BBC Omnibus Music Documentary on Pink Floyd 1994 + finale of Live Earls Court Concert in October.
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- More of my old VHS tape recordings; hence only VHS quality. BBC Omnibus music documentary around time of The Division Bell album includes interviews with key players in the band's history up to this time. The documentary was followed on BBC by the full concert, but largely due to Copyright restrictions, I have uploaded just the end of the concert with tracks from The Wall. Hey You, Comfortably Numb, and Run. Some nostalgic adverts at the end, plus the National Anthem that always used to be played at the end of the broadcasting day followed by the BBC Test Card :-)
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I travelled down from Liverpool with my mates to go to Earls Court in London October 1994 for The Pulse Concert...I was sitting in the top balcony on the left hand side looking towards the stage and even now 30years on/later it still sends shivers down my spine and puts a huge smile on my face that I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT EVER MUSICALLY AND VISUALLY 🦻👀🤘...Every single song from opening of Set1 with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" to the Encore of "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" were a visual and musical MASTERPIECE...!! This Concert will be Remembered till the End of Time just like Pink Floyd's music will be...MIND-BLOWING PRODUCTION BY MUSICAL GENIUSES..Words don't do it justice so I'm so lucky I got to be there on one of the 10nights at Earls Court were Pink Floyd finished the Division Bell World Tour 🌎 💙
Ditto; Friday 14th October 1994.
I done exactly the same, a coach from outside the royal court, was on my own though none of mates came with me oh how they regretted that when i got home and couldn’t shut up about it, then seeing it on the telly all nearly crying, and here i am 48 years old and still tell people how silly it was, I’ve seen loads of concerts but that was something else, think it was 14 nights wasn’t it? and a few days before i went one of the seating areas collapsed i was shitting myself in case the rest got cancelled thankfully they didn’t, on the night one of these days was on fire it was the best of the night for me oh and the second solo from `CN
@MiniShowProductions 🤪 5 of us drove down in a car with a flask of mushy tea to drink once got into London so we were all tripping our heads off 😳😵💫🥴..So each lazer was being tripled, + all laughing our heads off everything being heightened ten-fold and all the effects felt like we on another planet 😆 lol
@@martincummings7886 hahah the coach i got on i was para to fuck thinking if i cud av a J got on it all the curtains got closed an it was a party all the way ther no mushy juice tho :( lol
I got to see them in the 80s on the momentary lapse of reason tour......friggin awesome
Tomorrow I will start searching… Somewhere in the attic I have the original recording on VHS tape of the BBC broadcast that night. I have played this tape over and over again. And now I cry over my youth, especially when David plays his second solo in Comfortably Numb…
It might not comfort you in any way, but I also cry over my youth listening to PF. I feel like I discovered them yesterday. In fact, I did over 30 years ago, in secondary school. And I'll be 50 next year.
@@marcinbreczko4777 Let's all put our heads together and build a time machine, I'm sick of this "woke" world. I'd go back in time in a heartbeat. 😞
I cry when I think about the real Paul whom I loved. Sad that he was replaced with Billy.
I've been looking for this documentary for years. It has always stayed in my memory. Thank you!
I was at the concert at Earls Court ( I think it was the first night) when, unfortunately, just as the house lights went down, a rumble that sounded like thunder was heard. I was on the first floor and like many others thought it was a sound effect to launch the evening. Then we could hear shouting and screaming and quickly the news was that the temporary seating on the ground floor at the back had collapsed. Within minutes Harvey Goldsmith came on stage, announced what had happened and told everyone to leave the building and informed us that another concert would be scheduled. Thankfully no one was killed but lots of walking wounded and several taken to hospital. I was able to go the following week and it is still one of the finest gigs I have ever been to. The finale (Run like Hell) was mind blowing.
I went the day after that happened. We listened to radio 1 all day waiting for the announcement of whether the concert would still happen
@simonm7133 In a strange way that got me tickets that seating collapsing because people couldn't get to the rearranged concert the following week and the tickets for the 10nights had sold out in hours and I couldn't get any..Well due to the rearranged I got 5 tickets for me and my mates from a Tour/Ticket selling company rung me up asking me could I make it the following week to travel down from Liverpool to Earls Court as 5 tickets had been given back as they were unable to re-attend so was lucky the seating collapsed cos I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT OF ALL TIME
I was there too, in the stand next to the one that collapsed. Always remember one guy standing up in the wreckage with a pint in each hand, don't think he'd spilt a drop. Great night at the rearranged gig.
