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A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed

Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974

They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moonbut they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ten years ago by a mad legend named Syd Barrett. Their unknown first albums capture the trance of that explosively unreal era before Barrett's tragic disappearance.

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