Music in real places

Arecibo Observatory telescope site

Historical Arecibo Radio Observatory telescope site, Puerto Rico; data provenance for the sleeve graphic, no performance or exact instrument-position pin

Explore the places

These historical places remain in the list while their map positions are researched.

Arecibo Observatory telescope site — Position not yet established

Music happened here

Unknown Pleasures: studio sound and a pulsar image

Arecibo observations supply the later sleeve graphic’s data

Observations preceding Craft’s September 1970 thesis

Harold Craft’s plot, later adapted for the Unknown Pleasures sleeve, used data collected at Arecibo Radio Observatory.

Harold Craft: original interview tracing Unknown Pleasures’ pulsar graphic

Reading the place today

This place remains listed without a map pin.