Picnic. A Breath of Fresh Air - Various Artists


Cover

Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SGSSS 1-2.
1970 - U.K.

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Deep Purple, Barclay James Harvest, The Battered Ornaments, Shirley & Dolly Collins, Pretty Things, Roy Harper, Bakerloo, Kevin Ayers, The Greatest Show on Earth, Third Ear Band, Forest, Pete Brown & Piblokto!, Panama Limited, Quatermass, Michael Chapman, Tea And Symphony, Edgar Broughton Band.

Cover design, photos (A. Powell/S. Thorgerson): HIPGNOSIS.


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Gatefold

Inner gatefold

Labels disc 1

Labels disc 2

Harvest Sampler
Two Record Set
Cover sticker


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  1. WIKIPEDIAJune 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM


    Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air is a sampler issued by the Harvest Records label, originally released in 1970 and notable for including the previously unreleased Pink Floyd song, "Embryo".

    The similarly-entitled A Breath of Fresh Air – A Harvest Records Anthology 1969–1974 released on 14 May 2007 borrowed most of the original title, but had only three tracks in common with its precursor (Pink Floyd's "Embryo", Panama Limited's "Round and Round", and Quatermass' "Black Sheep of the Family"). Although most tracks featured were of similar vintage, the album was a retrospective compilation, rather than a promotional sampler.

    The inclusion of "Embryo", without the approval of Pink Floyd, and which the band considered unfinished, resulted in the album's prompt withdrawal. Some editions do not credit the track to Pink Floyd on the inside cover.

    None of the artists who were featured on the album are portrayed on the outer cover.

    The front and rear of the gatefold show a group of people wearing World War II gas masks sitting in sand dunes with a dead bird on the sand.

    The interior of the sleeve displays the covers of most of the albums from which the tracks are taken against the background of an incoming sea tide. This background features a family walking across the sands in a washed-out monochrome.

    The cover design and photographs are credited to Hipgnosis, famous for their progressive rock album cover designs.

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