CLASSIC ALBUM: Pink Floyd ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ (1967)
his was the first full album from Pink Floyd and a sparkling testament to the genius of Syd Barrett, whose songs take flight on surreal whimsy and sublime nursery rhyme lyrics ( bolstered by trippy, technicolour instrumentals The rest of the band are willing and able fellow travellers. The album was immediately pronounced sacred by the small cult of flower children and it remains the musical Mecca for British psychedelia. Sadly for Syd it was a brief flowering followed by a nervous breakdown. But his spirit has hovered over the band ever since.
