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GLENN POVEY

remember when you were streaming through the set the controls for the heart the sound of in my ears playing different tunes running over the same old young 1962– starlit skies 1966–1967 of the sun 1968–1969 1970–1971 1972–1973 ground 1974–1975 10 30 76 116 152 180

a certain unease in the air the show must go on 1986–1993 the nights of wonder 1994–2006 solo careers 288 290 1976–1977 1978–1985 238 258 296 316 198 218 320 richard wright 340 pink floyd discography 342 Meanwhile the continued to perform in the locality, Bo Diddley numbers on his white Fender . He’d do put it, if they had opted for the other combination – bootleg market – a studio acetate having been unearthed

notably The Woodman and The Winchester pubs on “No Money Down” and I would sing Jimmy Witherspoon, Anderson Council – it would have sounded like a local in the late Eighties - albeit of poor quality, and whilst it is REMEMBER WHEN Y

65 Archway Road, Highgate. Mason remembers at that time and stuff along with Lazy authority. clearly Barrett on lead vocals, the R&B style 9 they learned their repertoire from a clutch of , Lester’s “I’m A Lover Not A Fighter” and “I Got Love If By the end of January 1965, Dennis had received a performances are distinctly average. As Klose later

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9 ‘Authentic R&B Volumes 1-3 and Syd’s collection of Bo You Want It” by .’ posting to the Persian Gulf, leaving Barrett, as the most recalled, ‘We recorded a few numbers... I can’t remember Diddley.’(10) (Note: There was only ever one Authentic R&B It is also during this period that started to charismatic member, to take on what was for him the exactly where we did them… it was some place where a – an LP in 1964 on Stateside. Mason is probably use the name The Tea Set - a pun on the technical unnatural role of lead singer. Something of an introvert, friend of Rick Wright’s worked as an engineer. I think OUNG 1 thinking of the Pye International R&B LP series.) drawing instrument. The name wasn’t in constant use but he may have been a far

The band then apparently adopted the name was certainly adopted for many bookings in the coming disciplined musician OU WERE Y Five, although this appears to have been a very months and indeed right through to early 1966 - even and indeed of greater DAVID GILMOUR << The thing with Syd was that his brief flirtation – and then maybe only for a single gig at after they had found their new and more permanent ability, but he lacked OU WERE Y School of Art. Significantly, it soon became name of “Pink Floyd”. Accounts vary considerably but it Barrett’s spontaneity and guitar playing wasn’t his strongest feature. His

apparent that the band lacked a front man of any has been said that the new name was adopted mid-way raw talent. As Gilmour style was very stiff. I always thought I was the OUNG 1 substance. Barrett and Klose fumbled through the vocals through a dance at RAF Uxbridge where, and it does reflected, ‘The thing with better guitar player. But he was very clever, very as best they could, but neither had the confidence or seem highly unlikely that two bands would be booked, Syd was that his guitar 9

vocal range to carry it off effectively in the style that the another band was also performing under the name The playing wasn’t his strongest intelligent, an artist in every way. >> 62-1 band was aiming for. Therefore, during the autumn break Tea Set. As improbable as this story may seem, there was feature. His style was very 9 of 1964, Barrett was dispatched to to try to indeed another north based band with that name, stiff. I always thought I 65 REMEMBER WHEN Y convince his former band mate Geoff Mott to join them in and they went on to perform across the city throughout was the better guitar player. But he was very clever, very they were recorded on two-track. It was definitely a London. But there was hardly any incentive for Mott to the coming year. intelligent, an artist in every way. And he was a professional set-up. The themselves were mainly join a group that had very few gigs, no agency, no The name-change was all very spur-of-the-moment frightening talent when it came to words, and lyrics. They group compositions, although I think Syd wrote “Lucy manager and, on the face of it, no prospects. stuff and in the absence of any better ideas this just used to pour out.’(12) These changes also gave the Leave”. “Double-O-Bo” was a Bo Diddley tribute of sorts - Although he couldn’t persuade Mott to join, by suggestion was immediately adopted, although initially band their opportunity to finally nudge Leonard out in a pun on the James Bond 007 thing. The title was the extreme good fortune, Waters and Klose bumped into a and according to Keith Noble, they called themselves “The favour of Wright, who was invited back on board. main lyric! I think we had one verse written out, and then 18 face they vaguely knew from Cambridge in a West End Pink Floyd Band”. Far from coming to him in a Confident that they now had a stable line-up the dreamt up a second whilst we were in the studio. I can’t 19 music store: Chris Dennis. At that time he was serving blinding flash while in an LSD induced trance or being band attempted to record some of their repertoire remember the title of the last number… it was a shuffle with the at its Uxbridge base in west beamed to him by passing aliens from space, as some including the tracks ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Lucy Leave’, both type thing in E as far as I can recall. Nick Mason played London and had, until recently, been the lead vocalist in a might have it, the name’s true origins lay in Barrett’s Barrett originals; ‘I’m A King Bee’, the Slim Harpo blues them to me during a visit a couple of years after they not long disbanded but quite successful Cambridge group record collection. It is the amalgamation of the first standard, and ‘Double-O-Bo’, a group composition. ‘Lucy were recorded. Very embarrassing!’(13) called The Redcaps. He was looking for another band and names of two old Carolina bluesmen whose work was Leave’ and ‘I’m A King Bee’ was then pressed as an Although the band had picked up a short-lived accepted the offer immediately. ‘At this stage we were very familiar to him: (1900-1974) and acetate single to send out to clubs in order to obtain live residency at The Countdown Club in Kensington, in reality like a lot of other bands, doing R&B stuff. Syd did a lot of Floyd ‘Dipper Boy’ Council (1911-1976). As Waters once bookings. Copies have since found their way onto the a private members club, where at least one show was

