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#9 PINK FLOYD BIKE
T he title of Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, was appropriated from chapter seven of charismatic frontman Syd Barrett’s favourite children’s book, The Wind In The Willows by Scottish writer Kenneth Grahame. It’s a particularly apposite title given that Barrett’s own ultra-playful aesthetic of childlike whimsy underscores the album throughout. Though, funnily enough, all the indicators are that the album’s name was brought in right at the last minute to replace the less evocative working title of Projection.