Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1965-1972: 28 disc boxset & 2CD highlights set |
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Thursday, 28 July 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
Now confirmed: on November 11th 2016, Pink Floyd will release 'The Early Years 1965-1972', a mouthwatering, comprehensive 28-disc boxset that sees Pink Floyd delve into their vast music archive to produce a deluxe package that includes 7 individual book-style volumes, featuring a stack of previously unreleased material. This follows an eagerly followed and dissected teaser campaign which saw cryptic 'slash' imagery hit the band's official social media channels, and a daily release of early images, all backed with the same black background and white 'slash'. The Early Years box set contains unreleased tracks, BBC Radio Sessions, remixes, outtakes and alternative versions over an incredible 11 hours and 45 minutes of audio (made up of 130+ tracks) and live and TV performance in over 14 hours of audio-visual material. The content includes over 20 unreleased songs, more than 7 hours of previously unreleased live audio and over 5 hours of rare concert footage are included, along with 5 meticulously produced 7” singles in replica sleeves, collectable memorabilia, feature films and new sound mixes. An overview of the contents of each year's package is below, and for those who want to digest the full track listing, it can be seen here - all six pages of it, tightly packed with content! This really is a mammoth set... UPDATE, November 5th: the package has now been swollen to 28 discs, with the inclusion of a supplementary disc featuring the Live At Pompeii concert as a 2016 audio mix. The 6 tracks totalling over 67 minutes include live versions of 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene', 'Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sun', 'One of These Days', 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', 'Echoes' and intriguingly an alternative take of 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene'! Live at Pompeii has never been available officially as an audio only CD - only as a bootleg in varying degrees of quality - so this is a real first for fans. To also include an alternative take of 'Eugene' is very interesting... The Early Years 1965-1972 will give collectors the opportunity to hear the evolution of the band and witness their part in cultural revolutions from their earliest recordings and studio sessions to the years prior to the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon, one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Fans will see the invention of psychedelic progressive rock via an insightful collection that explores the Pink Floyd story from the time Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett met at London's Regent Street Polytechnic, through to Syd's departure and David Gilmour joining, to the point just before things changed for the band for good with the release of TDSOTM. Each individual book-style package will be released separately early in 2017, with the exception of 'BONUS CONTINU/ATION' which is exclusive to the box set. For those who just want a taster of the contents, a 2CD highlights collection, Pink Floyd Cre/ation The Early Years 1967 – 1972, will also be available. The tracklisting for this 2CD set can be seen here.
ORDERING INFORMATION:
It is REALLY worth checking the other Amazon stores, rather than just your local one, as pricing varies hugely; at time of writing, Amazon UK and Italy are both around the cheapest, and they will ship internationally. Amazon also offer their preorder price guarantee - if the price they offer an item for drops at any point between when you place your order, and the release date, they will automatically charge you the lowest price. Buying through our links will give a small but vital contribution toward running this site, and is much appreciated. As yet we don't know if there is region coding on the Blu-ray and/or DVD discs, so if purchasing from a different region (e.g. you're in North America, buying from Europe, or vice versa), please be cautious. Also worth noting: the official PF store has started releasing some special products relating to the box set - t-shirts and mugs, for example - and the range of their wares on offer can be seen through this link. BOX SET CONTENTS OVERVIEW: For the FULL track listing click here.
1965-1967 - CAMBRIDGE ST/ATION
1968 - GERMIN/ATION
1969 - DRAMATIS/ATION
1970 - DEVI/ATION
1971 - REVERBER/ATION
1972 - OBFUSC/ATION
BONUS - CONTINU/ATION (Exclusive to 'The Early Years 1965-1972' box set) Phew! Quite a collection of items, and plenty which will be new to even the most thorough of Pink Floyd collectors/completists. The full track listing will be here shortly, but needless to say, this looks like it will prove a very popular release.
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