"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album Atom Heart Mother
Released	October 10, 1970
Recorded	August 1970 Abbey Road, London
Genre	Progressive rock Musique concrète
Length	13:00 (or, infinite)
Writer(s)	Roger Waters Nick Mason David Gilmour Richard Wright
Atom Heart Mother track listing
Fat Old Sun (4)	"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" (5)

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is a three-part instrumental track from the 1970 Pink Floyd album Atom Heart Mother. It features Pink Floyd playing in the background as Alan Stiles (a Pink Floyd roadie, who appeared on the "live album cover" of Ummagumma; often mistaken to be Alan Parsons, who engineered The Dark Side of the Moon) speaks about the breakfast he is preparing and eating, as well as breakfasts he has had in the past ("Breakfast in Los Angeles. Microbiotic (not 'macrobiotic' as is often supposed) stuff..."). There are significant breaks before the first, and in between all three, instrumental parts where only Alan's muttering and movements, with occasional exterior background noise, are heard. Much of Alan's speech is overdubbed throughout the piece in gradually fading echoes e.g. "Microbiotic stuff" is repeated every couple of seconds, more quietly each time. Image File history File links AtomHeartMotherCover. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band noted for philosophical lyrics, classical rock compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. ... Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 progressive rock album by Pink Floyd. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The legendary recording studio Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock artists: The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Pink Floyd and The Shadows. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Progressive rock (sometimes shortened to prog, prog rock, or progrock) is a subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, but continues as a musical form long afterward. ... Musique concrète (French; literally, concrete music), is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ... Infinity is a word carrying a number of different meanings in mathematics, philosophy, theology and everyday life. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... Nicholas Berkeley (Nick) Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is a musician and the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946) is a guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End Pinner, London, England) is a self-taught pianist and keyboard player best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 progressive rock album by Pink Floyd. ... Fat Old Sun is a Pink Floyd song written by David Gilmour. ... See also: 1969 in music, other events of 1970, 1971 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Charles Wuorinen, aged 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band noted for philosophical lyrics, classical rock compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. ... Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 progressive rock album by Pink Floyd. ... Ummagumma is a progressive and psychedelic double album by Pink Floyd released in 1969. ... Alan Parsons (born December 20, 1949) is a British musician. ... The Dark Side of the Moon (titled in the 1993 CD release as Dark Side of the Moon) is a 1973 concept album by Pink Floyd. ...

In addition to the talking, the sounds of Alan making breakfast — such as lighting the stove, cooking bacon, pouring cereal (most likely Kellogg's Rice Krispies, from the sound of the cereal popping), loudly gulping and drinking milk or juice, and loudly and vigorously eating cereal — are clearly audible in the background, which adds a conceptual feel to the track. Alan can be heard entering the kitchen and gathering supplies at the start of the track, and washing up and exiting the kitchen at the end; a dripping faucet can be heard during both of these instances. On some copies of the vinyl version, the faucet drip at the end of the song is cut into the run-off groove, so it plays on infinitely until the listener removes the stylus from the album. A Rice Krispies box from the 1990s Rice Krispies (called Rice Bubbles in Australia) is a brand of breakfast cereal that has been produced by Kelloggs since 1928. ...

Sections

Rise and Shine

This piece consists of piano, organ, steel guitar and electric guitar fed through a Leslie speaker. The Leslie speaker is a specially constructed amplifier/loudspeaker used to create special audio effects. ...

Sunny Side Up

This piece was written and performed entirely by David Gilmour on two acoustic guitars and a steel guitar.

Morning Glory

This piece was performed by the entire band (with the exception of Roger Waters). The center instrument is Rick Wright's piano, which was overdubbed three different times (one in the left channel, one in the center, and one in the right channel). It also features very prominent bass, electric guitar, drums (overdubbed twice by Nick Mason), and hammond organ. The song is most popular to listen to while on controled substances, specifically marijuana. George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Personnel

• David Gilmour - steel guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, bass on "Morning Glory"
• Roger Waters - tape effects, tape collage
• Richard Wright - keyboards
• Nick Mason - drums, percussion, tape edits, tape collage, additional engineering

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• Alan Stiles - voice, sound effects