THE 25 MOST IMPORTANT GIGS



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January 1973 « Dark Side of the Moon Recording », EMI Studios, London, England

Maben would have filmed more footage of the group in full recording of their opus magnum in order to complete his film « Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii ». Unfortunately, the rushes suffered the same fate as the sequences made in Italy.

12 January 1973 « JT de 20h », TF1 TV, Paris, France

Rehearsals of the band at the Palais des Sports, we see mainly Rick and David as well as Roland Petit organizing the lighting effects. It is difficult to say whether these are excerpts already shown or not. What is certain is that they were broadcast in Black and White. Present on the box « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 ».

13 January 1973 « Ballet Roland Petit », Palais des Sports de la porte de Versailles, Paris, France

« Gaumont Pathé Archives »  (Rehearsals)

More  extracts filmed by « Gaumont Pathé » were not used by the TV news programmes but exist in the audiovisual archives (silent).  The first source shows the concert; the second, the rehearsals with Roland Petit. Partly featured on the box set « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 » Many more extracts exist in the Gaumont Pathé Archives but was never used. All mute. The first source shows the concert; the second, the rehearsals w/. Roland Petit. Partially present on the boxset.


« Gaumont Pathé Archives »  (concert)

14 January 1973 « Ballet Roland Petit », Palais des Sports de la porte de Versailles, Paris, France
Sample from the Paris’ concertas broadcasted in the News show on January 16, 1973 (in color). The band can be seen playing (tape found by MOB).

16 January 1973 «Journal de Paris », ORTF TV, Paris, France

Some extended extracts of One of these Days and Echoes filmed during the rehearsals on 12 January 1973 are broadcasted aside the interviews of R. Petit and D. Gilmour in french.

14 January 1973 « Ballet Roland Petit », Palais des Sports de la porte de Versailles, Paris, France
Sample from the Paris’ concertas broadcasted in the News show on January 16, 1973 (in color). The band can be seen playing (tape found by MOB).

16 January 1973 «Journal de Paris », ORTF TV, Paris, France

Some extended extracts of One of these Days and Echoes filmed during the rehearsals on 12 January 1973 are broadcasted aside the interviews of R. Petit and D. Gilmour in french.

4 March 1973 Dane County Memorial Coliseum, Madison, USA

A wonderful two-sources 8mm footage from the photographer Rich Zimmermann showing large extracts from this concert. With an almost complete version of Childhood’s End. Since the tape of this concert is still buried (see the Mission in Action page for more details), many audio sources from this era were used. An another work from the « Pink Floyd research group » released on February 2025.

24 March 1973 Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, USA
Shot in 8mm by David Beals. Scanned and edited in 2013.  A new 4K scan is released in 2024 by the «Pink Floyd research group». We can see Obscured by Clouds and Childhood’s end among others 

3 April 1973 « Old Grey Whistle Test », BBC TV, London, England

First broadcast of Ian Emes's film on One of these Days. It was rebroadcast for the first time on 1 January 1987. For the background story, the drawner had made this film as a semi-pro project. It was Rick Wright who was impressed by his work and recommended it to his colleagues. He was invited to project his work in a Wardour Street theater. Afterwards, the band has decided to commission him a movie about Time.

One of storyboard’s sequence . Copyright: Ian EMES.

17 April 1973 « All my Loving », BBC TV, London, England

Broadcasting of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun shot in en 1968 by Tony Palmer (see then entry 28 March 1968)

17 April 1973 « Old Grey Whistle Test », BBC TV,  London, England

An abstract movie about A Pillow of Winds is broadcasted on BBC.

20 September 1973 « Get to Know », ABC TV, Sydney, Australia
Some chit-chat about Pink Floyd in this show (for the first time since 1971) with the promo of Brain Damage.

2 November 1973 « Paris City », ORTF TV, Paris, France
A topic on Pink Floyd on this local TV magazine (no more details).

3 November 1973 « Pop 2 », ORTF TV, Paris, France

Some well-know extracts of the band.

17 December 1973 « Ouvrez les guillemets », ORTF TV, Paris, France

Michel Lancelot presents various books about pop music. He’s talking with Alain Sister, the author of the book « Le rock Anglais » and Jean Marie Leduc for « Le livre du Pink Floyd ».

31 December 1973 « Old Grey Whistle Test », BBC TV, London, England

An another Ian Emes’ movie about Echoes. Some bits were re-used for the promo video of Nothing (Part 14).