Rise of British psychedelia - Pink Floyd's debut
Rise of British psychedelia by Faizul Khan Tanim In 1967, two phenomenal things happened. The Beatles were recording their mammoth studio album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a quintessential record of that era. And a band who called themselves Pink Floyd, were recording their debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Recording began in 1967 in the English capital London, in Studio 3 of EMI’s Abbey Road Studio at St John’s Wood, four musicians – Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Rick Wright were producing, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, a title taken from one of the chapter headings of Kenneth Grahame's children's book, The Wind in the Willows. The album was produced by Norman Smith, an EMI staff member who had previously engineered all of the Beatles' recordings up to 1965's Rubber Soul. Formed in 1965, the name Pink Floyd derived from the creative genius of the band Syd Barrett's thoughts and was coined from the names of two blues musicians Pink And...