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About three weeks later the band were introduced to the mainstream media.

Their first single, a song about a kleptomaniac transvestite titled "Arnold Layne," was released on 11 March to mild controversy – Radio London refused to air it. They turned professional on 1 February 1967 when they signed with EMI, with an advance fee of £5,000. In 2012, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was voted 347th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".Īrchitecture students Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright and art student Syd Barrett had performed under various group names since 1962, and began touring as "The Pink Floyd Sound" in 1965.

Special limited editions of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn were issued to mark its thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries in 19, respectively, with the latter containing bonus tracks. In 1973, it was packaged with the band's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, and released as A Nice Pair to introduce new fans to the band's early work after the success of The Dark Side of the Moon. Since its release, the album has been hailed as one of the best psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s. Two of the album's songs, "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive", became central to the band's setlist around this period, while other songs were performed only a handful of times. The US version of the album has a rearranged tracklisr, and contains the UK non-album single, "See Emily Play". In the UK, no singles were released from the album, but in the US "Flaming" was offered as a single. The release of the album in the US was timed with the band's tour of the US. It was produced by Beatles engineer Norman Smith and released in 1967 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom and Tower in the United States, in August and October respectively. The album, named after the title of chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and featuring a kaleidoscopic cover photo taken by Vic Singh, was recorded from February to May 1967. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership.