I guess I gave the game away when I showed The Endless River album from Pink Floyd last week.
It doesn't seem 50 years since they began. Six stamps were issued on 9 July 2016 to commemorate this milestone - or should I say, 'another brick in the wall?'
The albums were:
It doesn't seem 50 years since they began. Six stamps were issued on 9 July 2016 to commemorate this milestone - or should I say, 'another brick in the wall?'
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- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 1967 - named after Chapter 7 in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows.'
- Atom Heart Mother - 1970 - their first UK No. 1. It was also the first of their LPs not to feature the band's name.
- The Dark Side of the Moon - 1973 - over 50 million copies sold worldwide and entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest charting album.
- Wish You Were Here - 1975 Jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli played on the title track but is inaudible on the song.
- Animals - 1977 - appeared in the punk era; Johnny Rotten wore a T-shirt with the slogan 'I hate Pink Floyd.'
The albums protruding from the sleeves enabled me to enter these for this week's 'Shapes' on Sunday-stamps-II 87.
7 comments:
Hi Bob - very clever ... darker side of the moon. Wonderful range of ideas here ... the art work on records is incredible to see ... cheers Hilary
An incredible run for a band. And Pink Floyd's iconic album covers make for great record-shaped stamps.
Nothing like a vinyl album cover, nice to capture the moment of popping the pristine disc out ready to play.
I was looking forward to seeing these stamps. I was a bit late in my appreciation of Pink Floyd, so these album covers are unfamiliar to me!
These are wonderful stamps!I never have seen these before, and I never would have expected these to be on stamps, but I like it!
Pink Floyd made songs a little too lenghty for my (pre-teen at their dates of issue) ears in those days, but Animals was the very first Pink Floyd LP I owned, maybe because I love animals. And 'Wish you were here' was my second (and last; I then - in the eighties - became a 'New Wave' fan, in which the United Kingdom's music scenes have played a mayor role, too!).
Thank you for sharing!
I basically don't know what you are talking about, other than stamps.
Remember vinyl? A big canvas for cover art!
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