Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
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| Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii | |
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 DVD cover of Live at Pompeii: Director's Cut |
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| Directed by | Adrian Maben |
| Produced by | Steve O'Rourke Michele Arnaud Reiner Moritz |
| Starring | Pink Floyd |
| Music by | Pink Floyd |
| Cinematography | Willy Kurant Gabor Pogany |
| Editing by | Jose Pinheiro |
| Distributed by | Universal Home Video |
| Release date(s) | September 1972 |
| Running time | 60 min. (original) 92 min. (director's cut) |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 Adrian Maben film featuring Pink Floyd performing six songs at the ruins of the empty ancient amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.
The performances of "Echoes", "A Saucerful of Secrets", and "One of These Days" were filmed from October 4, 1971 to October 7, 1971. The remaining songs were filmed in a Paris studio, along with additional bluescreen footage for insertion into the Pompeii performances. The sequences in Paris were filmed in late 1971/early 1972, and can be distinguished by the absence of Rick Wright's beard. This version was released in theaters in September, 1972 and appears on the DVD version.
In August of 1974, another version was released combining the original film with supposed recording sessions of The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios. These sessions were actually staged for the film, as the recording of the album had been completed when these sessions were filmed in January of 1973 and the band was mixing the album at the time.
During "One of These Days", the majority of the footage is of Nick Mason, as the films of the rest of the band were lost. During this song's performance, Mason loses a drumstick and keeps playing with one hand whilst retrieving another, without missing a beat.
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[edit] Release history
The original release, running for one hour, only featured the live footage. A second version had additional footage of the band as they recorded or pretended to record their album The Dark Side of the Moon, as well as interviews conducted off-camera by Maben. This version ran for 80 minutes. The Director's Cut is a 2003 DVD re-release with further additional footage, running 92 minutes.
[edit] DVD Features
- The Director's Cut
- The Original Version of the Film
- Pompeii Map and History
- Song Lyrics
- Photo Gallery
- Album Graphics
- Odds 'N' Sods
[edit] Original Track Listing
- "Intro Song"
- "Echoes, Part 1"
- "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
- "A Saucerful of Secrets"
- "One of these Days I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces"
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
- "Mademoiselle Nobs"
- "Echoes, Part 2"
[edit] Director's Cut Track Listing
- "Echoes, Part 1"/"On the Run" (Studio Footage) (Uncredited)
- "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
- "A Saucerful of Secrets"
- "Us and Them" (Studio Footage)
- "One of These Days"
- "Mademoiselle Nobs"
- "Brain Damage" (Studio Footage)
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
- "Echoes, Part 2"
Also Known as:
- Echoes: Pink Floyd (USA)
- Pink Floyd in Pompeii (Belgium)
[edit] Location
The Pompeii Stadium where the video was recorded can be clearly seen from above :
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- WikiSatellite view at WikiMapia
- Close-up color aerial from TerraServer-USA or Google Local
