Songs

Individual tracks as objects rather than as a soundtrack: promo films, official videos, single releases, chart appearances and the occasional oddity. Note what is deliberately absent. Static-image audio uploads were excluded even where official, because a still photograph over a recording is not documentary footage, and unofficial re-uploads of songs were excluded because they are the class of thing that disappears.

Part of Pink Floyd

89 moments in this segment.

1. 1938 - The Empire Pool, Wembley, 1938. The hall on the opening day of the 1938 European Aquatics Championships, still a swimming pool. Pink Floyd played it as a concert hall thirty-six years later.
2. 1967 - Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow (Outtakes). Outtakes from the 1967 promotional filming. 'The Scarecrow' is a Syd Barrett song from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
3. 1967 - Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues (London Line Promo Video, 1967 London). A promotional film made for London Line in 1967. 'Jugband Blues' was Syd Barrett's last song for the band and, read plainly, a song about not being present.
4. 1967 - Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow (Pathé Pictorial, UK, July 1967). Filmed for Pathé Pictorial, the British cinema newsreel, in July 1967, weeks before The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was released.
5. 1967 - Pink Floyd - Chapter 24. From The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967. Syd Barrett took the lyric from the I Ching.
6. 1967 - Pink Floyd - See Emily Play. Released June 1967, produced by Norman Smith. The band's commercial peak of the Barrett era, reaching the UK top ten. It was written for the Games for May concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in May 1967.
7. 1967 - Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne (Official Music Video). Released March 1967, produced by Joe Boyd. Syd Barrett's song about a clothes thief. Some radio outlets refused to play it.
8. 1967 - Pink Floyd - Paintbox (Official Music Video). A Richard Wright song, released as a B-side in 1967.
9. 1967 - Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges. Released November 1967. It failed to chart and was Syd Barrett's last single with the band.
10. 1968 - A Roy Harper concert poster, 1968. A poster for Roy Harper at St Pancras Town Hall in November 1968. Harper sang lead on "Have a Cigar" in 1975 because he happened to be recording in the building; Waters has expressed later regret about handing the vocal away.
11. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Point Me At The Sky (Promo Video). Released December 1968. It failed to chart, and the band did not release another single in Britain for eleven years.
12. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light (‘Surprise Partie’). Filmed for French television in 1968. 'Let There Be More Light' opened A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Pink Floyd album with both Barrett and Gilmour on it.
13. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light (‘Tous En Scène’). Filmed for French television in 1968. 'Let There Be More Light' opened A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Pink Floyd album with both Barrett and Gilmour on it.
14. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light (‘A l’Affiche Du Monde’). Filmed for French television in 1968. 'Let There Be More Light' opened A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Pink Floyd album with both Barrett and Gilmour on it.
15. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Remember A Day ('Samedi et Compagnie'). Filmed for French television in 1968. 'Let There Be More Light' opened A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Pink Floyd album with both Barrett and Gilmour on it.
16. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Intro then Let There Be More Light ('Samedi et Compagnie'). Filmed for French television in 1968. 'Let There Be More Light' opened A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Pink Floyd album with both Barrett and Gilmour on it.
17. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine ('Tienerklanken - Kastival'). Filmed for the Belgian youth programme Tienerklanken in 1968. Continental broadcasters filmed the band far more than British ones did.
18. 1968 - Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice ('Release - Rome Goes Pop'). Filmed in Rome for the programme Release in 1968. 'It Would Be So Nice' was a Richard Wright song and a commercial failure.
19. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Paintbox ('Discorama'). Filmed for the French programme Discorama. 'Paintbox' was a Richard Wright song, released as a B-side in 1967.
20. 1968 - Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (Tienerklanken 1968). Filmed for the Belgian youth programme Tienerklanken in 1968. Continental broadcasters filmed the band far more than British ones did.
21. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Corporal Clegg (Tienerklanken 1968). Filmed for the Belgian youth programme Tienerklanken in 1968. Continental broadcasters filmed the band far more than British ones did.
22. 1968 - Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow (Tienerklanken 1968). Filmed for the Belgian youth programme Tienerklanken in 1968. Continental broadcasters filmed the band far more than British ones did.
23. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (Tienerklanken 1968). Filmed for the Belgian youth programme Tienerklanken in 1968. Continental broadcasters filmed the band far more than British ones did.
24. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light. Opened A Saucerful of Secrets in 1968, the only Pink Floyd album with both Syd Barrett and David Gilmour on it.
25. 1968 - Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Roger Waters' song from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968, with a lyric partly assembled from translated Tang dynasty poetry.
26. 1968 - "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" on Columbia. The label of the 1968 Columbia single carrying "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", credited to Waters, Wright, Gilmour and Mason and produced by Norman Smith. It began life as a B-side and became one of the band's most durable live pieces, built around a long quiet passage and a scream.
27. 1969 - Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict. Roger Waters' solo quarter of the Ummagumma studio disc, 1969, built from treated vocal sounds rather than instruments. The studio half of Ummagumma is the band's most avant-garde official release.
28. 1969 - Pink Floyd - Green Is The Colour (Official Music Video). From Music from the Film More, 1969, the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's film. The band's soundtrack work is an under-covered strand.
29. 1969 - Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows (Official Music Video). Roger Waters' solo quarter of the Ummagumma studio disc, 1969, named for the water meadows outside Cambridge where he, Barrett and Gilmour grew up.
30. 1971 - Pink Floyd, 1971. Waters, Mason, Gilmour and Wright in the Capitol Records trade advertisement and inside cover for Meddle. The album closes with the twenty-three minute "Echoes", the piece the band would build much of the next decade of live staging around.
31. 1972 - Pink Floyd - Wot’s… Uh The Deal (Official Music Video). From Obscured by Clouds, 1972, the second Barbet Schroeder soundtrack, recorded quickly at the Château d'Hérouville.
32. 1973 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) [2023 Remaster] {Full Album}. The Dark Side of the Moon was released in March 1973. It spent 741 weeks on the Billboard 200 between 1973 and 1988, though not continuously, across a span of 813 weeks, and it returned to the chart in 2009 when catalogue titles were readmitted.
33. 1973 - Pink Floyd - Time (Original Single Edit). The single edit of 'Time'. Richard Wright sang lead on it, and would not take another Pink Floyd lead vocal until 'Wearing the Inside Out' twenty one years later.
34. 1973 - Pink Floyd - Money (Official Music Video). From The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973. Dick Parry played the saxophone. He died on 22 May 2026.
35. 1975 - Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (Official Video). From Wish You Were Here, 1975, recorded at Abbey Road in a documented atmosphere of exhaustion following the scale of Dark Side's success.
36. 1975 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Official Video). The title track of Wish You Were Here, 1975. The sleeve was sold in opaque black shrink-wrap so buyers could not see the image, which is itself a statement about absence.
37. 1975 - Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9, New Stereo Mix / Official Video). 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is split across the opening and closing of Wish You Were Here and is about Syd Barrett by the band's own statements. On 5 June 1975, during these sessions, Barrett appeared unannounced at Abbey Road. It was the last time any member of the band saw him.
38. 1975 - Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is split across the opening and closing of Wish You Were Here and is about Syd Barrett by the band's own statements.
39. 1977 - Pink Floyd - Animals 2018 Remix (Full Album). Animals, 1977, remixed in 2018 by James Guthrie.
40. 1977 - Pink Floyd - Sheep. From Animals, 1977, reworked from a live piece called 'Raving and Drooling' that had been played on tour in 1974.
41. 1979 - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (Official Music Video). Released 30 November 1979 and a number one in both Britain and the United States. The children's choir was recorded at Islington Green School; the school and the education authority objected afterwards, and whether the children were properly credited or paid was disputed for decades.
42. 1979 - The Wall on Harvest, side two. A Harvest label from The Wall, listing "Bring the Boys Back Home" with production credited to Roger Waters, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen. Bob Ezrin co-produced the album and pushed hard for the structure it ended up with.
43. 1983 - Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream. From The Final Cut, 1983, with Michael Kamen co-producing and arranging, and Raphael Ravenscroft on saxophone.
44. 1983 - Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. The title track of The Final Cut, 1983, the last Pink Floyd album with Roger Waters.
45. 1983 - Pink Floyd - Not Now John (Official Music Video). From The Final Cut, 1983, dedicated to Waters' father Eric Fletcher Waters, killed at Anzio in 1944. Richard Wright does not play on the album.
