Phase 1 of the Why Pink Floyd release schedule has happened and many of you will have your Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Edition and Discovery albums and enjoying the glorious sounding enhanced CDs and DVDs. I myself have the DSotM Immersion Edition and Vinyl in addition to the Discovery box set of all the studio albums which I am most pleased about. Still got lots of listening and immersing to do hence I am about to start my review of the Dark Side Immersion edition shortly. However, lets now turn our attention to the second phase of the Why Pink Floyd release schedule which will see Dark Side of the Moon follow up album Wish You Were Here get the Experience and Immersion treatment! Wish You Were Here Immersion Edition November 7th 2011 will see Wish You Were Here – ‘Immersion’ and ‘Experience’ editions, Vinyl LP and digital...
Links – BBC 6 Music | Why Pink Floyd Re-Release 2011 | Discuss on the forum | Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our free Newsletter to remain informed of Pink Floyd News! Other Things of Interest > Pink Floyd Photos | Pink Floyd Tour Dates The Pink Floyd will be taking over the airwaves at BBC 6 Music from 7pm on 7th October 2011 until 3am the next morning in the aptly named “Pink Floyd Night”. 8 programs will involve play-lists, analysis of albums, a new interview with David Gilmour and Nick Mason (on The Record Producers, see below), live recordings and documentary analysis and should keep most Pink Floyd fans out of trouble for a good few hours!I think the real nugget in all of this will be The Record Producers program at 9pm on 7th October as some of the other items are...
Sound & Vision’s Mike Mettler interviewed Nick Mason at Hayden Planetarium in NYC at the Capitol Records launch of Why Pink Floyd. The November issue of the audiophile magazine will feature the fruits of his labour! Here is an excerpt… “This is one case where the record company got it right.” So assessed Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason last night at an exclusive launch party at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mason was addressing the crowd about EMI’s massive Why Pink Floyd? campaign before our select group was ushered up into the Hayden Planetarium to experience the “interplanetary playback” of a previously unreleased performance of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety at Empire Pool at Wembley in London on November 16, 1974. The initial installments of the Why? campaign — Discovery editions of 14 remastered...
Links – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Discuss on the forum | Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our free Newsletter to remain informed of Pink Floyd News! The US late night chat show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is hosting a Pink Floyd Week starting from tonight to co-incide with the launch of Why Pink Floyd. Tonight’s show will see Nick Mason being interviewed and The Shins will perform Breathe from Dark Side of the Moon. On Tuesday, Roger Waters will be interviewed and will also perform In The Flesh with The Foo Fighters! On Wednesday, MGMT will perform Lucifer Sam from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. On Thursday, Dierks Bentley will be performing Wish You Were Here. Friday will conclude the Pink Floyd Week with Pearl Jam performing Mother from The Wall. The TV show is broadcast Monday to Friday at...
Links – Previous news Pig over Battersea Power Station for Why Pink Floyd launch | Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our free Newsletter to remain informed of Pink Floyd News! The famous Animals cover has been re-created this morning at 6:30am until 7.20am at London’s Battersea Power Station. This was, of course, for the launch of Why Pink Floyd, the first phase of the release starting today. Storm Thorgerson originally set Algie the pig up at the disused power station back in 1976 to create the iconic Pink Floyd album cover. The original pig blew away in the wind and EMI were not wanting a repeat of that today! Luckily Algie did not blow away today like he did last time and ended up on a farm far away! If you have a photo from this morning nad would like to share with NPF then...
Links – The Greatest Gig in the Sky | Pink Floyd YouTube Channel | Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our free Newsletter to remain informed of Pink Floyd News! As part of the promotional activities of the Why Pink Floyd release schedule, an hour long Dark Side of the Moon video has appeared on the official Pink Floyd YouTube channel for you to watch and enjoy. It is called The Greatest Gig in the Sky. The audio is from the November 1974 BBC recording of Pink Floyd’s Wembley performance of Dark Side of the Moon and lets you listen to the album all the way through. The video includes rear screen projection videos that were shown at the live shows on stage. To encourage fans to converge and discuss, the video is “broadcast” on the hour every hour until next Wednesday 28th so make sure...
