Discs of Pink Floyd return on vinyl – Express

The catalog discography of Pink Floyd will begin to be reissued on vinyl on the 3rd of June. For the first time in about two decades, the English band’s discs will return to stores in LP format, faithfully reproducing the graphic of the original editions, with mastering by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman and pressed in vinyl 180 grams. In this first Friday of June will leave “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968), “More” (1969) and “Ummagumma” (1969), and by the end the year will be announced the remaining schedule of releases. Edits will seal of Pink Floyd Records and manufacture and distribution of Parlophone / Warner Music in Europe and Columbia / Sony Music in the rest of the world.

” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn “(1967)

“A Saucerful of Secrets “(1968)

“More” (1969)

“Ummagumma” (1969)

Due to the change of ownership of master to Pink Floyd Records until the disks that were on the market will be relaunched with new legal text. Except for the edition in LP’s latest album, “The Endless River” (2014), which is still available, few others had recent releases in this format: “The Division Bell” went on double LP to celebrate the 20th anniversary in 2014, and “the Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and “the Wall” came out in LP in 2011-12 under the campaign Why Pink Floyd …?. The last major action of the genre was the “’97 Vinyl Collection” which this year brought together in a box or not supplied “Piper”, “The Wall”, “Atom Heart Mother”, “Dark Side,” “Wish”, ” Animals “and the compilation” Relics “.

Let us recall that on 27 November last year, Parlophone did surprise a limited edition of 1050 copies of a double EP (7 ”),” 1965 (Their First Recordings) “, with the subjects ‘Lucy Leave’, ‘Double Bo’, ‘Remember Me’, ‘Walk with Me Sydney’, ‘Butterfly’ and ‘I’m a King Bee’. It was at the time reported by several media that this was due to the urgent need to renew the copyright on these songs before passed 50 and fall into the public domain. These issues have been remastered and were being prepared for inclusion in a rarities box dedicated to the early years of Pink Floyd can still come out this year. The EP is only available in sites retail discs and costs between 280 and 500 euros.