Chart Info:

Debuted on USA charts on 6/11.1971 at #154! Highest LP position in USA was #70. Stays 15 weeks on the charts. The highest chart position reached in the UK was #3.

Album Info:

The band's working title during the recording of the album was "Nothing- Parts One to Twentyfour". Recorded at: Air, EMI-Abbey Road, and Morgan Studios, London, UK
Engineered by: Peter Bown & Lohn Leckie at Air & EMI
Rob Black and Roger Quested at Morgan
Album cover designed by Pink Floyd
Outer Sleeve photos by Bob Dowling
Inner Sleeve Photo by Hipgnosis

This was the album which streamlined and established the hallmark of the Floyd's mature style: a dense and colourful weave of actuality sounds (notably the football chant on Fearless) original electronic textures, and more conventional rock instrumentation. "Meddle" contains two extremely
important songs in the Pink Floyd story. One, the powerful, spacey "One Of These Days", marked a welcome return to simplicity; while the other, the side-long "Echoes", is a progressive rock classic.

On this track they managed to dispense with additional musicians and became, in effect a four-piece orchestra. The song marked the first real appearance of the lush, symphonic sound that was such an obvious feature of their music from then on. "Echoes" featured Dave Gilmour's first
significant contributions to the group's sound.

David Gilmour: "We did loads of bits of demos which we then pieced together, and for the first time, it worked. This album was a clear forerunner for Dark Side Of The Moon, the point when we first got our focus."

Nick Mason: "We spent a long time starting the record. We'd worked through the Sounds Of Household Objects project, which we never finished. The idea was always to create a continuous piece of music that went through various moods and this was the album that established that. Rick was the guy who got it off the ground with that one note at the beginning."

Rick Wright: "I was playing around on the piano in the studio but it was actually Roger who said, Would it be possible to put that note through a microphone and then through the Leslie? That's what started it. That's how all the best Floyd tracks start, I believe."

The title "Meddle" was meant to be a pun - "a play between 'medal' and
'interfere'".

Musicians Featured:

David Gilmour: Guitars, Vocals
Nick Mason: Drums
Roger Waters: Bass Guitar, Vocals
Rick Wright: Keyboard, Vocals