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July 20, 2009

Check Out Pink Floyd's 'Moonhead', Lunar Landing Jam (Unreleased Bootleg)... Recorded During Apollo 11 Broadcast 1969...

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The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead — it’s a nice, atmospheric, spacey 12-bar blues.

A post on Mr. Gilmour’s blog identifies the YouTube video above — apparently made by a fan using a bootleg recording of the original song and television images of astronauts from a later lunar mission — as the song.


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