Pink Floyd’s Unreleased Moon Jam Post by: Eddie Ruckus - Rockin' Blogger 24 July, 2009 - 11:50 AM

As old people everywhere this week remembered where they were when man first walked on the moon, Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour has revealed the story behind one of his former band’s rarest pieces of music, “Moonhead”.

Bizarrely, the BBC invited the psychedelic rockers into their studios 40 years ago this week to provide a live soundtrack to the pictures being beamed back from the moon.

“We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing,” Gilmour wrote this week in UK newspaper, The Guardian. “It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

“The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night program felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. [Certainly is – listen above!]

“I’ve never forgotten ‘Moonhead’, though. After all, it’s not hard to remember exactly where I was.

“It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn’t seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays.” [Ya reckon?]

So, like, woah man! What do you think of “Moonhead”?

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• Greg King says

  Sounds a lot like the film score they did for a film called MORE. If you like this stuff it's well worth the effort to find the CD.

  Posted Monday 27 July, 2009 6:42 PM