46. 1983 - Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home (Official Music Video). From The Final Cut, 1983, named for Waters' father Eric Fletcher Waters. Gilmour has characterised the record as a Waters solo album in all but name; Waters disputes that.
47. 1987 - Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (Official Music Video HD). From A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1987, the first Pink Floyd album made without Roger Waters. Gilmour has spoken about the lyric coming out of his flying lessons.
48. 1990 - Potsdamer Platz after the Wall concert, July 1990. The ground at Potsdamer Platz in the days after Roger Waters staged The Wall there on 21 July 1990, eight months after the Berlin Wall opened. The site was still a cleared strip between the two halves of the city.
49. 1990 - The concert site cleared, Berlin 1990. Waters had said for years he would only perform The Wall again if the Berlin Wall came down. It did, and he did, in front of a crowd estimated at over 300,000.
50. 1990 - Debris at Potsdamer Platz, 1990. The show was built on the death strip itself, an open space that had been mined and patrolled a year earlier. The setting did more of the work than any staging could.
51. 1990 - Remains of the Berlin Wall, August 1990. What was left of the border fortifications near Potsdamer Platz weeks after the concert. The Wall as an album had been written in 1979 about a very different kind of barrier.
52. 1994 - Pink Floyd - A Great Day For Freedom 2022. From The Division Bell, 1994, with lyrics by Polly Samson. The band re-presented it in 2022 alongside their support for Ukraine.
53. 1994 - 25th Anniversary Of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. The Division Bell, 1994, on which Richard Wright was restored to full membership and substantially co-wrote.
54. 1994 - Pink Floyd - Take It Back (Official Music Video HD). From The Division Bell, 1994.
55. 1994 - Pink Floyd - High Hopes (Official Music Video HD). Closes The Division Bell, 1994, with lyrics by Polly Samson and a video shot partly in Cambridge, where Gilmour, Barrett and Waters grew up.
56. 1994 - Pink Floyd - Marooned (Official Music Video HD). An instrumental from The Division Bell, 1994. It won a Grammy, the band's only one.
57. 2006 - "Comfortably Numb", Viking Ship 2006. Roger Waters playing "Comfortably Numb" on the Dark Side of the Moon Live tour at the Vikingskipet hall in Hamar, Norway, 26 June 2006.
58. 2006 - "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". Waters playing "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" in Norway, 26 June 2006. The song dates from 1968 and is the one Waters composition on A Saucerful of Secrets sung by him.
59. 2006 - "Have a Cigar" on tour. Waters playing "Have a Cigar" on the Dark Side of the Moon Live tour, 26 June 2006. The original vocal was sung by Roy Harper, who happened to be recording in the next studio.
60. 2006 - "Time" in Norway, 2006. Waters playing "Time" at Vikingskipet, Hamar, 26 June 2006.
61. 2006 - "Brain Damage" live. Waters playing "Brain Damage" in Norway, 26 June 2006. The closing pair of "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" ends The Dark Side of the Moon.
62. 2006 - "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" live. Waters playing "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" in Norway, 26 June 2006. The 1979 single was the band's only number one in Britain and the United States; the schoolchildren's chorus was recorded at Islington Green School, and their payment and credit have been argued over ever since.
63. 2007 - Wembley Arena, formerly the Empire Pool. As the Empire Pool, this hall hosted the Wembley shows of the 1974 Dark Side tour. It was built for the 1934 Empire Games and takes its arena name only from 1978.
64. 2008 - The Westfalenhalle, Dortmund. Pink Floyd played The Wall here eight times in February 1981. The show was staged only 31 times in total, in Los Angeles, Uniondale, Dortmund and London.
65. 2008 - The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park. Pink Floyd played four nights here in February 1972 under the title Eclipse, performing what became Dark Side of the Moon a full year before the record appeared. The building is now a church.
66. 2011 - Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. Pink Floyd headlined the Knebworth festival on 5 July 1975, arriving with two Spitfires flying over the crowd. They returned to the same grounds for the Silver Clef concert in June 1990.
67. 2014 - Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words (The Endless River). From The Endless River, November 2014, built from the 1993 to 1994 Division Bell sessions and presented as a tribute to Richard Wright, whose playing it is built around. Waters was not involved.
