“We went through a few phrases… they went off to play in America and left me to get on with it, stripped to my underpants”: Atom Heart Mother’s fusion of ordinary and extraordinary sounds gave Pink Floyd their first No.1 album

Pink Floyd 1970.

From the hell of an Italian trip to the heaven of Hyde Park, the year leading up to the release of Atom Heart Mother was a life-changing time for Pink Floyd. In 2016 Prog looked back at the events that helped shape the band’s first No.1 album.

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