To be found... 6

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If you have read all the information above, of course you will prefer the information pack in the next chapter to the information on the internet. After all, if you are "here", Wikipedia shouldn't be enough for you: "there" you find only a previously unreleased track produced by Malcolm Jones on an album that despite positive reviews failed to chart. Before that, let's see how Opel "found us".

   The corpus of unreleased Syd songs in EMI’s vaults caused a steady stream of petitions demanding they be issued … Diagnosed with liver cancer, Jones kept up the pressure … Jones died before he could see an album’s worth of out-takes and unreleased tracks issued as Opel in 1988. ‘I’ve listened to Opel and there’s nothing on there that illuminates much or gives much to anyone,’ insisted Dave Gilmour. ‘I didn’t approve of it, personally, but it’s not my choice.’

— Julian Palacios, Dark Globe

Dave Gilmour is not the only one to think so. Maybe there's something special to be found in Opel, but from non-specialized reviewers to specialized biographers there are also negative judgements: probably anyone who hasn't got that special something, hasn't got anything from Opel...




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Palacios, Julian. Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. London: Plexus Publishing Limited, 2010. 419. Print. http://books.google.com/books?id=DvgH58uEPFAC&pg=PA419