BELOW: PINK FLOYD PHOTOGRAPHED IN HIGHGATE, LONDON IN EARLY 1965. PICTURED WITH ROGER ‘SYD’ BARRETT, NICK MASON, ROGER WATERS AND RICHARD WRIGHT IS RADO ‘BOB’ CLOSE SHORTLY BEFORE HE LEFT THE BAND.

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6 Tuesday 28 March Monday 3 April

9 RADIO SHOW AMING THR -1 Chinese R&B Club, Corn Exchange, , BBC , Charing Cross, London, 66

9 England Pink Floyd performed ‘’ and ‘Candy And Wednesday 29 March A Currant Bun’ live for the BBC Radio Light

RECORDING SESSION Programme’s Monday, Monday! broadcast at 1.00pm. OUGH THE S EMI Studios, , St. John’s Wood, London, Curiously at this time the BBC had a policy of England auditioning all bands for live appearance by playing

ARLIT SKIES 1 Mixing for the The Piper At The Gates Of the recordings to a committee for approval for T Dawn. transmission. However, in Pink Floyd’s case the BBC

archives indicate that their tracks were transmitted T Wednesday 29 March and considered a ‘live audition’ in view of the fact the ARLIT SKIES 1 CONCERT single was already charting. The Dance Hall, Hotel, Twickenham, OUGH THE S England Thursday 6 April CONCERT Thursday 30 March City Hall, Salisbury, England 9

CANCELLED TV SHOW Supported by The Nite Shift. 66 -1

AMING THR BBC Lime Grove Studios, Shepherd’s Bush, London, The set list included: Untitled Instrumental / ‘Arnold

