Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
Live recording and filming 23-31 May and June 1972 
* Premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival September 1972

OVERVIEW
Additional filming in October 1972 for later releases
Film of the band playing at Pompeii's ancient amphitheatre

Nick Mason: "The Pompeii film's had a history nearly as long as the [Roland Petit] ballet. Whenever it's about to be premiered, Adrian Markham [sic] the director rings up and says, 'Listen I must have just a bit more film.' We've been adding little bits to it for ages."

Roger Waters: "It's not a bad film. I saw the final version in New York. What it is, is just us playing a load of tunes in the amphitheatre at Pompeii interspersed with rather Top of the Popsy shots of us walking around the top of Vesuvius and things like that, and it was a bit of an elbow. Since then he came to London and shot us in the studio for a couple of days, which has made it much more lively and it's quite an entertaining film. I think Pink Floyd freaks would enjoy it. I don't know if anyone else would. I liked it because it's just like a big time movie."

Circa 1989:
Dave: "It's the kind of film that they should just show once on late-night television. I don't think it holds up on videotape."
Nick: "It's a very interesting film, actually."
Rick: "The only problem was the director."

Robert Smith and the Beastie Boys are fans of this film.

Opening Credits
RM Productions
Television Française
Television Belge
Bayerischer Rundfunk
présentent

DAVID GILMOUR
NICK MASON
ROGER WATERS
RICHARD WRIGHT

PINK FLOYD

Producteurs delegues
REINER MORITZ
MICHELE ARNAUD

Un film
ADRIAN MABEN

Closing Credits
directeurs de production
Marc Laurore
Hans Thorner
Leonardo Pescarolo

directeurs de la photo
Gabor Pogany
Willy Kurant

images
Claude Agostini
Gerard Hameline
Henri Czap
Jacques Boumendil

son
Peter Watts (PINK FLOYD)
Charles Rauchet

mixage
Paul Berhault

script
Marie-Noel Zurstrassen

montage
Jose Pinheiro
Marie-Claire Perret

road managers
Brian Scott
Robert Richardson
Chris Adamson

transflex
Michel Ygouf

studios de Boulogne
Europasonor
Laboratories Eclair
Nous tenons a remercier
Le Professeur Carput
d l'Universite de Naples
Haroun Tazieff
La Soprintendenza alle Antichità delle Province di Napoli

TRACK LISTING
Pompeii (Main Theme)
Echoes part I
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Saucerful of Secrets, A
One of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Mademoiselle Nobs
Echoes part II