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Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English  band . It was released by  on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by  on 10 October 1970 in the US. It was recorded at  in London, England, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going  there. A remastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and the United States, and again in 2011. , who had already influenced and collaborated with , contributed to the title track and received a then-rare outside songwriting credit.

The cover was designed by , and was the first one not to feature the band's name on the cover, or contain any photographs of the band anywhere. This was a trend that would continue on subsequent covers throughout the 1970s and beyond.

Although it was commercially successful on release, the band, particularly Waters and , have expressed several negative opinions of the album in more recent years. Nevertheless, it remained popular enough for Gilmour to perform the title track with Geesin in 2008.

Pink Floyd started work on the album after completing their contributions to the soundtrack for the film  in Rome, which had ended somewhat . They headed back to London in early 1970 for rehearsals. A number of out-takes from the Rome sessions were used to assemble new material during these rehearsals, though some of it, such as "The Violent Sequence", later to become "", would not be used for some time. - Wikipedia.

Harvest Records 1970 1C062-04 550. This copy was released in Germany.