Pink Floyd

"'Like the cries of dying galaxies lost in sheer corridors of time and space' (Peel reviews Floyd at Mothers, 1969-04-27, in Disc & Music Echo, earning himself a first Pseuds Corner entry in Private Eye)"



Pink Floyd originally consisted of university students Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and Syd Barrett. Founded in 1965, they gained popularity performing in London's underground music scene during the late 1960s. Under Barrett's creative leadership they released two charting singles, ‘Arnold Layne’ and ‘See Emily Play’, and a successful début album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined as a fifth member in December 1967, several months prior to Barrett's April 1968 departure due to deteriorating mental health. With the loss of Barrett, the band moved from psychedelic pop to a more progressive sound, with many tracks written collaboratively while on tour. With this line-up they achieved critical and commercial success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979)…. (read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel

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Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1976 Festive Fifty: Shine On You Crazy Diamond #8
 * 1976 Festive Fifty: Echoes #4
 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Pigs #14
 * 1979 Festive Fifty: Shine On You Crazy Diamond #30
 * 1980 Festive Fifty: Shine On You Crazy Diamond #60

Sessions

 * Five sessions. No known commercial releases.

1. Recorded: 1967-09-25. First broadcast: 01 October 1967. Repeated 05 November 1967/
 * The Gnome / Scarecrow / Set The Controls / Matilda Mother / Reaction In G / Flaming / Apples And Oranges (first broadcast 05 November 1967 repeat)

2. Recorded: 1967-12-20/ First broadcast: 31 December 1967. Repeated 11 February 1968.
 * Vegetable Man / Scream Thy Last Scream / Jug Band Blues / Pow R Toch H

3. Recorded: 1968-06-25. First broadcast: 11 August 1968.
 * The Murderistic Woman Or Careful With That Axe Eugene / The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules / Let There Be More Light / Julia Dream

4. Recorded: 1968-12-02 First broadcast: 15 December 1968
 * Point Me At The Sky / Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major / The Embryo / Interstellar Overdrive

5. Recorded: 1969-05-12 First broadcast: 14 May 1969. Repeated 25 September 1975.
 * Daybreak / Cymbaline / Green Is The Colour / The Narrow Way

Live

 * 19 July 1970: Concert recorded 16-07-16.
 * 1) Embryo
 * 2) Fat Old Sun
 * 3) Green Is The Colour
 * 4) Careful With That Axe Eugene
 * If
 * 1) Atom Heart Mother


 * 12 October 1971: Concert recorded 1971-09-30. Repeat 12 August 1977


 * 1) Embryo
 * 2) Blues
 * 3) Fat Old Sun
 * 4) One of These Days
 * 5) Echoes

(‘Embryo’ and ‘Blues’ not transmitted on BBC)

Other Shows Played

 * 1967
 * 01 July 1967: See Emily Play (single) Columbia
 * 06 August 1967: Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (LP: Piper at the Gates of Dawn) Columbia
 * 14 August 1967: Astronomy Domine (LP - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) Columbia
 * 14 August 1967: Matilda Mother (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) Columbia


 * 1968
 * 30 June 1968: Corporal Clegg (LP: A Saucerful Of Secrets) UK Columbia (JP: "Yesterday in the park, Pink Floyd played better than I've ever heard them play before. I don't know what it was, it must have been the people there, the feelings that everyone was generating, because they played superbly. It was nice to hear them play that well, because they've been through a lot of very sad things in the past year. Anyway, they've got a new LP out called 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', and yesterday they finished their set with 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', which at the time sounded like a sort of hymn to the open air.")
 * 03 July 1968: Let There Be More Light (LP: A Saucerful of Secrets) UK Columbia
 * 24 November 1968: Point Me At The Sky (single) EMI Columbia
 * 22 December 1968: Point Me At The Sky (single) EMI Columbia


 * 1969
 * 05 March 1969: Careful With That Axe, Eugene (b-side of single Point Me At The Sky) EMI Columbia
 * 11 October 1969: Astonomy Domine (Live) (LP - Ummagumma) Harvest
 * 25 October 1969: Sysyphus Part 4 (LP – Ummagumma) Harvest


 * 1970
 * 28 March 1970: Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up (LP - Zabriskie Point OST) MGM
 * 16 May 1970: Crumbling Land (LP – Zabriskie Point OST) MGM
 * 27 June 1970: Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up (LP - Zabriskie Point OST) MGM
 * 26 September 1970: Atom Heart Mother (LP – Atom Heart Mother) Harvest
 * 24 October 1970: Fat Old Sun (LP - Atom Heart Mother) Harvest


 * 1972
 * 09 June 1972: The Gold It’s In The… (LP – Obscured By Clouds) Harvest
 * 13 June 1972: Burning Bridges (LP – Obscured By Clouds) Harvest
 * 16 June 1972: Obscured By Clouds (LP – Obscured By Clouds) Harvest
 * 27 June 1972: Mudmen (LP – Obscured By Clouds) Harvest
 * 21 July 1972: See Emily Play (single) Columbia
 * 12 September 1972: Point Me At The Sky (single) Columbia


 * 1973
 * 20 March 1973: Time (LP – Dark Side Of The Moon) Harvest
 * 27 March 1973: Us & Them / Any Colour You Like (LP - Dark Side Of The Moon) Harvest
 * 29 March 1973: Fearless (LP – Meddle) Harvest
 * 05 April 1973: Brain Damage / Eclipse (LP – Dark Side Of The Moon) Harvest
 * 17 April 1973: Eclipse (LP – Dark Side Of The Moon) Harvest
 * 15 May 1973: Astronomy Domine (LP – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI
 * 05 July 1973: Point Me At The Sky (single, 1968) Columbia
 * 18 December 1973: Bike (double LP reissue-A Nice Pair) Harvest


