Pink Floyd Debut Gets Deluxe Reissue

07/12/07
. (BW&BK) 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, originally released on 5 August 1967, will be available in North America on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.

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 notebooks.

Newly remastered by James Guthrie, 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
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