Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
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. (1972) 80 min. (1974) 92 min. (director's cut)
Language	English
Followed by	Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
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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 front projection footage for insertion into the Pompeii performances.^[1] 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 is also included on the DVD edition as an extra feature. 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.

Contents 1 Release history 2 Track listing 2.1 1972 Original Track Listing 2.2 1974 Theatrical Version and VHS Release Track Listing 2.3 Director's Cut Track Listing 3 Additional Information 4 References 5 External links

[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 running 92 minutes. In addition to the concert and interview footage, it includes computer-generated images of outer space and of Pompeii as well as then-recent footage of Abbey road and the Apollo missions. The original "full screen" image has been chopped up in this version and is presented in "fake widescreen", although the original cut is presented on the DVD as an "added bonus".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 1972 Original Track Listing

1. "Intro Song"
2. "Echoes, Part 1"
3. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
4. "A Saucerful of Secrets"
5. "One of These Days"
6. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
7. "Mademoiselle Nobs"
8. "Echoes, Part 2"

[edit] 1974 Theatrical Version and VHS Release Track Listing

1. "Intro Song"
2. "Echoes, Part I"
3. "On the Run" (Studio Footage)
4. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
5. "A Saucerful of Secrets"
6. "Us and Them" (Studio Footage)
7. "One of These Days"
8. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
9. "Brain Damage" (Studio Footage)
10. "Mademoiselle Nobs"
11. "Echoes, Part II"

[edit] Director's Cut Track Listing

1. "Echoes, Part 1"/"On the Run" (Studio Footage) (Uncredited)
2. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
3. "A Saucerful of Secrets"
4. "Us and Them" (Studio Footage)
5. "One of These Days"
6. "Mademoiselle Nobs"
7. "Brain Damage" (Studio Footage)
8. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
9. "Echoes, Part 2"

Also Known as:

• Echoes: Pink Floyd (USA)
• Pink Floyd in Pompeii (Belgium)

[edit] Additional Information

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The rap group The Beastie Boys made a music video for their song "Gratitude" that appears to be a homage to the film. In addition to copying its directorial style of slow horizontal tracking shots, the video shows the band's amplifiers labeled "Pink Floyd London" - just as Pink Floyd's amplifiers are labeled in the film. The video ends with a message that reads, "THIS VIDEO IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DIED AT POMPEII".
• During the song One of These Days, Nick Mason lost a drumstick but quickly retrieved another without missing a beat.
• The Pompeii Stadium where the video was recorded can be clearly seen from above in aerial images of coordinates 40°45′04″N 14°29′41″E / 40.751166, 14.494700 (The Pompeii Stadium)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• • Boys Gratitude Music Video

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