Original, one-off artwork by PINK FLOYD drummer Nick Mason is being auctioned on eBay in support of The Prince’s Foundation for Children & The Arts, and bidding concludes today (Sunday, May 13th).
Mason’s original signed artwork features him behind the wheel of his Bugatti racing car, and is included in a collection of over 50 self-portraits by artists, celebrities and sports legends as the culmination to Face Britain, the UK’s largest art project.
On February 27th in Europe and February 28th in North America, EMI will release Immersion and Experience editions of Roger Waters’ opus, PINK FLOYD’s The Wall, as the final installment of the recent Why Pink Floyd? reissues and extended releases. The Wall remains Pink Floyd’s biggest-selling release after 1973’s legendary The Dark Side Of The Moon.
Pink Floyd have posted Behind The Wall Part 2 and 3 from the The Wall Immersion box set. Check it out all three below:
Released in November 1979, The Wall topped the album charts in the US, France, Germany, Sweden and Australia. ‘Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2’ – Pink Floyd’s first UK single since 1968 – became a #1 hit, selling more than one million copies within weeks of its release.
Between 1980 and 1981, Pink Floyd staged 31 performances of The Wall in the US, UK and Germany. It was a spectacular show that included a 40-foot wall, constructed, brick by brick, across the front of the stage during the performance. In 2010 and 2011 Roger Waters toured a new production of The Wall to huge international acclaim. He was joined onstage in May 2011 at London’s 02 Arena by guitarist, David Gilmour and drummer, Nick Mason. He continues to tour in the Southern Hemisphere and North America in 2012.
The Wall Immersion 7-disc edition includes a DVD featuring a film clip from the 1980 tour and a Behind The Wall documentary, plus, for the first time, CDs of excerpts from Roger Waters’ original demos and work-in-progress versions of songs on the final album. Additionally, among these previously unheard versions are David Gilmour’s original demos of ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Run Like Hell’. The Immersion set also includes The Wall Live, compiled from the 1980-1981 original tour.
Both The Wall Immersion box set and Experience edition include a rare recording of ‘Another Brick In The Wall Part 1’. A highlight for fans, this demo showcases the evolution of the final track. Additionally, The Doctor explores the origins of the landmark track ‘Comfortably Numb’, giving further insight into Pink Floyd’s early demo recordings.
Following on from the Immersion and Experience editions of The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, these new versions of The Wall offer listeners a unique insight into another hugely successful chapter in the Pink Floyd story.
In 1978, after finishing Pink Floyd’s Animals stadium tour, Roger Waters devised the concept for the album The Wall. The album is a partly autobiographical story about a fictional rock star named Pink looking back at his early life and reflecting on the nature of fame and success.
Waters presented his band mates David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason with an extensive demo of songs. Pink Floyd recorded their eleventh album The Wall throughout 1979 in France, New York and Los Angeles, assisted by co-producer, Bob Ezrin and engineer, James Guthrie.
An adjunct to the sessions was the famous addition of a group of pupils from London’s Islington Green School, who recorded their backing vocals (“We don’t need no education…”) on ‘Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2’ at Pink Floyd’s own Britannia Row Studios in London. This became the world’s introduction to the album with the release of its first single, an instant success, accompanied by a promotional film which included several of the groundbreaking images from the story, including Gerald Scarfe’s brilliantly realized marching hammers.
Pink Floyd: The Wall Immersion box set, Experience edition and Collectors 180g 2LP Vinyl edition will be released February 28th through EMI. The 2CD remastered Discovery edition is out now.
According to Bizcommunity.com, a selection of legendary artist Storm Thorgerson’s fine art prints will be shown at The Raging Storm exhibition opposite Church Square in Cape Town, South Africa from Monday, February 20th to Saturday, March 10th.
The signed and numbered works include the album art of PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, BLACK SABBATH, ANTHRAX, ALAN PARSONS and PETER GABRIEL. Gallery hours are all day Monday to Saturday from 8.30am.
A feature-length documentary film Taken By Storm will be shown, followed by an intimate Q & A session with Storm Thorgerson on Wednesday, 22 February at 6.30pm and Thursday, 23 and Friday, February 24 at 8pm.
The Super Audio CD (SACD) edition of PINK FLOYD’s Wish You Were Here album will be released in North America on January 10th, 2012.
The legendary English psychedelic rock band’s 1975 masterpiece, Wish You Were Here, remains a staple of poignant emotion, pioneering arrangements, clever wit, and timeless performance. Forever an audiophile and music staple, the blockbuster is finally available on an incredible-sounding digital version, courtesy of this Hybrid 5.1 SACD.
Mixed for 5.1 from original multi-track master tapes by Pink Floyd engineer James Guthrie, Wish You Were Here reveals countless new layers of information, detail, and dynamics. We’ll stake our reputation on it: You will never hear a better digital edition, and for that matter, whether you opt to listen in stereo or surround, you’ll never be closer to the music. The stereo version is transferred from the original analog master tapes.
Anchored by the longing title track, heartfelt tribute to founder Syd Barrett, ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’, and nervy takedown of music-business hypocrisy, ‘Have a Cigar’, the follow-up to Dark Side Of The Moon is equally great and just as iconic. As much as any multiplatinum album in history, Wish You Were Here employs cutting-edge studio effects and unimaginable atmospheric techniques to paint an impossibly broad canvas.
