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The song is about a man whose strange hobby is stealing women's lingerie from washing lines. [6] According to Roger Waters, "Arnold Layne" was actually based on a real person: "Both my mother and Syd's mother had students as lodgers because there was a girls' college up the road so there were constantly great lines of bras and knickers on our washing lines and 'Arnold' or whoever he was, had ...
When the collection Relics was released in 1971, critic Dave Marsh wrote in Creem that he had expected "Candy and a Currant Bun" to be on it. (It was not.) His album review was largely composed of a paean to this missing track, writing in part that "It's simply the definitive 1967 British rock'n'roll single.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 4 August 1967 by EMI Columbia. [8] It is the only Pink Floyd album made under the leadership of founder member Syd Barrett (lead vocals, guitar); he wrote all but three tracks, with additional composition by members Roger Waters (bass, vocals), Nick Mason (drums), and Richard Wright (keyboards ...
Surprisingly, they also scored hit singles with Barrett-penned songs like “Arnold Layne” (about a man imprisoned for stealing women’s underclothes) and “See Emily Play,” and climaxed ...
"Arnold Layne" Released: 26 December 2006 Remember That Night is a live concert recording of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour 's solo concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 29, 30 & 31 May 2006 as part of his On an Island Tour .
The original mono mixes of all six of these songs were first compiled on The Early Singles, a bonus disc in the 1992 Shine On box set. They would later be issued again on the three-disc, 40th anniversary edition of Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 2007, with "Scarecrow" appearing on the album and the other five tracks appearing on the third disc.
"See Emily Play" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released as their second single on 16 June 1967 on the Columbia label. [8] Written by original frontman Syd Barrett, it was released as a non-album single, but appeared as the opening track of Pink Floyd, the US edition of the band's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967).
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón discussed the symbolic meaning of the cat in “Disclaimer.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blanchett reveals that by “introducing an animal” in the ...