PINK FLOYD Piper at the Gates FIRST PRESSING MONO

£ 106

$ 140

£ 106 Sold For

Apr 18, 2006 Sold Date

Apr 11, 2006 Start Date

£ 20 Start price

10 Number Of Bids

Great Britain Country Of Seller

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Description

Side 1 XAX 3419-1 Side 2 XAX3420-1

Front cover: slight creasing over Rick Wright's faces

Back cover: good apart from owner's stamp

Inner cover; quite tired - see photo

Vinyl: very light surface mark across side 2 tracks 3 & 4 (just visible but not audible) otherwise excellent. Light spindle marks. This LP has only been played on good quality hi-fi systems - never on an autochanger. Vinyl is amazingly good.

I bought this LP after hearing Pink Floyd at the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road. Rather unwisely I spent the evening leaning against the bass speaker. Syd Barrett was in full swing. I knew Rick Wright slightly (we were at the same school and had mutual friends). I talked to him after the gig about some light shows that I had seen at the Fillmore. I never saw him again as he disappeared into the pop stratosphere shortly after. I really regret stamping the back cover - a temporary residient at our communal flat held the belief that 'all property is theft' which ment that he helped himself to everyone else's stuff.

A photo of Rick Wright in school uniform dated 1953 is included in the sale.

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