The Peel Session (Syd Barrett album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Peel Sessions
Type = ep
Artist = Syd Barrett


Released = January 25 1987
Recorded = 24 February 1970
Genre = Psychedelic rock
Length = 12:32
Label = Strange Fruit SFPS043
Producer = John Walters
Reviews =

*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qmf2zf0heh4k~T1 link]
Last album = "Syd Barrett"
(1974)
This album = "Syd Barrett: The Peel Sessions"
(1987)
Next album = "Opel"
(1988)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = "Syd Barrett: The Peel Session" reissue cover

"The Peel Session" is a collection of recordings by Syd Barrett released in 1987. This EP contains the five songs he performed for the John Peel Show, recorded on February 24, 1970 and transmitted March 14 the same year.

Track listing

All songs written by Syd Barrett (with the possible exception of "Two Of A Kind" -- see below).

# "Terrapin" - 3:02
# "Gigolo Aunt" - 3:35
# "Baby Lemonade" - 2:37
# "Effervescing Elephant" - 0:57
# "Two Of A Kind" - 2:28

Note that "Two Of A Kind" was credited to Rick Wright on the original Peel Session release, but to Barrett on later releases, including "". According to David Gilmour, Wright wrote the song but an increasingly confused Barrett insisted it was his own composition (and wanted to include it on "The Madcap Laughs").cite book |title=Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd |first=Mike |last=Watkinson |coauthors=Pete Anderson |pages=p. 92] When asked about the matter in a 1996 interview, Wright's reply was enigmatic: "Can't answer, I am looking into this." [cite web | title=All The Wright Answers from Pink Floyd's Keyboardist 1996 | url=http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews/rww/rww1.html]

Personnel

*Syd Barrett: Acoustic guitar, vocals.
*David Gilmour: Bass guitar, electric guitar, organ, backing vocals.
*Jerry Shirley: Percussion.

References