England Layne’ / ‘’ / ‘Matilda Mother’. 9 6 TRE Pink Floyd were filmed for the UK’s most watched 7 S pop music show, BBC TV’s , Friday 7 April performing ‘Arnold Layne’ on this date, but its CONCERT intended broadcast the following week (Thursday 6 Floral Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland April) was cancelled. A statement was issued by the Supported by The Jimmy Johnston Showband. show’s producer, Stanley Dorfman, to , Rick Wright commented in Melody Maker that, ‘The (published week ending Saturday 8 April), explaining best reaction so far to the Floyd’s lights and sounds Saturday 8 April “psychedelic” tag it has been branded with. “If ABOVE: PRIOR TO FILMING ‘ARNOLD LAYNE’ FOR THE FAN the omission: ‘We filmed the Floyd and was in Belfast. The kind of place where if they don’t CONCERT psychedelic is producing LSD feelings then we are CLUB TV SHOW IN AMSTERDAM ON 29 APRIL 1967. 56 before last week’s show because they were both like you they let you know in no uncertain manner. We The , Chalk Farm, London, England not,” said Nick Mason. “But if psychedelic is light and 57 playing out of town on Thursday night [6 April]. were worried about Belfast, but they really rave over Late show. With The Flies, Earl Fuggle, The Electric sound, then we are.”’ Monday 17 & Tuesday 18 April Naturally we wanted the film in the can in case the there. We were completely knocked out and stunned Poets [], The Block, Sandy & Narda RECORDING SESSIONS record entered the chart. In fact, on our combined at the reaction.’ The show featured an unusual dancers and . Tuesday 11 - Thursday 13 April Studio 3, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, St. John’s chart the Floyd dropped three places so it ruled them lightshow with 35mm slides of the abstract paintings RECORDING SESSIONS Wood, London, England out of the show.’ of local artist Cecil McCartney projected over the Sunday 9 April Studio 3, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, St. John’s Recording for the album The Piper At The Gates Of band as they performed. CONCERT Wood, London, England Dawn. Pink Floyd began recording a new Barrett Friday 31 March Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham, England Recording for the album The Piper At The Gates Of composition on 18 April entitled ‘She Was A CONCERT Saturday 8 April Dawn. Pink Floyd began recording a entitled Millionaire’, which remains unreleased. Top Spot Ballroom, Ross-on-Wye, England CONCERT Monday 10 April ‘Percy The Ratcatcher’ which eventually became Supported by Group 66. Rhodes Centre, Bishops Stortford, England CONCERT known as ‘’. Wednesday 19 April Early show. Supported by The New Generation. The Pavilion, Bath, England CONCERT Saturday 1 April The Bath & Wilts Evening Chronicle reported that: Thursday 13 April Bromel Club, Court Hotel, Downham, Bromley, PRESS RECEPTION ‘Three electricians should have taken a bow at the CONCERT England EMI Records, Pavilion last night. Instead four people took the Tilbury Railway Club, Tilbury, England Manchester applause - four people who had, apparently Thursday 20 April Square, London, haphazardly, thumped out music. The four were the Saturday 15 April CONCERT England Pink Floyd, one of the most intriguing groups to visit CONCERT Queen’s Hall, Barnstaple, England Pink Floyd were the city. The overall effect created by the noise of Kinetic Arena - K4 Discoteque, Main Ballroom, Supported by The Gordon Riots. wheeled out for the those onstage and the lighting from those off-stage West Pier, Brighton, England press at EMI’s was interesting to say the least. Jaundiced blotches Set list included: ‘Candy And A Currant Bun’ / Friday 21 April headquarters. ran down mottled multi-coloured backgrounds. ‘Astronomy Dominé’ / ‘Matilda Mother’ / ‘Pow R Toc CONCERT Flashing lights transformed the group into ghouls, H’ / ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ / ‘Lucifer Sam’. Starlite Ballroom, Greenford, England Saturday 1 April with giant prancing shadows of distorted beings Pink Floyd were invited by Hornsey College of Art’s Early show. CONCERT dwarfing the performers as the lighting changed with Advanced Studies Group to perform in their ‘kinetic The Birdcage Club, the pounding rhythm. The group admits its lighting audio-visual environments’ - collectively entitled ‘K4’. Friday 21 April Eastney, Portsmouth, techniques - which are strictly secret - and sound will They played in front of a sixty-foot-wide white CONCERT England and must improve. Roger Waters said, “We are projection screen with a PA system suspended from UFO, The Blarney Club, , getting better all the time and our techniques are the ceiling. London, England doing the same.” But the group denies the Late show. With The Gas Company. 1968 – 1969 f the sun or the heart o ols f t the contr se > > july 1968 SET THE CONTR 9 6 9 -1

68 them other than say that in every other performance number, Waters assisted Mason by playing one 9 in this country and in England they ably demonstrated cymbal, then two. He even shattered a glass by that they are the best psychedelic group in the world. flinging it at the gong. But even this number has quiet

They have never claimed to be the world’s best moments as Mason varied the intensity of his playing OL

musicians, and they are really at best with their own and Wright turned to church-like sounds. Gilmer’s use S F

light show, so unless you have a light show of your of feedback had its greatest use in this number. The OR THE HE own - just close your eyes and turn your amplifier selection that made greatest use of church organ T OF THE SUN 1 fully on, and your parents fully off by putting A effect, however, was “Astronomy Dominé”. Gilmer’s

AR Saucerful Of Secrets on. Although the album is by no best vocal was “Flaming”. But, it was their means indicative of what the group is really - oh well, inventiveness, musicianship and ability to say AR there is absolutely no point in saying this. Either you something musically, whether playing and vocalising dig the Floyd or you don’t. I do.’ softly or overwhelming with cascades of sound.’ T OF THE SUN 1 OR THE HE Saturday 13 July Friday 19 July S F CONCERT RECORD RELEASE OL Fifth Dimension, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London Supported by The Rationals. UK album release. The original film soundtrack album,

featuring ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ was recorded on 11 9 68 Monday 15, Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 July and 12 January 1967. The release date given here is -1

