You couldn’t necessarily say the same about Atom Heart Mother or Ummagumma. In Meddle you can almost hear The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here and even The Wall. It’s a perfect opening, as iconic in its way as Elvis Presley belting out ‘ Well since my baby left me.’ at the start of Heartbreak Hotel, or death knocking at the door at the start of Beethoven’s Fifth.Įchoes is the centrepiece of Meddle, an album that is now widely regarded as the one where Pink Floyd got everything just right. The ’ping’ on the opening and close of Echoes was, as we all know, produced by Richard Wright playing a single note on a concert grand piano and feeding the signal through a Leslie rotating speaker. ![]() ![]() Or a heart monitor, measuring out a life.
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