Pink Floyd : Piper at The Gates of Dawn ( UK Release with Bonus Tracks )

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

 is the debut 

studio album 

by the English

 rock band 

Pink Floyd

 and the only 

one made under

 founding member 

Syd Barrett's

 leadership. 

The album,

 named after the title 

of chapter seven of

 Kenneth Grahame's 

The Wind in the Willows 

and featuring a

 kaleidoscopic cover photo 

of the band taken by

 Vic Singh, 

was recorded from 

February to May 1967 

and released on 

 August 5 1967. 

It was produced by 

Beatles engineer 

Norman Smith 

and released in 1967 

by EMI Columbia 

in the

 United Kingdom 

and 

Tower 

in the United States,

 in August and 

October respectively.

The release of

 the album

 in the US

 was timed with

 the band's tour

of the US.

 In the UK, 

no singles were released 

from the album, 

but in the US

 "Flaming" 

was offered as a single.

 The US version

 of the album

 has a

 rearranged 

track list, 

and contains

 the UK 

non-album single,

 "See Emily Play".

 Two of the album's songs,

 "Astronomy Domine" 

and

 "Interstellar Overdrive", 

became long-term 

mainstays of the band's

 live set list, 

while other songs 

were performed live 

only a handful of times.

Since its release, 

the album has been

 hailed as one 

of the best

 psychedelic rock albums.

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