![]() ![]() It appears that the Pink Floyd footage was not included in the movie but spectators report that Atom Heart Mother was part of the set that was recorded. This was the end leg of the Medicine Ball Caravan tour organised by Warner Brothers, which was later made into a film of the same name. Pink Floyd also appeared at a free festival in Canterbury on August 31, which was filmed. Partly due to the difficulties of finding and hiring local orchestras and choirs, the band often played what is referred to as the "small band" version of the song when they performed it live. ![]() ![]() The song officially debuted at the Bath Festival, Somerset England on 27 June 1970 under the title " The Amazing Pudding" (later the name of a Pink Floyd fanzine) and for the first time with orchestra and choir accompaniment.Īnnounced as " The Atom Heart Mother" by legendary British broadcaster John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show "Peel's Sunday Concert" on 16 July 1970, a name suggested by him to the band, it was also announced as "The Atomic Heart Mother" two days later at the Hyde Park free concert. This is the first time they performed a song live in an unfinished form as a work in progress, something they continued to do until 1975. At this point, it had no orchestra or choir accompaniment. On 17 January 1970, the band began performing a then untitled instrumental piece, which would eventually become the title track to their next album Atom Heart Mother. The song " Embryo" was also a part of the live repertoire around this time, but was never to appear on a studio album until the compilation album Works. Lacking only the lyrics, it is identical to the final song and is the earliest part of the seminal album to have been performed live. This was the musical basis for " Us and Them", from their The Dark Side of the Moon album. Early in 1970, Pink Floyd performed at gigs a piece from their film soundtrack for Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point referred to as "The Violent Sequence". ![]()
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