La Carrera Panamericana

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La Carrera Panamericana

VHS cover of La Carrera Panamericana
Directed by Ian McArthur
Produced by Ian McArthur
Steve O'Rourke
Starring David Gilmour
Nick Mason
Music by Pink Floyd
Distributed by Sony Music Video (SMV) Enterprises
Release date(s) June 2, 1992
Running time 65 min.
Language English
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La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, due to the fact that the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race.

During the course of the race Gilmour crashed, and while he was unharmed, O'Rourke (his map-reader) suffered a broken leg. Mason finished eighth overall with his co-pilot, English auto racer Valentine Lindsay.

The music is a combination of previously released Floyd material (re-edited into a soundtrack) and material composed for the video. The tracks composed for the video are the first studio recordings made after Richard Wright re-joined the band in 1988. The new studio recordings were produced by Gilmour. The songs "Pan Am Shuffle" and "Carrera Slow Blues" are notable as the first tracks co-written by Wright since 1975's Wish You Were Here, as well as the first co-written by Mason since 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.

A soundtrack album was not released, but the tracks are available on the A Tree Full of Secrets RoIO.

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[edit] Previously recorded

[edit] Original material

  • "Country Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Small Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Big Theme" (Gilmour)
  • "Carrera Slow Blues" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason)
  • "Mexico '78" (Gilmour)
  • "Pan Am Shuffle" (Gilmour/Wright/Mason)
Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett | David Gilmour | Nick Mason | Roger Waters | Richard Wright
Discography
Studio albums: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) | A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) | Ummagumma (1969) | Atom Heart Mother (1970) | Meddle (1971) | The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) | Wish You Were Here (1975) | Animals (1977) | The Wall (1979) | The Final Cut (1983) | A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) | The Division Bell (1994)
Soundtracks: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1968) | More (1969) | Zabriskie Point (1970) | Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Live: Ummagumma (1969) | Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) | P*U*L*S*E (1995) | Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 (2000)
Compilations: Relics (1971) | A Nice Pair (1973) | Masters of Rock (1974) | A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) | Works (1983) | Shine On (The Early Singles) (1992) | Echoes (2001)
Films
Live at Pompeii | The Wall | Delicate Sound of Thunder | La Carrera Panamericana | London '66-'67 | The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon | P*U*L*S*E
Related articles
Bob Klose | Alan Parsons | Dick Parry | Storm Thorgerson/Hipgnosis | Steve O'Rourke | Live performances | Trivia | A Tree Full of Secrets | Pigs | Publius Enigma | Dark Side of the Rainbow | The Man and the Journey
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