CONCERTS that of the New York cinema opening of the film, as 9

Steve Paul’s The Scene, New York City, New York, no exact date for a UK record release can be found. It 6 9

SET THE CONTR USA is generally accepted this opening occurred shortly Supported by on 15 July and The after the release of although John Hammond Trio on 16 & 17 July. the film had been previewed at the New York Film Set list on 15 July: ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ / ‘Let There Festival on 26 September 1967. Pink Floyd also lent a Be More Light’ / ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of completely different take of the track ‘Interstellar The Sun’ / ‘Astronomy Dominé’ / ‘Flaming’ / ‘A Overdrive’ to last the full-length of Anthony Stern’s Saucerful Of Secrets’. 15-minute rapid-fire day-in-the-life-of documentary ABOVE: ROY HARPER JOINS PINK FLOYD ON STAGE FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA but Billboard reported that: ‘Pink Floyd overpowered a entitled San Francisco. Funded by the British Film SOME CYMBAL BASHING DURING ‘A SAUCERFUL OF 911 98 Pink Floyd’s second US tour was also beset by venue advertisements in the local press throughout packed house at the Scene on Monday in a varied Institute, it was occasionally shown at special SECRETS’ AT THE FIRST HYDE PARK FREE FESTIVAL, 29 problems concerning their work permits, which again this period do not include Pink Floyd, so this is highly programme with a strong emphasis on space and screenings at the BFI and also the ICA over the JUNE 1968. had not been issued in time. This meant a delayed unlikely. oriental sounds. In the first night of a three-day following two years. Friday 28 June start to the tour and their entry to the US in New Due to the extension of the existing tour an engagement the quartet was joined by Fleetwood CONCERT York on 4 July was on a tourist visa, therefore advertised show in the UK was cancelled at The Royal Mac, which made an excellent impression in its initial Thursday 18, Friday 19 & Saturday 20 July Students Celebration Dance - The End Of It All Ball, performing shows through to 17 July illegally. They Lido, Central Beach, Prestatyn, Wales on 24 August. set. While both British acts were well received, the Music Hall, Shrewsbury, England decamped to Canada to square the paperwork inventiveness of Tower Records’ Pink Floyd was Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Plus the Miss Shropshire Student Contest and immediately after the shows in New York, returning in Monday 8 July most remarkable. From opening “Interstellar supporting groups. time to perform in Boston. CONCERT Overdrive” to closing “A Saucerful Of Secrets”, the Monday 22 July Despite some glowing reviews it was a patchy tour at , Chicago, Illinois, USA group displayed top-flight musicianship and RECORD RELEASE Saturday 29 June best and since the band were spending far too much It was reported that one of Gilmour’s was consistent interest. An act that requires top effort ‘’ / ‘Scarecrow’ CONCERT time holed up in hotels between shows it was decided stolen en route to the show. from each member, Pink Floyd drew just that. Roger US 7-inch single re-release. Midsummer High Weekend, The Cockpit, Hyde Park, towards the end of August they would cut their Waters played a mean guitar, but that was only the London, England losses and return to the UK. This resulted in the Tuesday 9 July beginning as he also played gong and cymbals and Wednesday 24 July Afternoon show, with Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper cancellation of their appearance at two festival shows PRESS RECEPTION sang. Drummer Nicky Mason was strong throughout CONCERT and Jethro Tull. Pink Floyd headlined the first ever (both of which went ahead without Pink Floyd): Sky Michael Mann’s, Manhattan, New York City, New on both sticks and mallets. David Gilmer, the newest Philadelphia Music Festival, John F. Kennedy Hyde Park free concert, organised by Blackhill River and Lighter Than Air Fair, Betty York, USA member of the unit, not only played guitar and sang Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Enterprises. Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, Washington, Tower Records held a press reception for the band at well, but showed he knew how to use feedback to With (headline), The Troggs, Pink Floyd Set list: ‘Let There Be More Light’ / ‘Set The Controls USA with Kaleidoscope, Muddy Waters, Peanut this popular New York restaurant . advantage, an important part of the Floyd’s electronic (billed as special guests replacing the advertised For The Heart Of The Sun’ / ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ Butter Conspiracy, Santana, Country Joe & The Fish, sound. And Rick Wright clearly is one of the finest who cancelled), The Mandala, Friends (with Roy Harper on cymbals) / ‘Interstellar John Fahey, HP Lovecraft, Steppenwolf, The Friday 12 July organists around. Whether producing high pitch Of The Family and The Joshua Light Show. Overdrive’. Youngbloods and many others (31 August) and the CONCERT sounds or conventional Bach-like music, Wright’s Set list included: ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of Oakland Pop Festival, Baldwin Pavilion, Oakland , Detroit, Michigan, USA performance was masterful. He also aided in vocals. The Sun’ / ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’. Saturday 29 June University, Rochester Hills, Detroit, Michigan, USA Supported by The Thyme and The Jagged Edge. But, little of what Pink Floyd did was conventional. In Friends Of The Family and Pink Floyd were the only CONCERT with Procol Harum, Howlin’ Wolf, Chris Chrysalis, The Set list: ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ / ‘A Saucerful Of “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun”, Waters two bands to appear at this show. When the third Town Hall, Torquay, England Rationals, SRC Thyme, MC5, Jagged Edge, Secrets’ / ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’ produced vocal sounds from whisper to high-pitched band on the bill, The Mandala, began their set a Evening show. With Phydeaux Lime and The Phaze. Psychedelic Stooges and The Frost Children (1 / ‘Astronomy Dominé’ / ‘Flaming’. screech after returning to guitar. The number is on lightning strike hit the stage and forced the closure of September). Detroit City Estate reported that: ‘Pink Floyd is a very the group’s latest Tower album A Saucerful Of the event. Additionally, Nick Mason has stated in his book Inside weird group. I know that they were unbelievably Secrets, whose title song produced the wild ending to Out that the band performed at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, at the Grande and I’m not about to try and excuse the set, which ran for more than an hour. In this sounds good.”’(9) The headline appears on page just doing something on the rhythm of a dripping tap, 9 of the 16 July edition and reads, ‘The Atom Heart then it turned into this whole kitchen thing. On the record