@@andygroves1296 Wow. You had a lucky escape. I bet the guy with the pint dined out on that story for years!
February 24th , 1980, Long Island.
I was directly.across from David ,
ON TOP OF THE WALL. UNFORGETABLE 😊
Comfortably numb has to be my favourite pink Floyd track EVER.
When I was nineteen I first heard pink floyd I'm 74 years young now young I was but I felt then this band is going to be incredibly popular and huge for me once you listen to anything from pink floyd your hooked the lyrics the combination of top draw musicians along with the synchronised lighting and of course back up singers and for me one of the more important qualities the common down to earth honest approach of all the band members you can see how much they enjoy what they do it's irresistible and infectious it rare for me for a day to go by without a good dose of my favourite rock band pink Floyd
Thank you for posting this. This program, and particularly the breakdown of the intro to SOYCD is the defining moment when my eyes were opened to their music and legacy. I’ve wanted to see this again for 30 years
I witnessed Pink Floyd live in Chicago in 1971 for the first time. This was the first time I ever heard echoes played live. Never hearing it before I was enthralled and very happy echoes is a piece of music it still runs through my veins forevermore. Pink Floyd is embedded in the souls in the minds of the onions
. Only a handful of rock bands ever could accomplish this kind of attention from so many. Listening to echoes and another tune called the narrow way Hertz 1 2 and 3 from Uma Guma in the instrumentals from obscured by clouds
. Honestly still give me chills to hear it I love it so much. Pink Floyd instrumentals are still the best particularly when listened to through a 5.1 surround sound system or better.
Hail hail rock and roll 🤗
Guy Pratt, absolute lengend.
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Guy who?? 😂
One of my fave bassist, so low-key. His work on the Delicate Sound of Thunder/MLoR tour was phenomenal.
Saw them at Live 8. Unbelievable sound, just the band on stage, amazing foh sound, you could hear every plectrum stroke on the bass. That click.
I also had this taped on video back in the day. Been years since I've seen it! Thanks for the upload!
Comfortably numb has the greatest guitar solo in rock history,
I flew from Australia just for this concert, i'm 70 yrs young. and have been a Floydy for at least 50 of those. i taught myself to play a guitar after listening to Wish you were here. a life changing experience 😁
Les Claypool's cover of Animals is worth checking out. I took my girlfriend to see The Wall at the cinema. Neither of us could speak for the rest of the night after. I love the music, some of it has been the emotional soundtrack of my life.
@daleskidmore1685 In my opinion, Animals is as great an album as it two predecessors. I will look up Les Claypool. IMHO Pink Floyd went downhill after Animals, with too much dominance of Roger Water before they split up. Having said that, the rest of the band saved the Wall by creating some great music behind his lyrics and what turned out to be a hit single. Singles not being Pink Floyd's concern or style in the 70s.
Animals is my favourite Floyd album with all 4 band members all contributing amazing solo's from Roger's incitful and almost physcic lyrics predicting the Future (And even more RELEVANT now than in 1977 the way the World has become), Gilmour's Incredible Lead and Bass Guitar playing solo's, Rick's Amazing Keyboard parts of pure emotion and creativity and keeping it all together Nick's drumming and precussion..!! And for imo to pick a favourite Floyd album is no mean feat with all their MASTERPIECES...PS Donald Trump is 2 for 1 being a PIG 🐖and a DOG 🐕
@@PaulYoung99s Brick in the Wall was a surprise release as a single, as you rightly say. It was a perfect pop song. Dark Side and The Wall cast a bit of a shadow over most of Floyd's work in just the same way as Sgt. Pepper and Let it Be do The Beatles.
@daleskidmore1685 I can't think of the right word, but one thing I like about Animals is that it is more "Rock" like in places.
This is 'top draw' my friend. Thank you very much.
*drawer
To say that Roger's career had not flourished since he left the band, not sure that's fair. What a shame that they can't get along better, god only knows what would have come of that... Their lamentations for Syd produced some of the most profound musical empatheticals ever written, we all feel that angst in Roger's voice, and the ethereal uplift in Gilmore... what a combination. If it wasn't for the loss of Syd, none of that would have reached our ears, our souls. Syd did contribute, if only to give the band that ability to reach into the human condition and pull that music out of the aether.
