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The soundscape has been rumoured to be Pink Floyd's final, unreleased album The Big Spliff; Atom Heart Mother: The dripping tap sound at the end of the album was sometimes locked into the inner groove on vinyl editions so it would play infinitely until the stylus was removed from the vinyl. On CD versions, the dripping tap plays for 17 seconds ...
Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 2 June 1972 by Harvest and Capitol Records. It serves as the soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. It was recorded in two sessions in France, while Pink Floyd were in the midst of touring, and produced by the band.
To promote the album, Pink Floyd released the double A-side single "Have a Cigar" / "Welcome to the Machine". Wish You Were Here was certified gold in the UK and the US in its year of release and topped the charts in several European countries. By 2004, it had sold an estimated 13 million copies worldwide.
"Echoes" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the sixth and last track on their 1971 album Meddle. It is 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes long, the second longest of their discography, eight seconds shorter than Atom Heart Mother Suite, and takes up the entire second side of the original LP.
Meddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released by Harvest Records on 5 November 1971 in the United Kingdom. [3] The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) and Morgan Studios.
Animals is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977, [2] by Harvest Records and Columbia Records. Pink Floyd produced it at their new studio, Britannia Row Studios, in London throughout 1976.
Hipgnosis covers were noted for their quirky humour, such as the cover for the Pink Floyd double-LP compilation A Nice Pair, which featured an array of visual puns. Another example was the album There's the Rub for Wishbone Ash using a picture of cricketer and ball.
A Saucerful of Secrets was the first of several Pink Floyd album covers created by the design group Hipgnosis. [59] After the Beatles , it was the second time that EMI had permitted one of their acts to hire outside designers for an album jacket. [ 60 ]