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Friday’s Finest is a weekly collaborative post between us at Turtle Tempo, It’s All Indie & Nexus Music Blog. As each week we pick a track that we have been loving for the past 7 days with the post going up on one our respected blogs. Dan from Turtle Tempo’s pick – Dutchkid – Flight …
Looking online, and going by some of the emails we’ve received here at Brain Damage, there seems to be a bit of confusion in some quarters over the credits for A Great Day For Freedom 2022, the new version on the physical, 7″ and CD single release of Pink Floyd’s Hey Hey Rise Up (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/pink-floyds-hey-hey-7-and-cd-single-out-today.html), which has been released to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief. We’ve had it confirmed by Pink Floyd management that the credits on the single are 100% correct. The piano was re-done, the main synth was from David Gilmour’s original demo, and the backing vocalists were added on to replace the orchestra. For those who haven’t seen them yet, here are the credits:
– David Gilmour: Vocals, guitars, keyboards
– Nick Mason: Drums
– Richard Wright: Keyboards
– Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom: Backing vocals We hope this information helps clarify what the situation is with this new version of A Great Day For Freedom, in particular, the personnel on it.
There are two things on the UK’s BBC which may be of interest, on Saturday (20th May). The first appears on Radio 4, and is an hour long dramatisation by Roger James Elsgood of Haydn Middleton’s novel The Ballad of Syd Morgan. This sees Syd Barrett (played by Tyger Drew-Honey) encountering novelist E M Forster (played by Simon Russell Beale) in King’s College, Cambridge, in 1968. Their meeting “leads to a conversation between two men belonging to very different eras of the 20th century and at markedly different stages in their lives, about the loss and the continued absence of creativity.” More information can be found here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m4cx), and it airs at 3pm UK time. It will be available on demand via the BBC’s iPlayer service shortly after broadcast. Also on Saturday – and again in the UK, but potentially available worldwide online via the BBC’s iPlayer – the new series of Later…With Jools Holland starts at 9:50pm on the BBC Two television channel. Amongst the guests is Jill Furmanovsky who started photographing Pink Floyd way back in 1972, so it would be astonishing if she didn’t at least mention the band during the interview. Jill’s taken iconic pictures of numerous iconic artists, and there’s currently an exhibition of some of her incredible work at Manchester City Library, running until June 24th, 2023. Admission is free and we hear it is well worth visiting.
