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Pink Floyd 8-Tracks - The New Compilation Album Featuring Eight Curated Classics, Spanning 1971 - 1979.

The tracklist includes hits ‘Money’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’, ‘Time’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, alongside earlier cuts ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’, as well as an exclusive full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, previously available on the 1977 Animals 8-Track cartridge release.

Available 5th June on Vinyl, CD and digitally.
Pre-Order Here: https://t.co/r6gxvTWSbF

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Released on this day in 1967, See Emily Play. Pink Floyd's second single, it went to number 6 in the charts, where it spent 12 weeks in total. The cover image - shown in this advert - was drawn by Syd Barrett.

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Let's start the week in an abbey, in France, in 1971...55 years ago today: https://t.co/Kvw2B3dh8R

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On this day in 1988, Pink Floyd released One Slip as a single in the UK. There was a 7" (with a pink vinyl variant), 12", and 5" CDSingle, and included Terminal Frost plus a live version of The Dogs of War. The London Underground had this as a huge poster to spread the word to commuters and visitors alike:

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Released today in 1969 was Pink Floyd's first album without Syd Barrett, the soundtrack to the film More. Director Barbet Schroeder's film was set principally in Ibiza, and looks at the effects of heroin addiction. Roger Waters: "[Schroeder's] feeling about music for movies was, in those days, that he didn't want a soundtrack to go behind the movie. All he wanted was, literally, if the radio was switched on in the car, for example, he wanted something to come out of the car. Or someone goes and switches the TV on, or whatever it is. He wanted the soundtrack to relate exactly to what was happening in the movie, rather than a film score backing the visuals." The soundtrack album was therefore the only way to hear the music properly.

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Watch Pink Floyd’s “Learning to Fly” from Live in Venice, now available on YouTube: https://t.co/ugwgxWRKJt

The 1989 Pink Floyd concert, staged on a floating platform in Venice, remains one of rock history’s most legendary—and controversial—live events.

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As seen on the cover of a bootleg for a French show on this day in 1971:

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A poster for some of Pink Floyd's French gigs in 1988 - but do you know where the picture was taken?

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Appropriately for a College of Art (in this case, Hull) this 1967 Floyd gig had a hand drawn poster. Dan Ranson was the artist; he included a line from the much loved poem The King's Breakfast by A. A. Milne.

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Pink Floyd 8-Tracks is out now on @AppleMusic

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Pink Floyd 8-Tracks - Out Now on @amazonmusic @amazonmusicuk 

Listen now: https://t.co/aY0FF7Flys

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A 1975 Pink Floyd gig which resumed the band's North American dates that year (interrupted by recording sessions for the Wish You Were Here album). It features an iconic image from a film - which film and who directed/produced it?

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An event in 1970 - but with a Floyd-related inclusion; who performed on this day of that event, who was in the band, and what did they play?

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The Floyd played three nights at the now-demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, which had a concert capacity at that stage of over 100,000... Did any of you see them there (or elsewhere on the 1994 Division Bell tour)?

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Released today in 1972 was Obscured By Clouds, Pink Floyd's seventh album. Created as the soundtrack to the film La Vallée (The Valley), a French film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder. This video includes pictures from the recording sessions which were a week long: https://t.co/sj6u217ESX

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Please join us in wishing Gerald Scarfe a wonderful 90th birthday! Gerald has enjoyed a long and successful career, and part of that saw him responsible for a number of Pink Floyd related artworks, most notably, The Wall project. Hope you have a great birthday, Gerald!

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Let's finish the weekend with a look at the 1994 Division Bell tour rehearsals... https://t.co/oTyJjWw2g3

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Watch Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1–5)” from Live in Venice, now available on YouTube:
https://t.co/iAqaKRbjd8

The 1989 Pink Floyd concert, staged on a floating platform in Venice, remains one of rock history’s most legendary—and controversial—live events.

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Today in 1995, Pink Floyd released P.U.L.S.E. in the UK. The CD included a flashing red LED light. Nick Mason explained: ‘Essentially, it's a device which we thought was entertaining. It's an idea of Storm Thorgerson's which related to Dark Side and the pulse, and it's a live album so the box is “alive”. After that, in terms of seriously deep meanings, one might be struggling a bit.’ Here's an unusual image of the eyeballs in a forest:

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A new official Pink Floyd compilation, 8-Tracks, brings together eight essential classics from the band’s 1971–1979 era, including the iconic ‘Wish You Were Here’.
Available 5th June on Vinyl, CD and Digitally.
Pre-Order Here: https://t.co/AqcaZHxs9e

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Have you spotted the Pink Floyd plaque along London's Regent Street, near the BBC building? Here's Roger and Nick at the unveiling on this day 11 years ago; what do you think is being said?