Interstellar Overdrive (180g) (RSD)
Pink Floyd
LPA
- Interstellar Overdrive
To celebrate Record Store Day 2017 Pink Floyd will be releasing the highly collectible 12” single ‘Interstellar Overdrive’. The mono single will be a one-sided 12” 180-gram black vinyl and includes a fold-out poster plus an A6 postcard featuring a classic image of the band taken whilst they were recording their debut single, ‘Arnold Layne’.
Written and performed by Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ is an unheard recording from 1966, running at a hefty 14’57 minutes long. The original recording was done at the Thomson studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire on 31 November 1966, before the band were signed to EMI. A different, shorter version of the track appears on the band’s debut album ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’
The images for the single artwork are taken from the Granada TV film ‘Scene – Underground’ shot at UFO at the Blarney Club, London 27 January 1967’. The short-lived UFO Club was the scene of the band’s early, pioneering psychedelic shows that saw Pink Floyd establish their position in the UK music scene.
