That’s not the only surprise from Pink Floyd this week, however. Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University, Live KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Vol II, Live 23 Sept 1971 Live, Lyon 12 June 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972Īmsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live) Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Live 5 June 1971 Live at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany They Came in Peace, Live, Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971 It basically said, ‘If you haven’t used the recordings in the first 50 years, you aren’t going to get any more.’” The band likely released the EP 1965: Their First Recordings in 2015 for the same reason. With everything before that, there’s a new ‘Use It or Lose It’ provision. A rep for Sony told the magazine, “The copyright law in Europe was recently extended from 50 to 70 years for everything recorded in 1963 and beyond. Pink Floyd may have released these live albums to extend their copyright periods, Rolling Stone explains.

It’s also a kick to hear the cash register noises in “Money” recreated in a live setting for an audience who isn’t even expecting it. “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” runs for 15 minutes in that Tokyo show, and “Atom Heart Mother” comes complete with the record’s opening horns. While these performances are clearly looser than the notoriously meticulous band’s studio recordings, they also reveal how intense Pink Floyd’s live shows could be.

Most of the sets draw from Pink Floyd’s albums Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), and Obscured by Clouds (1972), but the collection also features early performances of songs from their 1973 classic The Dark Side of the Moon a 1972 Tokyo gig sees the band perform the album almost in its entirety, a year before its release.

Recorded between 19, the records immortalize performances across Europe, the United States, and Canada. Scroll down, or you’ll miss them: Pink Floyd quietly uploaded a dozen live albums to streaming services this week, all taken from concerts performed in the 1970s.

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