{"id":228733,"date":"2025-10-27T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228733\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:46:09","slug":"the-one-pink-floyd-song-david-gilmour-called-a-masterwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228733\/","title":{"rendered":"The one Pink Floyd song David Gilmour called a “masterwork”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/p>\n

(Credit: Alamy)<\/p>\n

Mon 27 October 2025 16:44, UK <\/p>\n

The world of the 1960s music scene was a strange place to be. Almost overnight, Britain emerged as one of the frontrunners of the new musical sound, and though it was heavily inspired by the Delta blues, a whole new range of artists seemed to arrive in the capital, all looking for a piece of the pie, including Pink Floyd<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But the band, originally comprised of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, were a little different. With foundations in jazz and inspirations from the burgeoning world of psychedelia, it soon became clear that the Floyd were a different kind of band altogether. They were the princes of acid rock, and they were not about to follow the rules. <\/p>\n

Even after Barrett left the group, things continued in this way. As rock bands continue to search for killer singles to reach the top of the charts, Pink Floyd, alongside their new recruit, David Gilmour, pranced along a different path. <\/p>\n

Pink Floyd\u00a0excelled at creating songs that defied the traditional rules of songwriting. They rarely carried out their business in an ordinary fashion, and experimentation was at the heart of Pink Floyd\u2019s success, leading to the creation of a classic track which the band\u2019s David Gilmour described as a \u201cmasterwork\u201d.<\/p>\n

The track in question is \u2018Echoes\u2019, which appeared on\u00a0Meddle. The effort is more than a typical definition of a song; it\u2019s a 23-minute piece of theatre which couldn\u2019t have been crafted by any other act on the planet.\u00a0Meddle\u00a0was the first album which landed upon their trademark soundscape, setting a blueprint for the group going forward and \u2018Echoes\u2019 was crucial in their development.<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a>The original line-up of Pink Floyd. (Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

While Pink Floyd were already one of the biggest bands in Britain, it was their last two albums, Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother<\/a>, which saw them move away from the psychedelic sound of their early work, but the band were yet to stride. With Meddle, Pink Floyd finally unlocked their potential and \u2018Echoes\u2019 was the album\u2019s most crucial component.<\/p>\n

Even after they recorded the song, \u2018Echoes\u2019 continued to be a source of reference for Pink Floyd in the studio and provided a basis to make \u2018One Of These Days\u2019, the opening track to the same album.<\/p>\n

Without \u2018Echoes\u2019, Meddle would have fallen to pieces, and in the mind of Gilmour, it was vital in Pink Floyd becoming the band they always could have been. Looking back upon the release of Guitar World in 1993, Gilmour reflected, \u201cWell, I think \u2018Echoes\u2019 is the masterwork of the album \u2013 the one where we were all discovering what Pink Floyd is about. \u2018One Of These Days\u2019 is a little subsidiary piece that came out of the work on \u2018Echoes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI always loved it. It\u2019s seminal, I suppose, yeah. A lot shorter, in any case \u2013 better for radio play. Meddle is really the album where all four of us were finding our feet \u2013 the way we wanted Pink Floyd to be. Much more than on Ummagumma or Atom Heart Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same conversation, Gilmour explained how \u2018Echoes\u2019 was one of the pivotal songs in the Pink Floyd back catalogue and stated how it led to them later creating their magnum opus, The Dark Side Of The Moon. \u201c\u2018A Saucerful of Secrets\u2019 was a very important track; it gave us our direction forward. If you take \u2018A Saucerful of Secrets\u2019, \u2018Atom Heart Mother\u2019 and \u2018Echoes\u2019 \u2013 all lead logically to Dark Side of the Moon,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Gilmour has previously labelled \u2018Echoes\u2019 as his favourite song by Pink Floyd to perform live, although he hasn\u2019t performed the track since the death of Rick Wright. Speaking at an event in 2020, the musician revealed: \u201c\u2018Echoes\u2019, I would say. Was terrific fun to play, particularly on my last solo tour and the solo tour in 2006 with Rick Wright. That was terrific, and it couldn\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be played again now he\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the footage below of Gilmour performing \u2018Echoes\u2019 with the assistance of Wright in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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