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Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 795.
1971 - U.K.
Album cover designed, inner sleeve photo: HIPGNOSIS.
Outer sleeve photos: Bob Dowling.
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Back cover
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Gatefold
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Inner gatefold
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Pink Floyd
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Roger Waters, Nick Mason, David Gilmour & Richard Wright
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Memorabilia:
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"The new Pink Floyd album is like throwing a party for your ears
when all your ears were expecting were a few friends over for pinochle"
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Melody Maker Magazine, Novermber 13, 1971.
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ReplyDeleteMeddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released by Harvest Records on 5 November 1971 in the United Kingdom.
The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) and Morgan Studios.
The album's title Meddle is a play on words: a medal, and to interfere. Storm Thorgerson of the art-design group Hipgnosis originally suggested a close-up shot of a baboon's anus for the album cover photograph.
He was overruled by the band, who informed him via an intercontinental telephone call while on tour in Japan that they would rather have "an ear underwater".
The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear, underwater, collecting waves of sound (represented by ripples in the water).
Thorgerson later expressed dissatisfaction with the cover, claiming it to be his least favourite Pink Floyd album sleeve: "I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover".
Thorgerson's colleague Aubrey Powell shared his sentiments, saying: "Meddle was a mess. I hated that cover. I don't think we did them justice with that at all; it's half-hearted."
The gatefold contains a group photograph of the band, which would be their last until 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason.