PINK FLOYD 7" RELEASES WORLDWIDE

Good morning to all you vinylheads out there! Today I am having a look at part of my Floyd collection and specifically the 7" singles. As you probably already know, they did not release any UK 7" between 1968 & 1979! but there was a lot of releases elsewhere in the world to meet the demand particularly in Europe & the US. Pictured below are a selection between 1967 & 1994

Before I tell you more about the releases can you tell me how many different countries releases are featured here & name them? Answers within the next 24hrs please - the first person to guess correctly will get a free 7" copy of  Another brick in the wall from my amazon store. 

See you again tomorrow for answers, KEEP VINYL ALIVE  - Vinyl_Spurs

Well either you all have a copy of Pink Floyd's first UK release for 11 years in 1979 or there is a problem with the blogger comment box. 

Anyway the correct answer was 5 and the countries were UK (of course) US Syd Barrett Pink Vinyl 7" & Money- ITALY - 70's P/S Free Four & Point me at the sky - NETHERLANDS - Have a cigar & GREECE 60's re-issues of Arnold Layne & See Emily play. 

So you want to know some more about some of the releases? 

Back where it all started, a 1967 copy of the Pink Floyd's 2nd UK single See Emily Play

COLUMBIA DB 8214 released in a red Columbia company sleeve and still one of their most sought after early releases. Below is a Greek re-issue from 1974 B side The Scarecrow

HARVEST HARG 1522 

Also released at the same time is a Greek re-issue of Arnold Layne/Candy & the currant bun

HARVEST HARG 1521

The 2 Italian releases feature more obscure tracks that are probably not so widely known to a lot of people (as pictured below) 

EMI Italiana 3C 006 05459 - Point me at the sky/Careful with that axe Eugene 1973

EMI Italiana 3C 006 05086 - Free Four/The gold it's in the............ 1972

As well as other countries released various singles in the 70's including Holland/Netherlands - shown below is a copy of the P/S for Have a cigar/ SOYCD from wish you were here, with the iconic machine handshake

HARVEST  - 5C 006-97 357 - 1976

Moving forward to Division Bell & Pulse, a lot of material was released around this time and below is a copy of high hopes 7" with the fold out poster cover & clear vinyl pressing of High Hopes / Keep Talking. Probably the 2 best tracks from the Division Bell LP 

EMI  - EM 342 - Clear Vinyl

There are of course a large number of other releases from around the world, and if you want to share items from your Floyd collection I would be glad to hear from you. By the way (hush hush) I have just picked up a collection of Rock memorabilia which includes Floyd vinyl & books so keep your eyes open on Vinyl_Spurs sites for them hitting the stores real soon! 

Vinyl_Spurs - BEATLES + PINK FLOYD ON EBAY 

PINK FLOYD - THE SCREAMING ABDAB BOOTLEG

I don't normally buy bootleg copies but this is the only one I ever bought back in the 70's
Recorded at London WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL (As it was at the time) from the Floyd's November 1974 British Winter tour- Although it states WEMBLEY STADIUM on the cover, they didn't actually play the stadium until the "Momentary lapse of reason tour" on 5th August 1988 (A gig I attended with my brother)

The LP features 3 tracks  - side 1 - SOYCD  - side 2 Raving & Drooling & You gotta be crazy, which were earlier names for Sheep & Dogs respectively.

The recording quality and the size of the venue give it a very echoing booming sound but SOYCD is still not bad, but the sound on side 2 is somewhat harsher with the vocals. All in all though still not a bad recording as bootlegs go.