Pink Floyd in both of their incarnations are immortal. Waters and his band In the Flesh are excellent as was Gilmour's Floyd in Pulse. Both brilliant.
saw an interview with Alan Parsons the other day he said has been involved with remastering the Earls Court show that is shown in part at the end of this video but did not say when coming out yet
I still have my unused ticket after contracting pneumonia and couldn't attend the concert....when I look at the ticket I think what I have missed
I have that BBC broadcast on tape somewhere and I much prefer it to the commercial releases as those have had any duff notes overdubbed. There weren't that many as I remember, but they were part of the experience and I wish they had been left, especially in the legendary Comfortably Numb solo. The occasional duff note makes David less God-like :)
I was at the concert on October 14th 1994, almost 30 years ago.
i was at the final night at earls court ... amazing dose not do it justice
I’m glad The Final Cut was released. It’s a great record
@sonnyboy5566 Not my personal favourite. I think the overall package went downhill somewhat when it was too dominated by Roger Waters, although there's no doubt he was probably the key creative force in Pink Floyd.
The Wall may portray itself as a very depressing album, yet upon closer inspection, it paves the way for that life which is beyond music. To get that Ego onto a recording and have it resonate is the alert to the misidentification that is Ego!
Great, really enjoyed this, amazing how time goes by. Obscured by Clouds appeared to be missing?
Big roger fan, but it always seemed he was scrambling for control of his life as a whole. When he gained control of the band as a whole, it all fell apart. Gilmour, and to a lesser extent, Wright contributed just as heavily in the glory years and Roger has always had a hard time admiting this.
Excellent, thanks for sharing! 👍
I keep wondering if the BBC 1 broadcast concert is any different from the Premiere broadcast from germany or Pay per view broadcast from US. The Premiere showing had some different angles from the Pay per view showing, so I'm hoping this version has differences. I have a recording from the BBC 1 radio broadcast and at the end of One of These Days you can hear gilmour make an announcement for a second before it cut to the second half. Did the stage lights come on at the end of OOTD in this bbc 1 broadcast?
I've used some of this audio, on my "Floyd Boots" video. 🙂😉🙂
Wow. Thank you for sharing!
The Floyd definitely the most professional and expensive band that I'm into one of my favourites 😊😊
I’m so glad that my favorite parts of Pink Floyd mirror the same opinions of David Gilmour and Rick Wright. I love the music from Meddle to Animals. Then Waters went on his ego trip. I was so glad to hear the Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. Pink Floyd moved on without Waters and still made great music. Meanwhile, Waters struggled with his solo career. I guess he found out that the whole was greater than the parts and he wasn’t THE REASON that Pink Floyd succeeded.
@KH6775 I agree to a point, but it's a bit more nuanced. Roger Waters' contribution to Pink Floyd was crucial. He provided an edgy creativeness that explored new areas. The rest of the band without him later largely stuck in the 1970s groove, which is a magical sound but not creating anything spectacularly original as was the case with Pink Floyd in the 1960s and 70s. Roger's music was also much more personal and edgy, so less commercial than sticking to the style of Pink Floyd in the 70s that became mainstream but was new at the time. Rogers style is less easy to listen to because of its edginess and, as a result, not so commercial. He has written some good solo songs too. This is very emotional thought-provoking and great music. th-cam.com/video/YRWRRBX3TB0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j0MHaZPQgrYohkwB
I ended up seeing Pink Floyd 9 times- 7 in Philadelphia
June 1975- Spectrum arena
June 1977 Spectrum
Sept 11, 1987 JFK stadium
Outdoor, threatened rain
August 1988- Vet stadium
August 1988 Original GIANTS stadium ( excellent!)
1994
JUNE 2, 3, 4 , 1994 Vet Stadium Pulse tour
July 16, 1994 last Pink Floyd show for me and last Floyd performance in the US...
DAVID GILMORE:
1984 Tower theater solo tour for first 2 Solo DG albums.
2016 MSG/ NYC ( last row our stage left- ALL the way up last row....
Rodger: June 2007.
Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia
( same location as old JFK stadium....
JUNE 2007
First time I'm hearing them being referred to as 'The' Pink Floyd.
I’m pretty sure they were The Pink Floyd during Syd’s era !
@@martinbirch632I think many bands tried to move away from the ‘The’ part, back in the day (‘Eagles’ springs to mind but, there were many others). I think a debate occasionally surfaces over whether it’s ‘DSOM’ or ‘The DSOM’, as well!🤔😉✌️
@@martinbirch632 That is correct.
The final cut is better than anything David has written outside of Pink Floyd. And Marooned while talking AMLOR?
And its....
HIGH TIME,...CYMBALINE...
PLZ WAKE ME
I miss the BBC test card at the end and that continual tone...
