“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” – Pink Floyd

“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” from Pink Floyd accompanied me all the way round New Zealand’s South Island in the back seat of the family car at the end of 1975, my last year at school. (I grew up on the North Island, by the way.)

And a few years later I remember hearing a band called Father Time playing it in the “Old Wool Room” at Massey University, where they used to hold the student dances before it was pulled down. Key members of Father Time later went on to become “Mi-Sex”, a top band in Australia.

Of course, Pink Floyd was everywhere in the 70s, you couldn’t go to a party without hearing the album “Dark Side of the Moon” if nothing else.

I had a bit of a problem regarding a video of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” – the song is so long, people have had to break it up and it wasn’t so easy to find the matching clips!

This one is an earlier live version, from 1974:

And here are two parts form a concert in LA, also in the Seventies, though the accompanying footage is more recent, i.e. 2008:

Finally, three more recent renderings, Pink Floyd… in 1990 –

and David Gilmour… electric in 2007:

And Dave Gilmour solo doing a purely accoustic version on his own:

I could have spent all night listening to all the different versions of this song, but I’ll leave you with these ones for now….

Keep on shining!

Paul

Tags: David Gilmour, Music of the Seventies, Pink Floyd, Seventies Rock Bands, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Syd Barrett

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