Up the Khyber

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“Up the Khyber”
Song by Pink Floyd
Album Soundtrack from the Film More
Released July 27, 1969
Recorded March 1969
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 2:12
Label Columbia Records
Writer Nick Mason, Richard Wright
Producer Pink Floyd
Soundtrack from the Film More track listing
Crying Song
(3)		 “Up the Khyber”
(4)		 Green Is the Colour
(5)


"Up the Khyber" is an instrumental by the British rock band Pink Floyd. It was written by their drummer Nick Mason, and keyboardist Richard Wright. Essentially, the piece is an extended drum solo with added hectic piano playing haunting organ lines and unusual tape effects. It is approximately 2 minutes and 12 seconds long, and first appeared on Pink Floyd's Soundtrack from the Film More.

"Up the Khyber" is Cockney rhyming slang. "Up the Khyber Pass" = "Up the Arse".

[edit] Live

The song was played live in a slightly altered state on The Man And The Journey where it was entitled, "Doing It".

[edit] The Man and the Journey

Main article: The Man and the Journey

"Up the Khyber" was one of the many tracks which were played at some point or another as "Doing It". Others include "Syncopated Pandemonium", "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Entertainment)", and "Party Sequence". All of these prominently feature drums.

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