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So we know a couple of digits and the splice points. We also know the date. Phone numbers used to be public back then.

It would be fun to grep for the pattern in the matching phone book to see if someone in Pink Floyd's circles comes up.

Only problem is to get hold of a digital version of the phone book. It strikes me as odd how hard it is to retrieve information that used to be so ubiquitous.

Not too long ago police in Germany asked publicly for information about certain phone numbers related to the Madeleine McCann case. Apparently not even the police has an archive of old phone books.




Cassiepaper posted an interview[0] elsewhere in this discussion that says it was James Guthrie's flat in London (James Guthrie being their producer and engineer).

[0] https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/jame...




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