In what’s turning into an annual custom, Pink Floyd quietly uploaded 18 Darkish Aspect of the Moon-era live shows onto streaming providers just lately, in addition to a set of “different tracks” from their legendary 1973 LP.

In Dec. 2021, Pink Floyd equally dumped a dozen unreleased live shows, spanning from 1970 to 1972, on streaming providers with none fanfare; artists like Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan have employed this tactic prior to now to be able to lengthen the rights of the recordings.

In 2013, a rep for Sony defined Dylan’s launch of uncirculated music by telling Rolling Stone, “The copyright regulation in Europe was just lately prolonged from 50 to 70 years for all the things recorded in 1963 and past. With all the things earlier than that, there’s a brand new ‘Use It or Lose It’ provision. It principally stated, ‘In the event you haven’t used the recordings within the first 50 years, you aren’t going to get any extra.’” 

The 18 live shows — none of which have been launched in any official capability — span from Jan. 23, 1972 to Dec. 9, 1972, with Pink Floyd workshopping, fine-tuning after which perfecting The Darkish Aspect of the Moon in its entirety at each present forward of its March 1973 launch. Pink Floyd’s total four-night stand at London’s Rainbow Theatre from Feb. 17 to twenty, 1972 can also be out there for streaming.

The five-track bonus assortment, titled merely “Various Tracks 1972,” options trance remixes and “extremely uncommon” different variations of 5 of Darkish Aspect’s songs, together with a tough demo of “On the Run.”

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Just like the 2021 live performance dump, the entire newly uploaded recordings with equally generic paintings are copyrighted to Pink Floyd Music Ltd., suggesting these are official releases from the band. Nevertheless, with the copyright seemingly reestablished, the live shows uploaded within the 2021 launch have since been faraway from streaming providers, which suggests the 2022 slate is probably going not lengthy for the digital world.

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Right here’s the 18 stay albums Pink Floyd quietly added to streaming providers:

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Reside at Southampton Guildhall, UK, 23 January 1972
Reside at Carnegie Corridor, New York, 5 Feb 1972
Reside on the Rainbow Theatre, London 17 February 1972
Reside on the Rainbow Theatre, London 18 Feb 1972
Reside on the Rainbow Theatre, London 19 Feb 1972
Reside on the Rainbow Theatre, London 20 Feb 1972
Reside on the Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan, 3 Mar 1972
Reside at Osaka Pageant Corridor, Japan, 8 Mar 1972
Reside at Nakajima Sports activities Centre, Sapporo, Japan, 13 Mar 1972
Reside at Chicago Auditorium Theatre, USA, 28 April 1972
Reside on the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, 18 Could 1972
Reside on the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 22 Sept 1972
Reside on the Empire Pool, Wembley, London, 21 Oct 1972
Reside at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany, 12 Nov 1972
Reside on the Palais des Sports activities, Poitiers, France 29 Nov 1972
Reside on the Palais des Sports activities de L’Ile de la Jatte, Saint Ouen, France, 1 Dec 1972
Reside on the Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium, 5 Dec 1972
Reside at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 9 Dec 72

Various Tracks 1972



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