@nick28476 The time it took the test card to appear was actually a little bit longer than the upload. I cut a bit of time out, thinking people might stop playing believing they had got to the end of the recording and miss it!
Ahh douglas adams. Absolutely love him
Wow man❤
I think people who hate Pink Floyd just don’t get Pink Floyd. They’re definitely a band u need to listen to in the right sequence to truly appreciate. In fact, i think it’s best to start with the wall and work ur way back to dark side and wuwhere ❤
@krismckusick332 There music you listen to deeply; not music you hop around to. Some people only relate to the latter.
Im pretty sure I remember the Pink Floyd Earls Court Gig was on the BBC News because of a Seating Area had collapsed?
@Sonny-lx7je Yes, somebody else commented on that, too.
This version of Comfortably numb is not on the DVD or Blu-ray. Why ? 🤷♂️
@Mattiroxx That's very interesting. I have been wondering how different, if at all, the Pulse DVD was from the TV broadcast I recorded this from. TH-cam automatic copyright protection trimmed large parts of the full concert out but didn't touch the finale I uploaded here, including Comfortably Numb. Could it be because it's not the same as the Pulse DVD version? Probably not the reason for no TH-cam trimming out, but this did cross my mind.
Meddle
interesting admission of chart rigging there about the first big single... wow
I went to this gig
Why does it have be so loud?
Was there . August 18. Think it was the last show
enjoyed that until the end where it seemed a bit under researched! Wasnt there a court case in the late 80s involving Waters not wanting the other lads to use the PinkFloyd name etc.
@adamlock1285 I think it took the form of a bit of a promotion for their new tour as Pink Floyd without Roger Waters. They probably didn't want to, or maybe, couldn't talk about the things you mentioned.
@@PaulYoung99s Yes maybe so
animals are the best album
I surprised my then wife with tickets for the Earls Court gig, she sadi no thanks, not going in spite of her knowing they were my fav band. Gave the tickets to our friends John and Cheryl and got divorced three years later. #goodolddays
@IndaloMan Clearly, you weren't suited for each other :-)
Would never speak again
You should have divorced 3 mins after she turned those tickets down 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you should have went with a true buddy
We ‘hyped it a bit with a gentleman whose name I wouldn’t dream of revealing’🤔 … rather suggesting, perhaps, a (1) household name (2) disgraced household name or (3) someone who went onto bigger things, either at the BBC or elsewhere?
Roger said he wanted to build the wall so the others said then what he said nothing as in building it early then just leaving it for the whole show.
@turokforever007 Apparently Roger was annoyed when the audience seemed to be demanding what to hear and not listening to what he wanted to play. So he conceptual wanted to create a wall so he could play his music without being diverted by audience demands, I think. The wall became to represent all sorts of different barriers for different people, including the Berlin wall and its destruction, which gave it special meaning in Germany and the West.
do you use any software to clean it up?
@freenando75 No. For simplicity, I used the "dubbing" from VCR to DVD facility on my old VCR-DVD combo machine and then copied the DVD onto my PC hard disk from my PC DVD. I think the later VCRs may have recorded better than earlier ones. Also, I only played the tape a few times ever, and it had been stored well on my shelves in my living room all its life. I have looked at AI upscalimg tools, but in my experience, they have created an artificial look, and from an accuracy and nostalgic point of view I rather prefer the idea of presenting the video as it originally looked. The only issue I have had is that after uploading the video to TH-cam, the audio has sometimes gone a little out of sync. Not sure why this happens? PS Having given further thought, I was an early adopter of Satellite TV. A lot of VHS recordings are from terrestial TV in the UK that's PAL quality. Satellite TV was transmitted in higher quality.
@@PaulYoung99s if the container is h264 mp4 or mov, there is no reason for out of sync.. never the less, when i export ( using davinci resolve) i allways use the audio option to normalise audio using the youtube preset and linear pcm audio (not mp3) at 44khz
@@freenando75Thank you for your help Will make a note for the future.
"Exert" (in the title) ??
You're doing it wrong, dude.
@gavinvalentino6002 Thanks, I will change it within the 100 characters allowed.
Thank heavens Roger declined ,,,
The dweeps spouting off is great and reinforces
Rogers greatness,,,
@garypcadogan8193 I liken it to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John gave the Beatles edgy creativeness, whilst Paul added great melody and beauty. Roger gave Pink Floyd an edgy creativeness, the rest of the band added creative musicality and a great sound. Without Roger, Pink Floyd continued with a great sound, but it stuck in a groove. At the same time, Roger by himself was too self-involved and was hard to listen too.
