Moonhead
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Annotation
An instrumental piece commissioned by BBC TV as part of an Omnibus documentary, What if It's Just Green Cheese? about the first moon landing.
Recorded on 10 July 1969, the programme was used by the BBC on 20 July 1969 during in between the coverage of the actual moonlanding.
The theme was the first verse and the coda, with various actors reading quotes and poetry about the moon. Later in the show, Moonhead was performed live and uninterrupted.
Details from various sources, Wikipedia, The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia and Pink Floyd Hyperbase
Annotation last modified on 2020-06-30 22:52 UTC.
Relationships
| composer: | David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd) Roger Waters Richard Wright (Pink Floyd keyboardist) |
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| publisher: | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd. WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) |
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Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1969-07-10 | Moonhead (1969-07-10: Studio BBC TV, Moon Landing Special) | Pink Floyd | 5:42 | |
| 1969-07-20 | Moonhead (live, 1969‐07‐20: “Omnibus’ What If It’s Just Green Cheese?”) | live | Pink Floyd | 6:29 |
| 1969-07-20 | Moonhead (live, 1969-07-20: Omnibus, BBC TV Centre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 7:17 |
| 1969-07-20 | Moonhead (OST from “NASA Apollo 11” BBC 1969) | live | Pink Floyd | 5:37 |
| 1970-02-11 | Heart Beat, Pig Meat / Quicksilver / Moonhead / The Violent Sequence (live, 1970-02-11: Town Hall, Birmingham, UK) | live and medley | Pink Floyd | 24:33 |
| 1970-02-11 | Moonhead (live, 1970-02-11: Town Hall, Birmingham, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 4:54 |
| 1970-02-11 | Moonhead (live, 1970-02-11: Town Hall, Birmingham, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 4:27 |
| 1970-02-11 | The Violent Sequence (live, 1970-02-11: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 21:57 |
| 1970-11-14 | Moonhead (live, 1970-11-14: Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, W.Germany) | live | Pink Floyd | 7:39 |
| Moonhead (Unreleased) | Pink Floyd | ?:?? | ||
| Oenone (Zabriskie Piont) / Selene (aka Moonhead) | Pink Floyd | 11:54 | ||
| Trip on Mars | Pink Floyd | 5:38 | ||