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When it came to self-promotion, Pink Floyd and their Harvest record label along with Universal Pictures launched a massive promotional campaign for the band's Live at Pompeii concert film in 1972. The movie features Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, directed by Adrian Maben. Although the band are playing a typical live set from this point in their career, the film is notable for having no audience.

The main footage in and around the amphitheatre was filmed over four days in October 1971, using the band's regular touring equipment, including studio-quality 24-track recorders. Additional footage filmed in a Paris television studio made up the original 1972 release. The film quickly became a cult classic and was re-released the following year with additional studio footage from the recording of Dark Side Of The Moon. A staple "Midnight Movie" throughout the 70s, it's still screened at art houses and independent theaters across the world - right up there with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

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Live At Pompeii Radio Advert #2
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Radio Advert #3
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Radio Advert #4
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Radio Advert #5
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Radio Advert #6
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Goofy Ad #1
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Goofy Ad #2
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Goofy Ad #3
~ Pink Floyd ~

Live At Pompeii Goofy Ad #4
~ Pink Floyd ~

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Perhaps no other group used radio commercials to their advantage like Pink Floyd. Here's a sampling of the dozens of Pink Floyd adverts for various projects:

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'Meddle' radio advertisement
~ Pink Floyd ~

'Relics' radio advert #1
~ Pink Floyd ~

'Relics' radio advert #2
~ Pink Floyd ~

Animals Radio Advertisement
~ Pink Floyd ~

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Reaching #45 on Canada's RPM Singles Chart and #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974, "A Dream Goes on Forever" is not so much a rarity as it is a forgotten masterpiece.

Written for the album Todd, it was an expansion of his experimentation on A Wizard, A True Star. Release of the album, originally conceived as (but too long for) a single disc, was delayed by a vinyl shortage caused by the 1973 oil crisis. This was further compounded by reluctance from the record label, Bearsville, to release a new album when his song "Hello It's Me" from Something/Anything? remained strong on the singles charts.

The live version featured here is from his 1978 Back To The Bars outing where he left the band and the synthesizers at home and got intimate with small audiences, armed with only his piano and his unique saloon singer style - oh, and a portfolio of stunning songs like this one.

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A Dream Goes on Forever (from Todd)
~ Todd Rundgren ~

A Dream Goes on Forever (Live)
~ Todd Rundgren ~

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Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey (Esher Demo)
~ The Beatles ~

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
(From The White Album)
~ The Beatles ~

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Mixed Emotions (Alternate Version)
~ The Rolling Stones ~

Mixed Emotions (Extended Master)
~ The Rolling Stones ~

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Big Trouble (Gene Simmons Demo)
~ Van Halen ~

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I actually prefer the early rough version of this gem. The reggae feel and Garth's lilting organ does nothing for this tear-jerker.

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Twilight (Early Alternate Version)
~ The Band ~

Twilight (Master)
~ The Band ~

Twilight (Carter Baron Amphitheatre, Washington DC 8-29-1976)
~ The Band ~

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Put Out The Lights (Gene Simmons Demo)
~ Van Halen ~

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Goodbye (Unreleased Song From White Album Sessions)
~ Paul McCartney ~

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You Make Me Feel (Demo)
~ Cream ~

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Woman In Love (Gene Simmons Demo)
~ Van Halen ~

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Yer Blues (Esher Demo)
~ The Beatles ~

Yer Blues (from The White Album)
~ The Beatles ~

Yer Blues
(Live on Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus TV broadcast)
~ John Lennon & Rolling Stones (aka The Dirty Mac)~

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You & A Promise (Demo)
~ Howie Day ~

You & A Promise (Master)
~ Howie Day ~

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Young and Wild (Cherokee Demo)
~ Van Halen ~

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Weird of Hermiston (Demo)
~ Cream ~

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Here's another example of a song where I enjoy the out-take more than the overly produced released version. They should have left this Dylan classic alone without the choir imho.

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Lay Lady Lay (Alternate Version)
~ The Byrds ~

Lay Lady Lay (Master)
~ The Byrds ~

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The Beatles seventh studio album Revolver, released on 5 August 1966 reached #1 on both the UK and US charts. It was ranked number 1 in the All-Time Top 1000 Albums and number 3 in the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was a departure for The Beatles and their first experiments in Psychedelic Rock. George Harrison had continued to experiment with the sitar and transcendental meditation and John Lennon had done the same with LSD. Above all, producer George Martin continued to work his magic and create the other-worldly sounds The Beatles heard in their heads.

