Monday, July 20, 2009

Pink Floyd and the Moon Landing

Pretty damned cool. Via @barbwire55.

So what was David Gilmour doing during the moon landing, 40 years ago today? He was jamming out on the BBC. From The Guardian:
We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead — it’s a nice, atmospheric, spacey 12-bar blues.


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