Pink Floyd

New Issue MOJO MAGAZINE Celebrates PINK FLOYD’s Masterpiece Turning 50 in 2023

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15 December 2022

British long-time running music magazine
MOJO has its new massive issue #351 out.

The mag celebrates the 50th anniversary (released 24 March 1973) of
PINK FLOYD‘s timeless masterpiece THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON,
with the help of top musicians and writers. Plus: the real inspiration
for its cover design revealed.

Also in the issue: the Stones, Blur, Nick Drake
and everything else to look forward to in 2023.

The appended CD features 15 songs in the key of Floyd: inspirations,
associated artists, inspired covers, including tracks by Love, Miles Davis,
Paul Butterfield, Nina Persson, Ron Grainer and more!

You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.

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Picked By TURN UP THE VOLUME – 10 Big Albums Turning 50 In 2023

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Back in time

2 December 2022

Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
8th longplayer

Released: 24 March 1973
Score: #2 in the UK and Australia,
#1 in the US and Canada

Full LP Stream

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PINK FLOYD: Bio – Discography

Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: ALADDIN SANE

Released: 20 April 973
Score: #1 in the UK, #17 in the US

Full LP Stream

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DAVID BOWIE: Bio – Discography
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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: CLOSING TIME
His debut LP

Released: 6 March 1973

Full LP Stream

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TOM WAITS: Bio – Discography
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Band: THE STOOGES
Album: RAW POWER
Third longplayer

Released: 7 February 1973

Full LP Stream

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THE STOOGES: Bio – Discography
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Band: NEW YORK DOLLS
Album: New York Dolls
Debut longplayer

Released: 3 July 1973
Score: #116 in the US

Full LP Stream

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NYD: Bio – Discography

Artist: LOU REED
Album: BERLIN
Third LP

Released: 5 October 1973
Score: #7 in the UK

Full LP Stream

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LOU REED: Bio – Discography

Artist: JOHN CALE
Album: 1919 PARIS
Third longplayer

Released: 25 February 1973

Full LP Stream

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JOHN CALE: Bio – Discography
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Band: ROXY MUSIC
Album: FOR YOUR PLEASURE
2nd LP

Released: 23 March 1973
Score: #4 in the UK,

Full LP Stream

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ROXY MUSIC: Bio – Discography
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Band: CAN
Album: FUTURE DAYS
4th longplayer

Released: August 1973

Full LP Stream

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CAN: Bio – Discography
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Band: WINGS
Album: BAND ON THE RUN
Third LP

Released: 30 November 1973
Score: #1 in the UK and the US

Full LP Stream

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WINGS: Bio – Discography

Number One Albums This Day In 1969 (2) and 1975

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4 October 2022

Band: THE BEATLES
Album: ABBEY ROAD – 11th LP
Released: 26 September 1969

Score: #1 in the UK for several weeks from 4 October 1969 on.
Also #1 in the US, Australia, Canada and in most European countries

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THE BEATLES: Bio – Discography

Band: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Album: GREEN RIVER – 3rd LP

Released: 3 August 1969
Score: #1 in the US for four
weeks from 4 October 1969 on
#2 in Canada, #20 in the UK

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CCR: Bio – Discography

Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: WISH YOU WERE HERE – 9th LP

Released: 12 September 1975
Score: #1 in the UK on 4 October 1975

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PINK FLOYD: Bio – Discography

PINK FLOYD Released Supreme Debut Album ‘THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN’ 55 Years Ago

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Back in time

4 August 2022

This day 55 years ago, on 4 August 1967, art-rock icons PINK FLOYD launched
their debut LP, the stunning ‘THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN’.

An indefectible, influential psychedelic classic with most of the songs written by troubled genius Syd Barrett. A year later he was fired for his erratic and uncontrollable behavior due to too many drugs.

NME‘s review: ” ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ has inspired plenty of people – Blur, The Coral, Klaxons, The Horrors, Devendra Banhart, pretty much every Home Counties art-school band ever – which makes it all the more ironic that one of the few bands that haven’t copied it is Pink Floyd themselves. It’s down to one man, of course: before he lost his mind, Pink Floyd’s main songwriter was Syd Barrett, a sensitive, good-looking middle-class art student from Cambridge. His songs on ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ assemble a cast of cats, silver
shoes, unicorns, mice called Gerald, bikes, gnomes and the I Ching, and put them to some
of the most inventive and surprising psychedelic music ever recorded.”
Score: 9/10 – full review here

Single

Album in full…

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PINK FLOYD: Website – Facebook – Biography – All Albums


Back sleeve

Waking Up… Rising Up

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30 June 2022

Last March PINK FLOYD (Dave Gilmour and Nick Mason) released the band’s
first new original music in 25 years with opera-like anthem HEY HEY RISE UP.

