It certainly fit with the mood of the album in a way that somehow you don’t feel that an ape’s anus would have done. The band told him that they wanted something to do with water, maybe an ear underwater. The cover was supposed to have been a close-up picture of a baboon’s bum. It was packaged in a sleeve that Hipgnosis partner Storm Thorgerson has said was his least favourite Pink Floyd sleeve: “I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover,” he said. Meddle was released in October 1971 in the US and November in the UK. But Air was state-of-the-art.” They also recorded at a third studio, Morgan in Willesden. there was already a lot of change, though. EMI was very established, had the big canteen. So we went to Air studios, which was great. Nick Mason remembers: “Abbey Road had just invested in an eight-track, but were ready to go 16-track. They continued to gig, setting up the gear in the studio then going off at night to play headline shows, albeit at colleges and polytechnics. Starting in early 1971, the band recorded at Abbey Road, sometimes bringing in ideas that they had worked on at home. Meddle, although it was an album that revelled in its use of the recording studio, was the first album to capture some of the potency and excitement of the Floyd live experience. By the end of the 60s they had developed into a formidable live touring band.
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