgling Pink Floyd's first album, charting at Number 6 in the U.K. The band members were guitarist, singer, and main songwriter Syd Barrett, bassist Roger Waters, keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason. The album was recorded in Abbey Road's Studio 3 and produced by EMI resident producer, Norman Smith, while the Beatles were in the studio next door working on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
"Barrett's flair for the unpredictable still has the power to knock you off balance" - BLENDER
The current single-disc version of The Piper At The Gates of Dawn will be replaced with a new two-disc version that will feature the mono and stereo versions of the album. This package will not include the Syd Barrett booklet or the third disc of extras.
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The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (Special Edition) (3-CD)
CD 1 (Stereo) & CD 2 (Mono) - original tracklist
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7. Insteller Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. Scarecrow
11. Bike
CD 3
1. Arnold Layne (2007 Digital Remaster)
2. Candy And A Currant Bun (2007 Digital Remaster)
3. See Emily Play (2007 Digital Remaster)
4. Apples And Oranges (2007 Digital Remaster)
5. Paintbox (2007 Digital Remaster)
6. Interstellar Overdrive (Take 2) (French Edit) (2007 Digital Remaster)
7. Apples And Oranges (previously unreleased stereo version)
8. Matilda Mother (previously unreleased alternate take)
9. Interstellar Overdrive (previously unreleased alternate take 6)
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