On this SACD, the enormous soundscapes, introspective echoes, and brazen guitar washes take on a life of their own. Airy, complete with full frequency extension and unparalleled realism, the disc drops Pink Floyd into your listening room. This is reach-out-and-touch-it quality, the kind of perspective and experience for which all audiophiles crave.
Wish You Were Here tracklisting:
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Part One)
‘Welcome To The Machine’
‘Have A Cigar’
‘Wish You Were Here’
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Part Two)
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On November 8th, EMI will release Immersion and Experience editions of PINK FLOYD‘s Wish You Were Here, following on from the success of the Immersion and Experience editions of The Dark Side Of The Moon, which proved that pigs can fly! This second phase of EMI’s imaginative Pink Floyd re-issues and extended releases, also includes A Foot In The Door – The Best Of Pink Floyd, with new artwork by Storm Thorgerson and the track listing personally chosen by David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s ninth studio album, was recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios, and, when originally released in September 1975, it shot to the top of the charts in both the UK and US. The mood of the album is one of absence, which includes ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, a track inspired by former bandmate Syd Barrett.
Wish You Were Here Immersion five-disc edition, includes previously unreleased material from the band’s 1974 Wembley dates, including a 20 minute live rendition of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and ‘Raving And Drooling’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’, two tracks that didn’t make it onto the original album and which were subsequently reworked to become ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’ on the Animals album . Immersion comes with an exclusive photo book edited by longtime Floyd photographer Jill Furmanovsky and a 36 page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson. A must have for all Pink Floyd fans, the collection also includes the forgotten and unique recording of ‘Wish You Were Here’, featuring the legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli.
Nick Mason said of the track: “It’s absolutely charming and it brings a different quality to the music… I think that it’s perhaps one of the nicest little jewels in the whole collection.”
The Experience edition of Wish You Were Here will include the original studio album, digitally remastered by James Guthrie, along with a CD of previously unreleased live and studio recordings (identical to Disc two of the Immersion edition) and a new 20 page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson, housed in a newly designed Digipak.
Released simultaneously, A Foot In The Door – The Best Of Pink Floyd, is a collection of classic Pink Floyd tracks. . This specially remastered compilation also features newly created artwork from Storm Thorgerson. The collection spans the band’s entire career.
Wish You Were Here – Immersion box-set contains 5 discs.
Disc 1 – CD1:
The Original Album, Remastered in 2011
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Parts 1-5)
‘Welcome To The Machine’
‘Have A Cigar’
‘Wish You Were Here’
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Parts 6-9)
Disc 2 – CD2:
Unreleased Audio Tracks (approx. 66 mins)
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Live At Wembley 1974) 20’22”
‘Raving And Drooling’ (Live At Wembley 1974) 12’35”
‘You’ve Got To Be Craz’y (Live At Wembley 1974) 18’09”
‘Wine Glasses’ (from the ‘Household Objects’ project) 2’12”
‘Have A Cigar’ (Alternative Version) 7’07”
‘Wish You Were Here’ (with Stéphane Grappelli) 6’13”
Disc 3 – DVD 1, All Audio:
‘Wish You Were Here’ Multi – Channel Audio Mixes
‘Wish You Were Here’ 5.1 Surround Mix (2009) 448 kbps
‘Wish You Were Here’ 5.1 Surround Mix (2009) 640 kbps
‘Wish You Were Here’ LPCM Original Stereo Mix (1975) remastered in 2011
‘Wish You Were Here’ 4.0 Quad Mix (1975) 448 kbps
‘Wish You Were Here’ 4.0 Quad Mix (1975) 640 kbps
Disc 4 – DVD 2, Audio Visual:
Audio-Visual Material (approx. 75 mins)
Concert Screen Films, 1975 (20 mins approx.)
-‘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Part 1)
– ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’
– ‘Welcome To The Machine’
in LPCM Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound
Storm Thorgerson Short Film, 2000 (6 mins) in Stereo only
Disc 5 – Blu-Ray:
High Resolution Audio and Audio – Visual Material
‘Wish You Were Here’ 5.1 Surround Mix (2009) 96kHz/24bit
‘Wish You Were Here’ Original Stereo Mix (1975) remastered in 2011, 96kHz/24bit
‘Wish You Were Here’ 4.0 Quad Mix (1975) 96kHz/24bit
Concert Screen Films, 1975 (20 mins approx.) LPCM Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound, 48kHz/24bit
– ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Part 1)
– ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’
– ‘Welcome To The Machine’
Storm Thorgerson Short Film, 2000 (6 mins) in Stereo only
Plus:
36-page 26cm x 26 cm booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson,
20-page 26cm x 26cm photo book edited by Jill Furmanovsky
Exclusive Storm Thorgerson Art Print,
4 x Collectors’ Cards featuring art and comments by Storm Thorgerson,
Replica of Wish You Were Here tour ticket
Replica of Wish You Were Here backstage pass
Printed scarf
3 x clear marbles,
9 x coasters (unique to this box) featuring early Storm Thorgerson design sketches, and a 12-page credits booklet.
A Foot In The Door – The Best Of Pink Floyd will feature the following tracks:
‘Hey You’
‘See Emily Play’
‘The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
‘Another Brick In The Wall’, Part 2
‘Have A Cigar’
‘Wish You Were Here’
‘Time’
‘The Great Gig In The Sky’
‘Money’
‘Comfortably Numb’
‘High Hopes’
‘Learning To Fly’
‘The Fletcher Memorial Home’
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’
‘Brain Damage’
‘Eclipse’
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