A Nice Pair - Pink Floyd


Cover

Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHDW 403.
1973 - U.K.

Cover design, photographs: HIPGNOSIS.
Illustration: Colin Elgie 100 % Studios, Bob Lawrie N.T.A.
Graphics: George Hardie N.T.A, Richard Evans.
Photographs: David Gilbert, Dave Larcher, Robert Failla, Vic Singh and others.


Back cover

Gatefold

Inner gatefold

Inner sleeve

Inner sleeve

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Labels

Inner sleeve

Inner sleeve

A Saucerful Of Secrets
Labels



Pink Floyd


Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Nick Mason & David Gilmour



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  1. WIKIPEDIAJune 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM


    A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing their first two albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets in a new gatefold sleeve.

    The album was released in December 1973 by Harvest and Capitol in the United States and the following month in the United Kingdom by Harvest and EMI. It reached number 36 in the US Billboard album charts and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in March 1994.

    The cover is by Hipgnosis, who designed many other Pink Floyd covers, and consists of four grids of nine small images, including some proposed but previously unused album cover designs. Several images depict a well-known phrase or saying in the form of a visual pun; for instance, the centre right-hand panel on the front depicts "a fork in the road", while the bottom right represents "a fine kettle of fish".

    Another picture presents two puns on the album title: a nice pear, and an image of a woman's pair of breasts; the latter is censored with a black bar on some copies, while other US copies opted to cover it with a purple and white sticker over the shrink wrap.

    Initial copies had a picture of a Mr. W.R. Phang's dental surgery on the cover (a genuine business photographed in Hammersmith, west London), but Dr. Phang objected because NHS dentists were not permitted to advertise, and the picture was replaced with one of a gargling monk.

    US editions from the 1980s restored both the nudity and the W.R. Phang photo. Other photos illustrate "laughing all the way to the bank", and "nip in the air", through the use of a levitating Japanese person.

    The selection of band photos on the inside cover also varies, with some copies including a photo of a shirtless, disturbed-looking Syd Barrett from The Madcap Laughs cover photo session, while others replace it with a photo of a smiling Barrett sitting by a car.

    The album was the band's next US release after The Dark Side of the Moon, and introduced new fans to the earlier psychedelic sound of the Syd Barrett period of Pink Floyd, which contrasted greatly to the style of their more recent work.

    Following the worldwide re-issue of the original two albums on CD, including the original UK version of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Nice Pair is now out of print.

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