Mother Is Named’ and refers to 56 year-old Mrs. it’s a carefully set up stereo picture of a kitchen with THE SOUND OF MUS 71

9 Constance Ladell who received Britain’s first plutonium somebody coming in, opening a window, filling a kettle -1

0 based pacemaker. and putting it on the stove. But instead of the gas 7

9 Gilmour spoke at the time of the problems in lighting, there’s a chord, so he strikes a match and there’s

S 1 taking the new work on the road: ‘Something on the another chord, and so on until it finally goes into a piece

AR scale of ‘’ really takes a lot of getting of music.’(11) together. The problem is that we’ve never done it more The kitchen sounds, along with an amusing I

than twice with the same people. The choir is usually all conversation with Alan Stiles, one of the band’s roadies, C IN MY E right because they’re used to working together, but some were recorded for the most part in Mason’s kitchen. The C IN MY E I of the brass people have been really hopeless. We had music was added at Abbey Road. Because of its novelty, problems with the sound equipment, getting it miked up the track was rarely performed live – only a handful of and balanced and stuff. The trouble was also not having UK shows in the run-up to Christmas featured it. Waters AR S 1 enough rehearsal time everywhere we did it, because we was anticipating the problems it would cause when he 9

used a different brass and choir group in than the spoke to Sounds about it shortly before the tour: ‘The 7 0

one we used on the East Coast, and another one on the logistics of doing it live are quite difficult – we can’t -1 9

