"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Kenneth Grahame

On this day in 1967, according to the Associated Press, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the first Pink Floyd album, was released in the United Kingdom on the Columbia label." The album's title refers to the god Pan as depicted in the book The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame.

"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"

Illustration by Paul Bransom

"The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge of the river bank." So begins "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," Chapter 7 of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. To read that chapter in its entirety, click here.

To read more about the Pink Floyd album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, click here.