Pink Floyd Add Unreleased 'The Dark Side Of The Moon'-Era Gigs To Streaming Services

Pink Floyd don't need fanfare or pre-orders to release rare recordings of their music.

The legendary British band added 18 previously unreleased live albums from the seminal Dark Side Of The Moon era, as well as an Alternative Tracks 1972 EP, to streaming services. 

The 18 live albums find Pink Floyd promoting their sixth and seventh albums, Meddle (1971) and Obscured By Clouds (1972), but more exciting, road-testing songs that would make up The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973). 

The Alternative Tracks EP comprises a trance remix of Any Colour You Like, a Speak To Me meets Breathe (In The Air) mash-up, an On The Run rough demo, and "ultra rare alternative versions" including another mash-up of Time and Breathe (In The Air), and a rare cut of Us And Them.

Earlier this year, Pink Floyd joined TikTok, in a move that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the band entering the studio to record The Dark Side Of The Moon. 

A statement from TikTok confirmed that their “amazing song catalogue” had been added to its sound library, including Another Brick In The Wall (Part II), Money, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Comfortably Numb, High Hopes, The Great Gig In The Sky and Wish You Were Here.

“The TikTok community will be able to use Pink Floyd sounds in their own video creations from the band's staggering 15 studio albums,” TikTok noted.

“But it's not just the incredible music, Pink Floyd will be regularly posting unique video content, and we can't wait to see it. Known throughout their long distinguished career as using spectacular visuals, we know our community is in for a treat. So if you're a Pink Floyd fan, check out the music on our sounds pages and get creating."

In April, Pink Floyd released their first song in 28 years.

David Gilmour and Nick Mason teamed up for Hey, Hey, Rise Up, raising funds for the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. 

The song marks the band's first original music since The Division Bell's release in 1994. 

Gilmour and Mason wrote the track at the end of March, joined in the studio by bassist Guy Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney. 

“We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers," Gilmour said.

"I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities and raise morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and, in that way, show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become.”

Pink Floyd's latest 18 live albums are available to stream now; here is the complete list:

Live at Southampton Guildhall, UK, 23 January 1972
Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 5 February 1972
Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 17 February 1972
Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 18 February 1972
Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 19 February 1972
Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 20 February 1972
Live at the Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan, 3 March 1972
Live at Osaka Festival Hall, Japan, 8 March 1972
Live at Nakajima Sports Centre, Sapporo, Japan, 13 March 1972
Live at Chicago Auditorium Theatre, USA, 28 April 1972
Live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, 18 May 1972
Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 22 September 1972
Live at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London, 21 October 1972
Live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany, 12 November 1972
Live at the Palais des Sports, Poitiers, France 29 November 1972
Live at the Palais des Sports de L’Ile de la Jatte, Saint Ouen, France, 1 December 1972
Live at the Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium, 5 December 1972
Live at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 9 December 72