Two songs in particular helped define Psychedelia in that era, John's "Tomorrow Never Knows" from Relvover and George's "Within You, Without You" which didn't appear until the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the following year, however both songs were developed during the Revolver sessions. The real rarity here is George Martin's blending of the two songs. John and George had never directly corroborated and Martin masterfully melded the two concepts into one piece and included bits of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Both Lennon and Harrison nixed the idea, preferring their songs to remain separate entities, but never-the-less Martin's vaulted version finally came off the shelf in late 2007.

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Tomorrow Never Knows (First Take)
~ The Beatles ~

Tomorrow Never Knows (George Martin Master)
~ The Beatles ~

Within You Without You (George Martin Master)
~ The Beatles ~

Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows (George Martin Out-take)
~ The Beatles ~

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On Fire (Gene Simmons Demo)
~ Van Halen ~

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For their final album The Beatles turned to a producer other than George Martin for the first time. "Wall of Sound" legend Phil Spector stepped in as the final authority and by all accounts over-produced the group. Spector's orchestral arrangements and choral backgrounds are truly stunning and resulted in a sting of hits for The Beatles to ride out on, but some Beatles' fans felt Spector's grandiose vision somehow buried the group behind the wall of sound Phil was famous for. So, when three decades later, George Martin restored the original Abbey Road sessions to their pre-Spector pretentiousness fans around the world finally had a brand new old album. Titled simply Let It Be - Naked all vestiges of Spector's medaling were stripped away and once again The Beatles plus fifth Beatle Billy Preston came shinning through.

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Let It Be (Phil Spector Mix)
~ The Beatles ~

Let It Be (Naked)
~ The Beatles ~

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This song was originally released as the B-side of their final single "Let It Be" in 1970. It was recorded in four separate sessions beginning with three in May and June 1967, and one in 1969. The song is a music hall comedy number. Lennon came up with the lyric/title after seeing a phone book. He said: "That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul. I was waiting for him in his house, and I saw the phone book was on the piano with 'You know the name, look up the number.' That was like a logo, and I just changed it."

McCartney has been quoted as saying it is probably my favorite Beatle track! It's so insane. All the memories ... I mean, what would you do if a guy like John Lennon turned up at the studio and said, 'I've got a new song'. I said, 'What's the words?' and he replied 'You know my name look up the number'. I asked, 'What's the rest of it?' 'No, no other words, those are the words. And I want to do it like a mantra!"

All four Beatles participated in the first three recording sessions on 17 May, 7 and 8 June 1967. A saxophone part was recorded on 8 June which was played by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones.

The song was left unreleased and untouched until 30 April 1969 when Lennon and McCartney laid down all the vocal tracks and added additional sound effects with the help of Mal Evans. George Harrison and Ringo Starr did not participate in this last session. Nick Webb, second engineer on the 30 April session described it this way: " John and Paul weren't always getting along that well at the time, but for this song they went out on the studio floor and sang together around one microphone. Even at this time I was thinking 'What are they doing with this old four-track tape, recording these funny bits onto this quaint song?' But it was a fun track to do."

Despite the fun sessions described by McCartney and Webb, the song was not released for another year. Eventually released as a Beatles song, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was nearly released as the A-side of a Plastic Ono Band single. Lennon was determined to have this song released, and he arranged for Apple to issue the unorthodox songs as a Plastic Ono Band single. On 26 November 1969, four months after Jones drowned in his swimming pool, Lennon edited "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", reducing the length from 6:08 to 4:19, a more suitable length for a single. The Plastic Ono Band single was given an Apple catalogue number (Apples 1002) and British release date of 5 December 1969.

Apple issued a press release, describing the record as Lennon and Yoko Ono singing and backed by "many of the greatest show business names of today" which the press believed was a thinly disguised reference to the Beatles. The record was cancelled before it was issued.

Three months later, the song was released as the B-side to The Beatles' single, "Let It Be." The original Plastic Ono Band single catalogue number is visible on the 45 RMP disc, though scratched out, in the runout groove of the original British pressings of the "Let It Be" single.



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You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
~ The Beatles ~

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