Pink Floyd/David Gilmour news
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:28 pm
This year is Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary and to mark this, a special edition of the band's debut album 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', which was originally released on 5 August 1967, is being re-issued on 3rd September. The packaging, designed by longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book with the original Vic Singh photo on the front, and holds 3 CD discs, along with an 8 page reproduction of one of Syd Barrett's never publicly seen before notebooks. Newly remastered by James Guthrie from the original recordings, Discs 1 and 2 will contain the full 'Piper' album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Disc 3 includes bonus tracks, including the following: all the Pink Floyd singles from 1967, ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', and 'Apples And Oranges'), plus the B-sides 'Candy And A Current Bun' and 'Paintbox' as well as previously unissued versions of 'Matilda Mother', 'Apples And Oranges' (1967 stereo version) and two rare edits of 'Interstellar Overdrive', one previously only available on an EP in France (French Edit) and take six of the track from the original recording sessions discovered in the EMI achieve.
David's new DVD will be released on Monday 17th September in Europe and Tuesday 18th September in North America.
www.davidgilmour.com/dvd.htm
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Fat Old Sun with a blistering solo at the end. beautiful, stunning - you must watch, your life will be made better for it.