A song written by David Gilmour (who has Ukrainian family) in support of charity fund Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief. The majestic composition features a monumental vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the popular Ukrainian band BoomBox.

Now the news came in that this special humdinger will be available as both a 7-inch vinyl and CD single on July 15 in the UK, Europe and other markets, while it will be released on August 3 in Japan. In North America, Canada, Australia and Mexico, it will arrive on October 21. Pre-order info here.

Breathtaking…

BOOMBOX: Bio

Poster This! Historic PINK FLOYD Concerts In London In 1994

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PINK FLOYD started a 15-night run at Earls Court
in London on 12 Oct 1994.

Less than a minute after the band had started playing
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, a scaffolding stand holding
1200 fans collapsed.

Ninety-six people were injured, with 36 needing hospital
treatment. The show was immediately canceled and
re-scheduled.

The concert poster…

One of those 15 Earl’s Court shows in full below…

PINK FLOYD Released Their SYD BARRETT Written Single ‘SEE EMILY PLAY’ 55 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

16 June 2022

55 years ago today, on 16 June 1967, mega legends PINK FLOYD released
their 2nd single SEE EMILY PLAY. A psychedelic pop pearl written by the late
great SYD BARRETT. He played slide guitar on the cracker using a plastic ruler.

Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
She’s often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily (Emily)
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play

Here’s the historic crazy clip…

PINK FLOYD: Story

10 Facts About PINK FLOYD Masterpiece ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’ – No 1 In The US This Day In 1973

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Back in time

28 April 2022

Can’t get tired of listening to this imperishable, psychedelic and mind-boggling
magnum opus. It topped the US charts this day in 1973. Forty-nine years ago.

10 Dark Side Of The Moon facts

1. Dark Side has sold approximately 34 million copies worldwide.

2. The album is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being on the charts longer than any other album in history, namely 591 consecutive weeks or 11.4 years in Billboard top 200! A total of approx 14 whole years (741 weeks) in and back in top 200,
and a staggering 26 years in some Billboard chart or other.

3. The original title for the album was Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics) as the group find out that prog rockers Medicine Head just had an LP out, named ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ in 1972 on DJ John Peel’s record label. Since the release was less not a commercial success, PF decided to go ahead with its plans.

4. Throughout the 1990s rumours persisted that the album was intended
to be played back while watching The Wizard of Oz.

4. The stoned laughter used in the background of Speak to Me and Brain Damage is from Peter Watts, a road manager for the Floyd pictured on the back of the Ummagumma LP.

5. The album was recorded at Abbey Road on then state of the art 16-track equipment.

6. Australian radio listeners voted the album the best album to have sex to in 1990.

7. Us and Them was originally written by Richard Wright in 1969 as an instrumental piano solo intended for use in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point film which the band had been commissioned to score.

8.. The music and lyrics for the entire album were written during a seven week period in which the band were preparing for a tour in which they desperately wanted to premier new material.

9. The stoned laughter used in the background of Speak to Me and Brain Damage is from Peter Watts, a road manager for the Floyd pictured on the back of the Ummagumma LP.

10. The album was first performed live at the Dome in Brighton, England on the 20th of January 1972. Due to a tape malfunction, the concert only made it as far as ‘Money’ that evening.

Now on my stereo (of course)…

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PINK FLOYD: Facebook – All Albums

First New PINK FLOYD Music Since 1994 In Support For The Ukrainian People

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

19 April 2022

This is the first new original music that PINK FLOYD have
recorded together as a band since 1994’s The Division Bell.

HEY HEY RISE UP is written by David Gilmour and released in support of the people of Ukraine, featuring an extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of popular Ukrainian band BoomBox. All proceeds go to Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief.

David Gilmour: “In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre. Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band, Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band backed me for my set – we played ‘Wish You Were Here’ for Andriy that night. Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense. Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.”

The track uses Andriy’s vocals taken from his Instagram post of him in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square singing Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow a patriotic Ukrainian anthem that emerged during the first world war. The title of this new Pink Floyd song is taken from the last line of the song which translates as ‘Hey, hey, rise up and rejoice’. The melodramatic opening choral parts are by the Ukrainian Veryovka Folk Song and Dance Ensemble.

You can watch singer/soldier Andriy Khlyvnyuk singing the song for his unfortunate
countrymen (that inspired Gilmour to write the gripping goosebumps piece) here.

Listen to Hey Hey Rise Up and buy the charity song on iTunes…

BOOMBOX: Bio