 * 1975
 * 26 May 1975: It Would Be So Nice (single) Columbia


 * 1977
 * 03 January 1977: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (LP – Wish You Were Here) Harvest (FF1976 #8)
 * 03 January 1977: Echoes (LP – Meddle) Harvest (FF1976 #4)
 * 20 January 1977: Animals LP, side 1
 * 21 January 1977: Animals LP, side 2
 * 27 December 1977: Pigs (LP – Animals) Harvest (FF#14)


 * 1979
 * 12 November 1979: Another Brick In The Wall (Single) Harvest
 * 15 November 1979: Another Brick In The Wall (Single) Harvest
 * 26 November 1979: Run Like Hell (LP - The Wall) Harvest
 * 26 November 1979: Waiting For The Worms (LP - The Wall) Harvest
 * 27 November 1979: Comfortably Numb (LP - The Wall) Harvest
 * 26 December 1979: Shine On You Crazy Diamond [parts I - V] (LP-Wish You Were Here) Harvest (FF#30)


 * 1980s
 * 13 July 1982: Arnold Layne (single, 1967) EMI
 * 11 August 1987: Astronomy Domine (album - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)


 * 1990s
 * 18 November 1994: Flaming (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) Harvest
 * 26 November 1994 (BFBS): Flaming (LP-The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI Columbia
 * 18 March 1996: Lucifer Sam (LP – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI
 * 31 August 1999: Interstellar Overdrive (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
 * 03 November 1999: Arnold Layne (7") EMI Columbia (Peelenium 1967)
 * 16 November 1999: (JP: "In case I sound slightly hysterical tonight, it's because I've been up since about 5 o'clock this morning cos I had to do some stuff for the Today programme on Radio 4, talking about, it's yet another thing about Millenium records...somebody had put forward a list of tunes that ought to be played inside the Millenium dome in the minutes leading up to midnight on New Year's Eve. It was all the usual stuff: 'Imagine,' 'We Are The Champions' and things, and I had to come up with something else, and I thought, something kind of instrumental really, something heroic and intergalactic, and I said Pink Floyd's 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun': although it's an old tune, it might not be inappropriate, or indeed their 'Interstellar Overdrive.'")

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 * 2000s
 * 26 January 2000: JP (on the origin of Pink Floyd's 'Atomic Hart Mother'): "I was there, because I compared the programme in which it was played for the first time... When they came in to play it, they hadn't got a title for it - they'd only just written it - and I went out and got a copy of the London evening paper and we went down there and went through newspaper headlines trying to find one that would be an appropriate title for the piece. And it was all that kind of "Vicar In Tug Of Love Mercy Dash to Palace' kind of stuff, and then there was the story about somebody who had been fitted with a pacemaker and the headline was 'Atom Heart Mother', so the piece became 'Atom Heart Mother'. A little rock 'n' roll history there, for Dave in Colorado."
 * 10 January 2001: Careful With That Axe Eugene Columbia 9511
 * 26 June 2001: Wish You Were Here (CD - Wish You Were Here) Harvest
 * 07 February 2002: Astronomy Domine (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI (Perfumed Garden pick)
 * 30 April 2002: Fearless (LP – Meddle) Harvest
 * 04 June 2002: (In reply to an email from a listener, JP says one of the best gigs he's ever seen was Pink Floyd at Mothers.)
 * 18 December 2003 (Radio Eins): Fearless (Peel's story of how he and the Floyd were friends "before they became millionaires and stopped talking to me"; they heard him playing the Kop singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" repeatedly on "Top Gear" and were inspired to add it to the ending of this track, from the 1971 album "Meddle")
 * 04 November 2003: Atom Heart Mother (short sample)
 * 21 January 2004: Comfortably Numb (Shine On Sampler) Shine (JP plays Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" before the Scissor Sisters' version: "I used to really enjoy Pink Floyd and used to go and see them play a lot and I liked the fact that by and large they were fairly anonymous people and could go to one of their own gigs and stand in the audience as it were without anybody knowing who they were. And then they all got a bit stadium for me. But nevertheless, I used to have, one of my most treasured possessions was a live recording of Interstellar Overdrive which I've got on reel to reel tape, which was stolen by a burglar. And I always hoped that the burglar, who might possibly be listening to this programme, has enjoyed it over the last 25 years or however long it's been.")
 * 04 August 2004: See Emily Play (7 inch)' (EMI Columbia) ''(a listener request from 1979 that JP has just got round to answering!)
 * Radio Luxembourg (1972)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 2: Astronomy Domine (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI Columbia (released 1967)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 3: Pow R. Toc H. (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI Columbia (released 1967)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 3: Interstellar Overdrive (LP - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) EMI Columbia (released 1967)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 4: Bike (LP - Relics) Starline / EMI (compilation released 1971)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 5: Obscured By Clouds (LP – Obscured by Clouds) Harvest SHSP 4020 (Released 3 June 1972)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 5: Obscured By Clouds (LP – Obscured by Clouds) Harvest SHSP 4020 (Released 3 June 1972)
 * Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 6: Let There Be More Light (LP - A Saucerful Of Secrets) EMI Columbia (released 1968)