Its name was changed after Ron Geesin, who co-wrote the piece and arranged the orchestration on the recording, pointed to a copy of The Evening Standard (dated Thursday 16 July 1970), and suggested to Roger Waters that he would find a title in there. The title track was to have been called "The Amazing Pudding", though Ron Geesin's original score referred to it as "Epic". More cows appear on the back cover (again, with no text or titles), and on the inside gatefold The cow's owner identified her name as "Lulubelle III". Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow-wallpaper", has said that he simply drove out into a rural area near Potters Bar and photographed the first cow he saw. They thus requested that their new album have "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. (Some later editions have the title and artist name added to the cover.) This concept was the group's reaction to the psychedelic "space rock" imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance.
The original album cover shows a very ordinary cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN A MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd." WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGEĬOMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED HARVEST COMPANY ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (141g) WITH THE FIRST ISSUE HARVEST LABELS WHICH CARRY "THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD" TOP RIM TEXT BUT NO EMI BOXED LOGO LOVELY ORIGINAL COPY WITH BEAUTIFULLY CLEAN SOUND UK HARVEST (SHVL 781) FIRST PRESSING (October 1970) OF PINK FLOYD'S "Atom Heart Mother" PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother 1970 UK 1st PRESS, CLEAN GF, SUPERB SOUND Nr MINT THE PINK FLOYD
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