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When Pink Floyd<\/a> hit the road in June of 1974, they were debuting a substantially upgraded production\u00a0including the circular video screen that quickly became a signature element of their concerts.<\/p>\n But a little more than a year after the release of The Dark Side of the Moon<\/a><\/em>, they also had new music to share with fans. The British group aired out an early version of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” which previewed 1975’s Wish You Were Here<\/a><\/em> album. “Raving and Drooling<\/a>,” which became “Sheep<\/a>,” was another fresh offering. It was joined later that year by “You’ve Got to Be Crazy<\/a>,” a similar work-in-progress that evolved into “Dogs<\/a>.” Both tracks were heard on stage years before listeners could buy them on 1977’s Animals<\/em><\/a> album.<\/p>\n Listen to Pink Floyd Perform ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ Live at Wembley<\/strong><\/p>\n “Those songs came together in a tiny rehearsal room,” David Gilmour<\/a> recalls now in a new interview with UCR that you can listen to below. “You know, Roger [Waters]<\/a> wanted to divide ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ into two and make it the centerpiece of that next album. “I was really slightly unwilling [to agree to that] at the beginning, but you know, these things are commonplace, these little arguments. But he was right, and we carried on with that. And the other two made it onto Animals<\/em> in due course, a couple of years later.”<\/p>\n READ MORE<\/strong>: How\u00a0to Hear and Watch Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Tour<\/a><\/p>\n Though it’s less common now within the industry, Gilmour continues to find himself taking the music that he writes through a similar process of evolution. The 2007\u00a0“Barn Jam” featuring his current touring band at the time, including longtime Pink Floyd bandmate Richard Wright<\/a>, continues to bear fruit nearly two decades later. Music from that unconventional session helped to form the skeleton<\/a> of the title track for 2024’s Luck and Strange<\/em><\/a> album.<\/p>\n “I store everything like a magpie — I store it away somewhere and and forget about it,” he admits. “Sometimes I’m playing through old files and I find something that I’ve haven’t heard for years. These things always have a way of sparking you off and [get you] thinking again about something that you may not have quite managed to get finished yet. [It can] spark you into a new interest in finding out where they could go and how good they really can be. And, yeah, a lot of time is spent doing that.”<\/p>\n Now on the other side of the short run of tour dates<\/a> for Luck and Strange<\/em>, Gilmour is celebrating the outing with a new live set<\/a>, The Luck and Strange Concerts<\/em>, which is accompanied by a film as well, Live at the Circus Maximus<\/em>. Both will be available Oct. 17 in a variety of packages via his official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch David Gilmour Perform ‘Sorrow’ at Circus Maximus in Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n Listen to David Gilmour on the ‘UCR Podcast’<\/strong><\/p>\n They return to ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘The Wall,’ again and again. But which was best?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow Did Those Early Years with Pink Floyd Inspire David’s Future?<\/h3>\n
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