P*U*L*S*E (film)

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P*U*L*S*E
DVD cover of P*U*L*S*E
Directed by	David Mallet
Produced by	David Gilmour James Guthrie Steve O'Rourke Lana Topham
Starring	Pink Floyd (David Gilmour Rick Wright Nick Mason)
Music by	Pink Floyd (Roger Waters David Gilmour Rick Wright Nick Mason)
Cinematography	David Mallet
Distributed by	EMI & Sony Music Video (SMV) Enterprises
Release date(s)	June 1995 (VHS) July 2006 (DVD)
Running time	145 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

P*U*L*S*E is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the October 20, 1994 concert at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, in The Division Bell tour, which is currently available on DVD.

There was considerable delay in the release of the DVD edition of P*U*L*S*E, with new features announced with each setback. The cause of the delays was reputed to be the continued modifications and additions in order to produce a high-quality release.^[1] The previous planned release date of 22 September 2005 for the two-disc DVD set was changed to 10 July 2006 for the UK and Europe, and 11 July 2006 everywhere else.^[1]

Contents 1 DVD track listing 1.1 Concert 1.2 Special Features 2 VHS track listing 3 Personnel 4 Trivia 5 Notes and references 6 External links

[edit] DVD track listing

[edit] Concert

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Concert version) (Gilmour/Waters/Wright)
2. "Learning to Fly" (Gilmour/Moore/Ezrin/Carin)
3. "High Hopes" (Gilmour/Samson)
4. "Take It Back" (Gilmour/Ezrin/Samson/Laird-Clowes)
5. "Coming Back to Life" (Gilmour)
6. "Sorrow" (Gilmour)
7. "Keep Talking" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson)
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (Waters)
9. "One of These Days" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
10. "Speak to Me" (Mason)
11. "Breathe in the Air" (Gilmour/Waters/Wright)
12. "On the Run" (Gilmour/Waters)
13. "Time" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
14. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Wright/Clare Torry)
15. "Money" (Waters)
16. "Us and Them" (Waters/Wright)
17. "Any Colour You Like" (Gilmour/Mason/Wright)
18. "Brain Damage" (Waters)
19. "Eclipse" (Waters)
20. "Wish You Were Here" (Gilmour/Waters)
21. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour/Waters)
22. "Run Like Hell" (Gilmour/Waters)

[edit] Special Features

Bootlegging the Bootleggers:

1. "What Do You Want from Me" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson)
2. "On the Turning Away" (Gilmour/Moore)
3. "Poles Apart" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson/Laird-Clowes)
4. "Marooned" (Wright/Gilmour)

Screen Films:

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "High Hopes"
4. "Speak to Me" (graphic)
5. "On the Run"
6. "Time" (1994)
7. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (wave)
8. "Money" (1987)
9. "Us and Them" (1987)
10. "Brain Damage"
11. "Eclipse"
12. Alternate versions:
    1. "Time" (Ian Eames)
    2. "Money" (Alien)
    3. "Speak to Me" (1987)
    4. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (animation)
    5. "Us and Them" (1994)

Music Videos: "Learning to Fly" and "Take It Back"

Behind the Scenes Footage: "Say Goodbye to Life as We Know It"

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, USA 1996, including "Wish You Were Here" with Billy Corgan

Other:

1. Photo gallery
2. Cover art
3. P*U*L*S*E TV advertisement [1995]
4. Tour maps
5. Itinerary
6. Stage plans

[edit] VHS track listing

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Waters/Wright/Gilmour)
2. "Learning to Fly" (Gilmour/Moore/Ezrin/Carin)
3. "High Hopes" (Gilmour/Samson)
4. "Take It Back" (Gilmour/Ezrin/Samson/Laird-Clowes)
5. "Coming Back to Life" (Gilmour)
6. "Sorrow" (Gilmour)
7. "Keep Talking" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson)
8. "Speak to Me" (Mason/Waters)
9. "Breathe" (Waters/Gilmour/Wright)
10. "On the Run" (Gilmour/Waters)
11. "Time" (Mason/Waters/Wright/Gilmour)
12. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Wright/Torry)
13. "Money" (Waters)
14. "Us and Them" (Waters/Wright)
15. "Any Colour You Like" (Gilmour/Mason/Wright)
16. "Brain Damage" (Waters)
17. "Eclipse" (Waters)
18. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (Waters)
19. "One of These Days" (Waters/Wright/Gilmour/Mason)
20. "Wish You Were Here" (Waters/Gilmour)
21. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour/Waters)
22. "Run Like Hell" (Gilmour/Waters)

