As you know from earlier posts is one of my all-time favorite Pink Floyd songs. (Can you tell how much I’m not in the Christmas mood? I should be posting Phil Spector Christmas stuff, dontcha think?) Anyways, the Floyd’s full version is here, but if you want to see what it might look like performed absolutely live with band and chorus I highly recommend you pour yourself a cocktail, set your YouTube setting to full screen and enjoy this video by Pink Floyd Legend. They do a pretty fine job mixing live with the Floyd’s original effects. My only quibble is with the drummer – he’s a little (as Donald Trump might say regarding Jeb! Bush) “low energy”, and not as active as Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason was on the original recording. Still, as a modern piece of popular music (dare I say, opera?) it’s positively fab, and I wish I was one of the members in the choir singing all those funky passages.

Even with all the psychedelic stuff that was going on back in 1970 I still find this to be a truly unique and stirring piece of music. Think of it: today we have Justin Bieber. My how civilization has evolved!