…8-Tracks is, as one might guess, an eight-track condensed overview of Pink Floyd’s ’70s material (save for 1970’s Atom Heart Mother). It includes singles “One of These Days” (from 1971’s Meddle), “Money” (from The Dark Side of the Moon) and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” and “Comfortably Numb” (from 1979’s double album The Wall), as well as Dark Side album cut “Time” and Wish You Were Here‘s title track. Honoring the format this collection is named after, 8-Tracks will be sequenced in two continuous programs edited by Steven Wilson, with sections from the original multitrack tapes utilized to foster the transitions between songs. Additionally, closing track “Pigs on the Wing” (from 1977’s Animals) will be heard in a rare, longer version that was…
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…features 25 bonus tracks — nine studio rarities and 16 live recordings captured by bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26 1975, now receiving its first official release. The live audio has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson.
…It’s a considerable trove of audiovisual material chronicling the British band’s Herculean task of following up the commercial success of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, which was in the early stages of a staggering multi-year run on the Billboard charts. After mooting a conceptual piece involving “household objects” (heard on the bonus track “Wine Glasses”), Wish You Were Here largely deals with the numbness of absence. “Welcome to the Machine” and “Have a Cigar”…
Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii, the legendary 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben, has been visually restored, with audio newly remixed, and will reissued on audio and video formats, in May, as Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII.
Pink Floyd at Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon and is set in the ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. Filmed in October 1971 – without an audience – the performance was the first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features ‘Echoes,’ ‘A Saucerful of Secrets,’ and ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’, amongst others. Additionally, the film includes rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.