West Coast. So we used three completely different sets obviously take a set of a kitchen round with us and do it 71 THE SOUND OF MUS of people performing it. We tried to hire musicians from all, but we’ll have to have some table to fry eggs on and boil kettles and everything.’ This was a task eventually left to the roadies, who, to the accompaniment ROGER WATERS << We were all of BBC broadcaster and DJ Jimmy Young’s trademark frantically trying to write songs, ‘Oft we jolly well go’, fried eggs and bacon and made tea and initially I thought of just doing on stage. To round off the festive spirit, Mason often 122 dressed up as Father Christmas. 123 something on the rhythm of a The album’s title track also caught the attention dripping tap, then it turned into of Stanley Kubrick, who wanted to use the music in his adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork this whole kitchen thing. >> Orange. ‘He wanted to use ‘Atom Heart Mother’, said Waters, ‘and chop and change it about. He just phoned local symphonies, so we’d just get the session musicians. up and said that he wanted it and we said, “Well, what We found our conductor, Peter Philips, by coming over do you want to do?” and he didn’t know, he just said he and looking for someone a couple of months before the wanted to use it, “How I want – when I want”. And we tour…’(10) said right away, “Right, you can’t use it.”’(12) It is difficult The album Atom Heart Mother has to imagine the film carrying this music – maybe it is just contributions from each member of the band except as well it wasn’t used after all. Mason, who is only part- of the title track. Atom Heart Mother, with its striking sleeve There are only four other numbers on the album, three of picture of a cow, was in keeping with Pink Floyd’s already which have a very summery, bluesy feel to them: Waters’ established sense of the absurd. Posters for the album ‘If’ (performed rarely at this time, but more frequently on depicted herds of cattle on The Mall in London (which his later solo tours); Wright’s ‘Summer ‘68’; and Gilmour’s was supposedly closed at dawn to create the image). The ‘’, which was performed live throughout the success of the promotion played a part in gaining the year, and had been written at the time as Waters’ band their very first number one in the UK album chart. ‘ Meadows’. With 1971 barely started there was already RIGHT: PINK FLOYD ON STAGE AT The closing track, ‘Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast’, mounting pressure on Pink Floyd to release new product BILL GRAHAM’S FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK ON 27 SEPTEMBER is a typical but flawed Floyd experimentation. As Waters hot on the heels of the success of Atom Heart Mother. 1970. EARLIER IN THE YEAR explained: ‘It was the usual thing of an idea coming out Losing little time, they entered the studio in early GRAHAM’S LACK OF of the fact that we’d almost finished an LP but not quite January for their usual round of brainstorming sessions. CONFIDENCE IN THEIR DRAW RESULTED IN THE BAND HAVING and we needed another so many minutes. We were all It was the first time they were not contractually obliged TO HIRE THE VENUE FROM HIM. frantically trying to write songs, and initially I thought of to use EMI’s facilities at Abbey Road and much of the > july 1970

‘Careful With That Axe, Eugene’ / ‘Atom Heart Golden Earring, Amon Düül II, And The they went gently into “” and Mother’ / ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’ Whole World, Traffic, , “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”. Even in the latter / ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ / encore: ‘Interstellar Tyrannosaurus Rex and Deep Purple. the volume was down, and the mood reflective. “Set Overdrive’. Set list: ‘Astronomy Dominé’ / ‘Green Is The Colour’ / The Controls For The Heart Of the Sun” was at its THE SOUND OF MUS 71

9 Sponsored by Coca-Cola, the Holland Pop Festival ‘Careful With That Axe, Eugene’ / ‘Atom Heart most ethereal, the smooth crescendos flying away

-1 remains the largest event of its kind in Mother’ / ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’ over the heads of the captivated audience. To end, a 0

7 with an estimated attendance exceeding 350,000. It / ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ / encore: ‘Interstellar brass section and choir were brought on for the 25- 9 ran from the 26 to the 28 June and had a reciprocal Overdrive’. minute finale. The piece began with an arrangement S 1 agreement with the organisers of the Bath Festival for the brass, and then switched into a lengthy choir AR that enabled many of the same artists to perform at Thursday 16 July pattern, followed by a dash of marvellous Floyd rock- both. Pink Floyd finally took to the stage at 4.00am RADIO SHOW jazz. In came the brass again, pursued by incantations I

on 29 June but this time minus the special effects, BBC Cinema, Lower , London, from the choir and swirling special effects in twin- C IN MY E lightshow and orchestra. A film was made of the England channel stereo. A reprise took up the original theme - C IN MY E

I event that included Pink Floyd’s performance of ‘Set Pink Floyd recorded a live audience show on this day based on a simple chord progression akin to the finale The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’ and ‘A for BBC Radio One in which the band performed in of “The Man” - and group, choir and orchestra Saucerful Of Secrets’ and was released in cinemas as order, ‘The Embryo’, ‘Fat Old Sun’, ‘Green Is The projected it together in fine combination.’ AR Stamping Ground. It has also been released on video Colour’, ‘Careful With That Axe, Eugene’, ‘If’ and S 1 under this title and Pink Floyd’s performance has also ‘Atom Heart Mother’ (with the Philip Jones Brass FRENCH FESTIVAL TOUR 9

appeared on many Various Artists video compilations Ensemble and the John Aldiss Choir). It was Pink Floyd, members of their family and 7 0

including Psychomania! broadcast on the Peel Sunday Concert on 19 July at rented a villa in St. Tropez to use as a base for a -1

