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Pink Floyd are revisiting their latest catalogue title with a standalone issue of a celebrated live bootleg on new formats – and they’re also planning a unique new compilation.
The group’s Wish You Were Here 50 was packed with extras, most notably Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975. This performance, featuring key selections from the 1975 album as well as a full performance of the group’s 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon, was taped by legendary bootlegger Mike Millard and restored for official release by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. The somewhat confusing formats of the physical and digital packaging meant it was only available on a Blu-ray disc as part of a larger box set, or to stream and download. Finally, Sony Music will release two special physical versions of the album: a 4LP edition available at participating indie retailers on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 18), followed by a 2CD general release a week later, on April 24. (The 2CD was originally planned to come out as an “RSD First” title on the 18th.) These releases will give all Pink Floyd collectors a chance to own this set in any or all the current formats most listeners enjoy music.
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Wilson is also involved in a new, unusual compilation coming out on CD, LP and digital on June 5. 8-Tracks is, as one might guess, an eight-track condensed overview of Pink Floyd’s ’70s material (save for 1970’s Atom Heart Mother). It includes singles “One of These Days” (from 1971’s Meddle), “Money” (from The Dark Side of the Moon) and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” and “Comfortably Numb” (from 1979’s double album The Wall), as well as Dark Side album cut “Time” and Wish You Were Here‘s title track. Honoring the format this collection is named after, 8-Tracks will be sequenced in two continuous programs edited by Steven Wilson, with sections from the original multitrack tapes utilized to foster the transitions between songs. Additionally, closing track “Pigs on the Wing” (from 1977’s Animals) will be heard in a rare, longer version that was previously only available on – you guessed it! – that album’s eight-track cartridge release. (Happily, there will be no gimmicky eight-track format release of 8-Tracks.)
Both CDs (and the vinyl of 8-Tracks) can be pre-ordered below. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 (Columbia/Sony Music, 2026) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Disc 1
Raving and Drooling
You’ve Got to Be Crazy
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)
Have a Cigar
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9)
Disc 2
Speak to Me
Breathe (In the Air)
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse
Echoes
All tracks recorded live by Mike Millard at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA – 4/26/1975 and remastered by Steven Wilson. Previously released on Blu-ray in Wish You Were Here 50 – Columbia/Sony Music 19802876741OS, 2025
8-Tracks (Columbia/Sony Music, 2026)
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LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Side A
One 0f These Days
Wot’s…Uh the Deal
Money
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
Side B
Wish You Were Here
Time
Comfortably Numb
Pigs on the Wing (Full Version)
Track A1 from Meddle – Harvest SHVL 795 (U.K.)/SMAS-832 (U.S.), 1971
Track A2 from Obscured by Clouds – Harvest SHSP 4020 (U.K.)/ST-11078 (U.S.), 1972
Tracks A3 and B2 from The Dark Side of the Moon – Harvest SHVL 804 (U.K.)/SMAS-11163 (U.S.), 1973
Tracks A4 and B3 from The Wall – Harvest SHDW 411 (U.K.)/Columbia PC2 36183 (U.S.), 1979
Track B1 from Wish You Were Here – Harvest SHVL 814 (U.K.)/Columbia PC 33453 (U.S.), 1975
Track B4 from Animals eight-track cartridge – Harvest 8X-SHVL 815 (U.K.)/Columbia JCA 34474 (U.S.), 1977