On August 5, 1967, the first album of one of the bands that would change the contemporary musical paradigm was released.
Pink Floyd Pink Floyd is one of the most important rock bands still today. It has been a musical influence in many countries, including our own. On August 5th, it will be 57 years since the release of the debut album by an underground band called Pink Floyd on Abbey Road. Their first work was called The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
A great poetic inspiration when choosing the name of the album was the book by the writer Kenneth Grahame “The Wind in the Willows”, a text that Syd Barret was reading and he chose it to give mystery, reverie and mysticism to the album.
The story of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd’s first work, which turns 57
These were hectic years in London, the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at the same time that Pink Floyd was working on their first work. Music was constantly evolving and new places were appearing to occupy. With the help of Syd Barret, Pink Floyd knew how to transmit psychedelic environments through sounds and the interaction between the lights, the audience, and the weather of the night to the ears of the spectators.
Obviously, the more conservative sector did not accept this new experiment at all and quickly related them to the world of drugs. It was said that they made music for LSD addicts, or at least that they described those sensations.
What was a problem for other bands was an experimental breakthrough for Pink Floyd. The interaction between an idealistic, dreamy, and structure-averse fine arts student and folk poetry blended perfectly with the other members of the group, architecture students who somehow structured the mess.
Source: Ambito
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