![]() ![]() It's one of the few songs Wright has ever done for Pink Floyd and it's actually pretty fine. "Summer 68" is a catchy, fast and happy pop tune written and sung by Richard Wright, the band's keyboard player. The words are quite good, but Roger Waters would have to wait until Dark Side of the Moon before he would write an accomplished set of lyrics. "If" is a quiet poem sung to a mellow guitar melody. ![]() The rest of the album is totally different especially the tracks "If" and "Summer 68," which contrast greatly with the first composition by being rather wimpy pop tunes. It's nice, that the band tried to put orchestra together with their own music, but I think this wasn't the ideal outcome. I like some of the bluesy parts of AHM, but the song is way too long and the title melody is pretty boring. The song ends with reappearance of the title melody that goes on until the end. These sounds are really superb and one wonders where they got such samples in the year 1970! This part of the song nods to all those who criticized the band for concentrating on spaced out music rather than their bluesy roots, but at least this noodling is interesting. When the song reaches its second half, a cacophony of some really weird sounds comes rolling in and suddenly the listener is thrown into another world. The orchestra is soon replaced by the band themselves, playing stripped down mellow blues with a cool ensemble of vocalists joining into the mix. The song starts with a loud orchestral melody that sounds as if it were ripped off from some kind of spaghetti western or a cold war drama. If you are using an adblocker you will not see the link.The first track just happens to be the 23-minute epic title track, which literally takes up the entire first half of the whole album! The name of the track, which was randomly picked by Roger Waters, is taken from a newspaper article about a woman who got a pacemaker to stimulate her heartbeat. As an Amazon Associate LFF earns from qualifying purchases. ![]() Thank you for supporting Live for Films (LFF) when you order using the link below. Win a Squaring The Circle bundle – Pink Floyd Albums and a Through The Prism Book To be in with a chance to win, simply answer the following question. The bundle is comprised of 3 x Pink Floyd vinyl records – Dark Side of the Moon, Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here – 1 x Through The Prism book. We have got a music bundle up for grabs to help promote the film. The film features brand new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more. They never played a note, but they changed music. They did great things they did silly things. During this period, record companies didn’t dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like – Storm and Po did. They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularized music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom time of the seventies. Posted by Phil on in All, Competition, documentary, Film, News | 2 commentsĬelebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary Squaring The Circle tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. ![]()
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