[edit] Personnel

• David Gilmour - guitars, vocals
• Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
• Nick Mason - drums

with

• Jon Carin - additional keyboards, vocals
• Guy Pratt - bass, vocals
• Gary Wallis - percussion
• Tim Renwick - guitars, vocals
• Dick Parry - saxophone
• Sam Brown - backing vocals
• Claudia Fontaine - backing vocals
• Durga McBroom - backing vocals

[edit] Trivia

• While the album is a mix of various concerts, this video is of a single performance.
• The mirror ball used at the end of the song "Comfortably Numb" is one of the largest in the world. 4.9 metres in diameter, it rises to a height of 21.3 metres before opening to a width of 7.3 metres, revealing a 12 kilowatt Phobeus HMI lamp.^[2]
• In the original PPV broadcast, right before the segue into "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", the word "ENIGMA" appeared on the backdrop before it was scribbled out by a black permanent marker. It also appeared on the VHS version, although with added strokes making it slightly harder to see. This was one of the confirmations to various Pink Floyd message groups that the Publius Enigma puzzle was legitimate. On the 2006 DVD version, the screen reads "E=MC²" instead of "ENIGMA" (although ENIGMA does appear for a brief moment on the DVD), seeming to confirm Nick Mason's statements to various book signing crowds that the puzzle was real, but that the person behind it at EMI no longer works for them and that the riddle has been abandoned.
• In "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" the lead vocals (originally done by Waters) is sung by David Gilmour.
• In "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" the lead vocals (originally done by David Gilmour and Roger Waters), are done by Gilmour and Guy Pratt.
• The lead vocal of "The Great Gig in the Sky", originally done by Clare Torry alone, is done in turn by Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom.
• In "Comfortably Numb", the part of the Doctor (originally by Waters) is sung by Richard Wright, with Jon Carin and Guy Pratt providing backing vocals.
• During the introduction to "Run Like Hell", Gilmour plays some notes from the Vera Lynn's song "We'll Meet Again", in reference to The Wall album.
• For "Run Like Hell", Guy Pratt takes the place in "replying" to David Gilmour that belonged to Roger Waters in the The Wall tour. In the original recording, all the lead vocals of the song were by Waters, but each line alternated between channels, giving the illusion of multiple voices.
• The DVD release entered the music DVD charts at #1 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Additionally, it has one of the top 3 best first week's DVD sales in the US.^[3]
• For some reason the song Breathe was listed as "Breathe in the Air" on the DVD release.
• Cover art is once more done by Storm Thorgerson, the same designer and photographer that has worked with Pink Floyd several times before.
• Two giant eyeballs that were used to promote the DVD release, were sold on eBay for £16,500, with the proceeds being donated to the homeless charity, Crisis.^[4]

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Official website of the film

v • d • e Pink Floyd

David Gilmour • Richard Wright • Nick Mason Syd Barrett • Bob Klose • Roger Waters Discography Studio albums: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) • A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) • Ummagumma (1969) • Atom Heart Mother (1970) • Meddle (1971) • The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) • Wish You Were Here (1975) • Animals (1977) • The Wall (1979) • The Final Cut (1983) • A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) • The Division Bell (1994) Soundtracks: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1968) • More (1969) • Zabriskie Point (1970) • Obscured by Clouds (1972) Live: Ummagumma (1969) • Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) • P*U*L*S*E (1995) • Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 (2000) Compilations: Relics (1971) • A Nice Pair (1973) • Masters of Rock (1974) • A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) • Works (1983) • Shine On (The Early Singles) (1992) • 1967 Singles Sampler (1997) • Echoes (2001) Films Live at Pompeii • The Wall • Delicate Sound of Thunder • La Carrera Panamericana • London '66-'67 • The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon • P*U*L*S*E • The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story Related articles Alan Parsons • Storm Thorgerson/Hipgnosis • Steve O'Rourke • Contributors • Live performances • Trivia • A Tree Full of Secrets • Pigs • Publius Enigma • Dark Side of the Rainbow • The Man and the Journey • List of ROIOs