68. 2014 - Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words (Official Music Video HD). From The Endless River, 2014, the last Pink Floyd album, built around Richard Wright's playing from the 1993 to 1994 sessions.
69. 2015 - The clocks projected for "Time". Clock faces projected on the round screen during "Time", David Gilmour on the Rattle That Lock tour, Buenos Aires, 19 December 2015. The bank of chiming clocks that opens the song was recorded by Alan Parsons at Abbey Road as a quadraphonic demonstration before it found its way onto the album.
70. 2016 - Looking down Britannia Row. "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep" were all cut here. Animals took its structure from Orwell but its anger from the industrial disputes of the period.
71. 2016 - The Brighton Dome. The Dark Side of the Moon material had its first public airing at the Brighton Dome on 20 January 1972, when equipment failure stopped the performance partway through.
72. 2017 - The Rainbow Theatre facade. The Eclipse shows were reviewed in the British press before any of the music had been recorded, which is unusual and is part of why the album arrived fully formed.
73. 2017 - "Comfortably Numb" on the Us + Them tour. Roger Waters playing "Comfortably Numb" on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. The song is a Waters lyric over a Gilmour chord sequence, and the two solos on it are Gilmour's most quoted playing. The pair disagree in public about most of their shared history; the song remains a joint credit.
74. 2017 - "Wish You Were Here" live, 2017. Waters performing "Wish You Were Here" on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. The 1975 song is about Syd Barrett, written while the band were in the studio and he was, briefly and unrecognised, in the building.
75. 2017 - "The Great Gig in the Sky" on tour. The wordless vocal of "The Great Gig in the Sky" performed on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. The music is Richard Wright's; the original vocal was improvised at Abbey Road by the session singer Clare Torry, who was later credited as co-writer after going to court.
76. 2017 - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" staged. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. Animals put the pig into the band's vocabulary; Waters has kept it, and kept adding text to it.
77. 2017 - "Dogs" on the Us + Them tour. "Dogs" performed on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. At seventeen minutes it is the longest thing on Animals and the piece that carries most of Gilmour's writing on that record.
78. 2017 - "Time" performed live. "Time" on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. The song opens with a bank of clocks recorded by Alan Parsons at Abbey Road as a quadraphonic demonstration, later folded into the album.
79. 2017 - "Vera" and the wartime material. "Vera" performed on the Us + Them tour, May 2017. The song, and much of The Wall and The Final Cut, comes back to the death of Waters' father Eric at Anzio in February 1944.
80. 2017 - "Bring the Boys Back Home". " on the Us + Them tour, May 2017.
81. 2018-06-20 - Cumberbatch, Pink Floyd attend Hawking service. Stephen Hawking's synthesised voice appears on 'Keep Talking' from The Division Bell, 1994.
82. 2019-05-31 - Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets (Essener Pop & Blues Festival). The four-part instrumental that gave the 1968 album its title. It is the first piece the band built without Syd Barrett's writing.
83. 2019 - The Regent Street Polytechnic memorial. Waters, Mason and Wright met while studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic in London in the early 1960s. The band that became Pink Floyd formed out of that group.
84. 2019 - The Westfalenhallen complex. Dortmund was chosen partly because the hall could take the 160 foot wall and partly because the economics of the show made a long residency in a few cities the only workable form.
85. 2022-04-07 - Pink Floyd - Hey Hey Rise Up (feat. Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox). Released 8 April 2022, the first new Pink Floyd music since 2014. Gilmour and Mason recorded it in support of Ukraine, built around a vocal by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of BoomBox singing the 1914 song 'Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow' in Sofiyskaya Square, Kyiv.
86. 2022-04-22 - Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (Live). Opened The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1967, and stayed in the live set long after Barrett had gone.
87. 2022-04-29 - Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live). An instrumental built around a single chord and a scream, played live throughout 1968 to 1972 and never released as a studio single.
88. 2022-05-06 - Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live). Roger Waters' song from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968, with a lyric partly assembled from translated Tang dynasty poetry.
89. 2022-05-13 - Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets (Live). The four-part instrumental that gave the 1968 album its title. It is the first piece the band built without Syd Barrett's writing.