Pink Floyd Ring Out Yule Bells
Pink Floyd are the Artist Of The Day today on EMI Music's Advent Calendar, which features a differen...

Pink Floyd Ring Out Yule Bells
Pink Floyd are the Artist Of The Day today on EMI Music's Advent Calendar, which features a different mystery artist each day. Go to www.thankemiitschristmas.com to enter the prize giveaway draw. Try the ‘instant win' competition and be entered into the Grand Prize Draw on Christmas Day, when one winner will win a bumper bag of prizes. There are also social network sharing tools to allow fans to select the featured album and select it as a present they might like to receive.

Pink Floyd Royal Mail Stamps
Meanwhile on 7th January ‘The Division Bell' will be available as a Royal Mail stamp, as part of the ‘Classic Album Covers' stamp issue. Go to http://www.royalmail.com/albumcovers to be able to pre-order a range of the stamp issue (there are 10 separate sleeves in all) in a large number of formats. Please be aware that these stamp releases tend to sell very quickly, so if you are very keen on any particular format, please order before 7th January to be sure of getting it.

There is a bewildering array of choice in the series, but you might want to consider the ‘Classic Album Covers Presentation Pack' which includes all 10 stamps and a printed card including comments on the sleeves by the designers and an interview with Storm Thorgerson. Price is £4.40 UK.

You can also buy just the ‘Division Bell' stamp in a strip of 5 (priced £1.95 UK), or there is a ‘Classic Album Covers Souvenir Sheet Cover' (£5.50 UK), which features the 10-stamp set plus a filler card measuring 32.4 cm x 22.9 cm.

Stamp collectors in the UK will be familiar with the ‘First Day Cover', which features all the stamps on one envelope, posted and franked on the day of issue. London-based stamp dealer The Stamp Centre have gone one further and plans to produce a Limited Edition First Day Cover using ONLY the ‘Division Bell' stamp.

It will also sport a Custom frank mark from Ely, Cambridgeshire, since that is the place where the cover photograph for ‘The Division Bell' was taken.

It should be available to order from Monday 21st December from http://www.stamp-centre.co.uk