4.00pm and repeated on Sounds of The Seventies on combined holiday and season of French Riviera 9 71 Wednesday 8 – Tuesday 21 July 22 July at 6.00pm. This show also marked the festival appearances. Unfortunately many of the THE SOUND OF MUS RECORDING SESSIONS naming of the track ‘Atom Heart Mother’ for the first festivals, including appearances in Bandol and Le EMI Studios, Abbey Road, St. John’s Wood, London, time. Barcares that never even got beyond the planning England stage, were cancelled or disrupted by violence and in Discontinuous recording for the album Atom Heart Saturday 18 July the end Pink Floyd appeared at only three events. Mother. CONCERT Blackhill’s Garden Party - Hyde Park Free Concert, Sunday 26 July Hyde Park, London, England CONCERT 134 With , Kevin Ayers And The Whole XI Festival International de Jazz, Pinède Gould, 135 World, Edgar Broughton Band and DJ Jeff Dexter. Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Set list: ‘The Embryo’ / ‘Green Is The Colour’ / ‘Careful As part of this month-long series of events French TV With That Axe, Eugene’ / ‘Set The Controls For The reportedly recorded this show but the content and Heart Of The Sun’ / ‘Atom Heart Mother’ (announced broadcast details remain unknown. as ‘The Atomic Heart Mother’ with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the John Aldiss Choir, conducted Saturday 1 August by John Aldiss) / encore: ‘Atom Heart Mother’ CANCELLED CONCERT (reprise). Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Parc de Saint Pons, Aix- Disc & Music Echo reported that: ‘Over five hours of en-Provence, France varied and contrasting music was topped by a With Derek And The Dominos, Soft Machine, Traffic performance from the Pink Floyd, who treated the and Balls. Pink Floyd were due to headline the second gathering to a preview of their forthcoming album. day of this three-day festival (30 July – 2 August), But most of all, the weather was kind. The only organised by local dignitary General Claude Clement unusual incident to be witnessed by everybody came but it was abandoned on the first day because of just after Edgar Broughton finished his set. A middle- rioting and was closed by the city authorities as a fire aged father, who had apparently lost his son in the hazard and threat to public safety. crowd, was handing in a message when he suddenly grabbed the microphone from Jeff Dexter. The Wednesday 5 August bewildered man spluttered into the PA: ‘I just want to CANCELLED CONCERT tell you kids - because that’s all you are - that I think Popanalia Festival, Autoroute De L’Esteral, Biot, this bloody music of yours is a load of rubbish!’ The France remark was met with uproar, and a shower of empty With , Soft Machine, , Traffic, Sunday 12 July coke cans rained down on him from the audience... Balls, Ex Plastic Ono Band, The Moody Blues, King CONCERT The Pink Floyd gave an hour of beautifully mature Crimson, Spencer Davis, Kevin Ayers And The Whole 1st Open Air Pop Festival, Reiterstadion Soers, music, soothing and inspiring to listen to. They kept World, Alan Price, ’s Gong, Alice, Ame Aachen, West the numbers short, apart from the finale, and Son, Alan Jack Civilization, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, ABOVE: PINK FLOYD ON STAGE AT THE HYDE PARK Pink Floyd headlined on the third and final day of this carefully restrained. With the sun glinting on Nick Archie Shepp, Sonny Scharrock and Don Cherry. FREE CONCERT, LONDON, 18 JULY 1970. ALTHOUGH NOT festival which featured many acts including Taste, Mason’s drums and the clouds breaking up overhead, Planned to last 36 hours, with Pink Floyd due to PICTURED IT WAS TIMES THE BAND Hardin and York, Keef Hartley, If, Fat Mattress, it seemed as if the sounds were dropping from the appear on the 6 August, this event was abandoned PERFORMED ‘ATOM HEART MOTHER’ WITH A CHOIR Champion Jack Dupree, Quintessence, Caravan, sky itself. After a quiet and lazy, bluesy, introduction, soon after it started. When Soft Machine were told AND ORCHESTRA IN AN OPEN AIR SETTING.

