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"Any Colour You Like" is the eighth track [nb 1] on The Dark Side of the Moon, [2] [3] English rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album. It is an instrumental written by David Gilmour , Richard Wright and Nick Mason .
Pink Floyd are an English rock band who recorded material for fifteen studio albums, three soundtrack albums, three live albums, eight compilation albums, four box sets, as well as material that, to this day, remains unreleased during their five decade career. There are currently 222 songs on this list.
On Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, the song has a different ending: instead of segueing into what would be the next track on The Dark Side of the Moon ("Any Colour You Like"), engineer and Floyd collaborator James Guthrie gave the song a cold ending, before adding a backwards piano note that would lead into the collection's next track ...
Similar to the 1973 planetarium showcase, the album played in planetariums, globally, throughout March 2023. [7] [6]During the week leading up to the box set's release a series of short videos were released on the Pink Floyd YouTube channel entitled 50 Years in a Heartbeat – the Making of The Dark Side of the Moon which include archival footage of the band speaking about the album and new ...
A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing their first two albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets in a new gatefold sleeve. The album was released in December 1973 by Harvest and Capitol in the United States and the following month in the United Kingdom by Harvest and EMI.
"See Emily Play" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released as their second single on 16 June 1967 on the Columbia label. [7] Written by original frontman Syd Barrett, it was released as a non-album single, but appeared as the opening track of Pink Floyd, the US edition of the band's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967).
The song's lyrics begin with "Last night I had too much to drink / Sitting in a club with so many fools", and feature an ambivalent chorus: "I open the door to an empty room / Then I forget". The song is the first of many Pink Floyd songs to prominently feature an E minor added ninth chord . [ 5 ]
Songs such as "Green is the Colour" were acoustic folk ballads, a genre not often explored by the group. [12] Mason's wife Lindy played penny whistle on the track. [ 15 ] The album also contains hard rock , such as " The Nile Song " and "Ibiza Bar", [ 12 ] [ 16 ] as well as several instrumental tracks such as "Quicksilver" and "Main Theme ...