@@PaulYoung99s
Really, listening to these contradicting their own statements reminds me of Yoko Ono
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very poor doc compared to others - not to have a go at the poster
It was done in the context of their comeback after the split with Roger Waters and felt to me like a like a backgrounder for their first work as the new Pink Floyd without Roger Waters and maybe an introduction to a younger/newer audience rather than an in depth detailed historical documentary.
1:04:50 - at the end, i legit thought that little girl was holding a gun to that puppet's head at first! who else sees that? 🤔😜
Gilmore.
Is.
God.
The early crap would be laughed at today to be honest, but everybody has to start somewhere.
@chloesdad1000 Actually, in my opinion, Pink Floyd's early more experimental stuff was essential to developing their later more mainstream sound, amongst my all time favourite songs are "Set the controls to the heart of the sun" Be careful with that Axe Eugence" masterpieces with amazing drama and emotion. Probably, some would be laughed at by a modern audience with more focus on Pop than leading edge experimental music (at the time)
Really? See Emily Play is absolute perfection in a 3 minute pop song. Lots of waffle after Piper till we get to Meddle, but there gems scattered through all those early records. Remember A Day?
1994? Ha! 1974, now you're talking. Dark Side, BCWTAE, Echoes et al. 18 I was.
@petermorris9818 I think Meddle was one of their best albums. My mother had an 8 track player with Meddle cartridge in her MGB. I was about 9 when I first heard and I became a Pink Floyd fan from them on :-)
@@PaulYoung99s agreed! I still love it
My old next door neighbour was an old hippy. One of his jobs was as a "journalist" with "OZ" magazine. He said he used to go to UFO, and saw The Pink Floyd every weekend for months. He was also at Led Zeppelin's first UK show.......He said they were shit..... Zeppelin that is.
@indigohammer5732 Mid-sixties must have been an interesting time to be a teenager for many, such a big new youth culture, swinging London, etc.. I was only 6 in 1966, so I was a bit too young to absorb it all, but I can remember the fashion and the bright colours. Led Zeppelin is another of my favourite groups, and their first album remains one of my favourite. Maybe your friend just didn't like their music genre. Jimmy Page was already a well-known session musician and had been in the Yardbirds and the others were all great musicians too.
I like The Floyd and saw them once in concert, which was fun. They aren't Genesis though who are probably the best band in the world, on album and on stage where they just blew my mind.
Genesis the best band in the world?? Guess you've never heard of a group called The Beatles.
Im with You.
@@stephenstone8480Genesis had more musical talent live then any live Beatles performances.
@@johnroberthines7811 Yeah, right...John Lennon alone had more talent than all the Genesis members put together...
@@stephenstone8480 Inconveniently for you, John Lennon was actually a big fan of Genesis in the early '70s
Talk about trial and error haha😂😂😂. The masters no doubt and what they evolved into was pretty good to say the least .
I like floyd without Roger. Like Pink Floyd when Gimore took over.
@Andre_Ons_Marshall I can understand that. Pink Floyd was originally more "experimental" and was creating new sounds. Under Gilmore, they stuck more to the mainstream in the manificent groove of the Dark Side era ,but nothing new or more "challenging"
after ROGER Pink Floyd was and is done....Dave ruined it after the final cut
On Roger Waters "His solo career has not flourished' - they were wrong there!
Absolutely my thoughts too. He's pretty much the biggest act in the world to go see live, and has been for the last 20 years or so. His last 2 tours even (''Us And Them'' and ''This Is Not A Drill' ) have sold out all around the world, in huge stadiums and with a huge stage show. People only need search on TH-cam for footage and they'll see how well he's doing...still going strong at over 80 years old, and respected by the vast majority of people due to his integrity, honour, bravery and compassion for those whose voices need to heard..due to war crimes and genocide. Roger is an absolute legend !
@@Spirit-Of-The-Age Spot on!
After Roger left, they should have renamed the band Fake Floyd.
That's plain stupid and wrong. I have been a fan since DSOM, I was 13, and love pretty much everything the've done because there is a very special alchemy when they all play together. For me the clinching point is this, none of the work any of them have done seperately or in the post Roger period comes anywhere near the heights they reached together, I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
And the 20mins ion albums sold say different
@@darrenshaw4305 There's no accounting for taste...or lack thereof...Madonna, The Backstreet Boys, and Michael Bolton have all sold millions of records, too...
i recorded this one of my fav docos