1974 – 1975 running over the same old ground same the over running

> february 1977

Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24 & Friday Thursday 17 March 25 February CONCERT CONCERTS Empire Pool, Wembley, England , Porte de Pantin, Paris, France Set list: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ /

Set list at all four shows: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs (Three Different A CER 7

7 Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You , Parts 1-5’ / 9

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7 Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 9 ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On 6-9’ / encore: ‘Us And Them’. You Crazy Diamond, Parts 6-9’ / encore: ‘Money’. ORTF TV broadcast a pre-recorded interview with Friday 18 March A

David Gilmour and Roger Waters for the arts CONCERT SE IN THE AIR 1 programme JA2 20H. It was broadcast on ORTF2 on Empire Pool, Wembley, England 21 February at 8.00pm. Set list: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs (Three Different SE IN THE AIR 1

A Sunday 27 & Monday 28 February Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / CONCERTS ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish Olympiahalle, Munich, West Germany You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 9

Set list at both shows: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, 6-9’ / encore: ‘Us And Them’. 7 AIN UNE 6 T

Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs -1

(Three Different Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You Crazy Saturday 19 March 9 7

Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / CONCERT 7 A CER ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On Empire Pool, Wembley, England You Crazy Diamond, Parts 6-9’ / encore: ‘Money’. Set list: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs (Three Different Tuesday 1 March Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / CONCERT ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish Olympiahalle, Munich, West Germany You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts The last night of the tour. 6-9’ / encore: ‘Money’. 210 The reported that: ‘It gets easier and 211 ANIMALS - UK TOUR easier to review a Pink Floyd concert without mentioning the music. The group has always exploited Tuesday 15 March theatrical effects and now, as it stands passively CONCERT playing in the background, the lights swoop around Empire Pool, Wembley, England the stadium; the smoke oozes along the sides; Set list: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / inflatable pigs and persons slide down wires ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs (Three Different suspended above the audience; images splash on to a Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / giant screen. And all the time the expensively ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish amplified Floyd sound of soaring guitar notes and You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts free-flowing keyboards fills any senses not satiated 6-9’ / encore: ‘Money’. with the sight. Whether the music is any good or not is a more difficult question - the Floyd is the Cecil B. Wednesday 16 March DeMille of the pop world, which is probably enough. CONCERT But it is not just the props that create a barrier Empire Pool, Wembley, England between the Pink Floyd’s music and the reviewer, nor This show was rescheduled from 20 March due to a even the elusive, but basically inhuman, nature of the badminton tournament commencing on 21 March music itself. It is the fascination of the Floyd success, leaving insufficient time for the courts to be prepared. for the Pink Floyd must be among the half dozen top The show of 15 March was the last show to be acts to come out of the contemporary music announced. phenomenon. Not only did the Floyd pack the 10,000 Set list: ‘Sheep’ / ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 1’ / ‘Dogs’ / seat Empire Pool five times last week, but the crowds ‘Pigs On The Wing, Part 2’ / ‘Pigs (Three Different of loitering hopefuls, nestling close outside the Ones)’ // ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5’ / auditorium to catch the remnants of the sound, would ‘Welcome To The Machine’ / ‘Have A Cigar’ / ‘Wish have been considered a healthy audience in You Were Here’ / ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts themselves by most artists. As for the new music, the 6-9’ / encore: ‘Money’. lyrics seem unnaturally aggressive for a band which is now extremely rich and mature, but then lyrics have

RIGHT: ROGER WATERS IN FULL SNARL AT THE EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, MARCH 1977.

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Thursday 22 June CONCERT Latrun Monastery, Neve Shalom, Israel Show moved from Ha-Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel due to protests from Palestinian pressure groups. Latrun Monastery is situated in a village of Israeli- Palestinian co-existence. The show was broadcast live on Israel’s 88FM radio and Reshet Bet radio.

Saturday 24 June CONCERT Vasilyevsky Spusk, Moscow, Russia Show moved from Red Square, Moscow, Russia due to a clash with state ceremonies.

Monday 26 June R S OGER W CONCERT

TER Viking Stadion, Jåttåvågen, Stavanger, Norway A

Thursday 29 June A TER CONCERT OGER W Live At The Marquee, Showgrounds, Cork, Ireland S R Roger Waters appeared as part of a season of events at this venue. Nick Mason played drums on The Dark Side Of The Moon and the encores at this show.

Saturday 1 July CONCERT Hyde Park Calling, Hyde Park, London, England 336 Roger Waters headlined on the first day of this two- 337 day multi-artist festival. Nick Mason played drums on The Dark Side Of The Moon and the encores at this show.

Sunday 2 July CONCERT Roskilde Festival, Orange Stage, Roskilde, Denmark Roger Waters headlined on the third day of this three-day multi-artist festival (30 June – 2 July 2006).

Friday 7 July CONCERT Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Saturday 8 July CANCELLED CONCERT Olimpiyskyi Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine Show cancelled due to a contractual dispute.

Monday 10 July CONCERT Loxol Car Park [formerly The Parade Grounds], Pembroke, Malta

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