![]() ![]() You have, of course, heard that the album was named capriciously after a headline in a newspaper saying "Atom Heart Mother named!" - well here that Evening Standard article is reproduced in full, and the full explanation of why and how it happened is given. Silhouettes of David Gilmour, an anxious, focussed smoking Roger Waters, Dave and Rick Wright at the mixing desk, Nick Mason in profile and the John Alldis choir (fully name checked!). The book is in coffee table format (hardback, wider than taller) and contains never before seen black and white photographs of Pink Floyd at the Abbey Road recording sessions. This book is all about the making of side one of `Atom Heart Mother' a mostly forgotten, but strangely compelling instrumental involving motorcycles, horses, a choir and big brass band. No, not `Piper at the Gates of Dawn' - Not Dark Side Of The Moon. This book is worth getting for Nick Mason's witty ½ page foreword, especially his very final sentence which explains (tongue in cheek) why Ron Geesin was not credited on Pink Floyd's very first number one record. After 40 years Atom Heart Mother remains a much-loved record, and The Flaming Cow explores its new-found cult status that has led to it being studied for the French Baccalauréat.Ī great book for Pink Floyd geeks, and perhaps as a present for a youngster interested in exploring prog rock. The Flaming Cow rose again, firstly in France, then in London in 2008. Alongside unpublished photographs from the Abbey Road recording sessions (the only ones taken) and the subsequent performances in London and Paris, Geesin goes on to describe how the title was chosen, why he was not credited on the record, how he left Hyde Park in tears, and why the group did not much like the work. From the time drummer Nick Mason visited Geesin’s damp basement flat in Notting Hill, to the last game of golf between bassist Roger Waters and Geesin, this book is an unflinching account about how one of Pink Floyd’s most celebrated compositions came to life. The Flaming Cow offers a rare insight into the brilliant but often fraught collaboration between the band and Geesin, the result of which became known as Atom Heart Mother – the title track from the Floyd’s first UK number one album. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.īy the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned to composer Ron Geesin for help in writing their next album. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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