Once naive little record collector that I was, it actually took me a few years to realise that “A Nice Pair” was actually a repackaging of Floyd’s first two albums, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” and “A Saucerful of Secrets“
I think I bought this album cheaply from Martin’s newsagent in Eastleigh’s Market Street. For [...]
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09-11-09
News in 1973 (Part V)
[... "news in 1973" continued from Part IV]
I read it in the Sunday Papers…
Other news from 1973 includes…
March 17th: The Queen opened the modern London Bridge. Spanning the Thames, it crosses from Southwark to the City area at the western end of what is commonly referred to as the “pool of London”. A bridge has existed at [...]
06-11-09
July 24th 1973
“Went to get £3.50 from the Halifax – difficult job. Went up Trev’s for the day and borrowed Fragile, Dark Side of the Moon + Greasy Truckers Party”
I wonder why it would have been difficult for me to have withdrawn £3.50 from the Halifax? Perhaps it threatened to bring down the entire UK banking system?
Both [...]
05-22-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part X
A 70-odd page “History of Music” would not be complete without a closing reference to Welsh rock giants, Man, would it?
However, I do think the comment about Pink Floyd’s new concept album “Dark Side of the Moon” – considering the subsequent success and ubiquity of their 1975 opus – makes me appear to be something [...]
09-14-08
Number Ones of 1972 (Part 1)
In this ”debut diary year” of 1972 I have spoken a lot about the albums I either bought, borrowed and/or taped.
It would be fair for readers to think these albums would represent what I would have listened to the most in 1972.
Fair, but wrong.
Every Sunday, almost without fail, I would avidly listen to the “Pick of the Pops” show [...]
08-05-08
October 30th 1972 (II)
“went up Trev’s – borrowed Ummug. + In+Out of Focus”
… and it was the second part of today’s entry that proved my ‘issue’ was not with Focus but with that particularly bad pressed vinyl.
“In & Out of Focus” was Focus’ debut album, originally released at the very start of the seventies. Several decades on [...]
06-27-08
September 16th 1972
“went up trevs for afternoon – bor’d Meddle, Argus, If 2 / City 2, Spurs 1″
City spank Tottenham whilst I apparently purloin three more albums to commit to tape…
Pink Floyd’s Meddle was the band’s 1971 precursor to “Dark Side of the Moon“. It includes amongst its 6 cuts the fantastic freefall 24-minute opus, “Echoes“, which is an ambitious [...]
