The track forms part of the 2016 remix of the album Obscured By Clouds, included in the box set. The remix has been done from the original master tapes by Andy Jackson and Damon Iddins. Childhood's End was one of the few songs from the soundtrack of La Vallée to be included in Pink Floyd's live shows and was featured on European dates, starting on December 1, 1972, and at the start of the band's March 1973 tour of North America, usually with an extended instrumental passage.
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Last night, Roger Waters and his band performed his third and final concert in four days in Mexico City, a free show to a couple of hundred thousand people. The set list for the shows - as made clear from the posters advertising them - covered key areas of the Pink Floyd back catalogue, with what we're sure was impressive staging and presentation. We've now had one short review of the shows, but if you went to any of them, please let us know how they went and what your impressions were.
In separate Waters news, he spoke at The Occupation of the American Mind premiere, and revealed that his proper tour, lasting a couple of years, will start at the end of May next year; he said that the shows this year (including the upcoming Desert Trip concerts) will be the only ones presenting the selected back catalogue material in this format - the 2017-18 tour will be an all-new show. More information as it is announced...
Yesterday evening saw night three of David Gilmour's concerts at the Royal Albert Hall - the middle show of five taking place this month to close the Rattle That Lock Euro tour - and an interesting surprise to those attending.
Those in the right position, and quite eagle-eyed, might have spotted a familiar face lurking in the wings stage right as Time/Breathe (reprise) began. Thespian Benedict Cumberbatch is not so well known for his singing (although he did sing in a 2013 production) but he ably took on the role of the Doctor in the finale, Comfortably Numb. There was a healthy degree of shock and surprise to see the star of Sherlock, and one of the Star Trek films (amongst many other things) on stage for this song, and he seemed to have a whale of a time performing it. From David's official YouTube page, here's a video of Cumberbatch in action:
The new issue of the UK's Prog Magazine is published on Wednesday (September 28th), which features an extensive feature on Pink Floyd's 1970 album - their first number one - Atom Heart Mother. With a customised Lulubelle III on the cover, it should be an eyecatching item in magazine retailers.
With the impending release of Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965-72 box set the people behind the magazine tell us that it's a Floyd extravaganza within the pages of the magazine - they look at the making of Atom Heart Mother, the band's film soundtracks and lift the lid on the rarities hidden inside the box.
There are also exclusive interviews with Van der Graaf Generator, Brian Eno, Kansas, Opeth, Nosound, Glass Hammer, Gong - Band, Stick Men (Official), Director John Carpenter, DARKHER, Dec Burke and more. Plus all the coverage from the Prog Awards, a 10-track CD and a free Prog Awards programme to boot.
Ticket sales for The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, which opens at London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum on May 13th 2017 and runs until October 1st, are selling well, with some times on certain dates - particularly early in the run - completely sold out.
At the end of last month, the exhibition was launched at the museum, with Nick Mason on hand to accompany a relative of Algie, who famously flew between the chimneys of Battersea Power Station for the cover of 1977's Animals (and made his escape during the photo session). The pig at the V&A behaved perfectly, being seen from office buildings across London for quite some distance.
As a special treat, here are three special pictures from the V&A launch.
If you are yet to get yours, tickets are priced at £20 (Monday-Friday), £24 (Saturday-Sunday), and concessions, including family tickets at reduced prices, are available. V&A Members go free. Advance booking is strongly advised. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, Seetickets, direct from the V&A at vam.ac.uk/pinkfloyd, by calling 0800 912 6961 (booking fee applies), or in person at the V&A itself.
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