The article, which revealed some of the initial ideas under consideration for use on the cover of the Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, also talks about how his adaptation of a photo of a girl sitting on the side of a bath ended up on the One Slip cover.
"I took some oil crayons and paint and scribbled over the figure, almost totally covering the figure, but leaving enough to show a rather impressionistic figure which would be perfect for [Blue Matisse, a French pop-group!!
"Feeling pleased with my work I returned to the studio in Goodge Street, London. I spread the images out and Colin seemed very pleased with the results. We planned to show them to the group and their management in the next few days. The next day when I arrived at the studio all the images were gone. Colin told me that Storm [Thorgerson] had come to the studio with one of the musicians from Pink Floyd, possibly David Gilmour who was around a lot then. They saw the sketches and grabbed them for the singles cover image. Colin had told Storm they were for "Blue Matisse", and Storm had replied "Not any more!" I am really proud to this day that a little piece of my art has made it onto a Pink Floyd record cover."
Fast forward to the end of last year, and one of Tim's original artworks for this project (all created in the same sort of way) was discovered in a charity shop in the UK by Leigh Dorling. He contacted Tim, who replied back and kindly authenticated the piece of art. Leigh reached out to us as he felt we'd be interested in this follow-up to the story from 10 years ago. Thanks Leigh, and a very nice find!
Thanks for letting us know, Leigh, and thanks for the pictures of the artwork and the authentication!
We were recently made aware of an ambitious website, 500songs.com - A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. This podcast series, available either via the website itself, or via Spotify, Apple Music, etc., looks to take a deep dive into key pieces of music.
This brings us to episode 157, which takes a good look at See Emily Play. It gives a 74 minute analysis of the song, and the development of Pink Floyd in those early days.
Our thanks to Martin Lawson for letting us know about this interesting episode, which you can hear in full here:
With the end of the year looming, it's a good time to look back at what 2024 gave us.
There's been a lot of different releases that we've all experienced over the months, and it is interesting to look back at what there's been in a busy year. In March there was the Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes release of Going Home (Theme From Local Hero), which included David Gilmour amongst around 60 musicians.
April saw the lovely looking crystal clear vinyl of The Dark Side Of The Moon, with UV artwork. Later that month, Roger Waters released a picture disc of his Redux version of TDSOTM as part of Record Store Day.
May brought us the Animals 2018 Remix on Blu-ray and on digital platforms, bringing the 1977 album to life in multi channel gloriousness. This was presented with new artwork from the launch of the Animals 2018 remix, showing how Battersea Power Station is used these days for such promotions.
June saw the start of the 35-date Set The Controls tour from Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, thrilling audiences in the UK and Europe, and getting better and better as a band. Let's hope that there's more next year!
The DVD, Blu-ray and digital release of Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd was released in July, following the 2023 cinema screenings.
Of course, in September, we saw the release of the hotly anticipated Luck And Strange from David Gilmour, which was accompanied from later that month with live shows in Brighton and London, England, Rome, Italy, Los Angeles and New York, USA. Dates in Rome were filmed with the aim to release at some point, and once we have details of that, we'll let you know! David also contributed a guitar solo for Ice-T's band Body Count on their cover version of Comfortably Numb (a very unexpected collaboration!). David's team have also edited together footage from each city of the tour to construct a live version of The Piper's Call, released as a pre-Christmas treat.
Finally, to conclude the year, there's been another release of a bunch of live Pink Floyd concerts to be found on platforms such as Spotify for a limited period. There's thirteen gigs in total, all from 1974, and definitely worth checking out...
Out as a special, pre-Christmas surprise today is David Gilmour's The Piper's Call Live Around The World, recorded at The Brighton Centre, Rome's Circus Maximus, London's Royal Albert Hall, LA's Intuit Dome and NYC's Madison Square Garden. So, elements taken from each city that was lucky enough to get dates on David's 2024 tour.
The song was edited together by Charlie Andrew and Matt Glasbey to form one seamless track recorded throughout the Luck and Strange tour. The video below premieres today (Friday, 13th December) at 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 11am ET / 8am PT:
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With the end of the year looming, it's a good time to look back at what 2024 gave us.
Out as a special, pre-Christmas surprise today is David Gilmour's The Piper's Call Live Around The World, recorded at The Brighton Centre, Rome's Circus Maximus, London's Royal Albert Hall, LA's Intuit Dome and NYC's Madison Square Garden. So, elements taken from each city that was lucky enough to get dates on David's 2024 tour.
