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"Echoes" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the sixth and last track on their 1971 album Meddle. It is 23+1⁄2 minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the original LP. The track evolved from a variety of different musical themes and ideas, including instrumental passages and studio effects, resulting in the side-long piece. The music, credited to all the band, was mainly written by Richard Wright and David Gilmour, while Roger Waters' lyrics addressed themes of human communication and empathy, which he returned to in later work.
The song was performed live regularly by Pink Floyd from 1971 to 1975, including a performance in the film Live at Pompeii (1972). It was used for the opening shows on the 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour but subsequently dropped. David Gilmour revived "Echoes" for his 2006 On an Island Tour, which featured Richard Wright, but retired the piece after Wright's death in 2008. The studio recording was used in the film Crystal Voyager (1973) while an edited version is included on the greatest-hits album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001).
"Echoes" has been regarded by critics as an important song that transitions between Pink Floyd's early experimental material as a cult band and later mainstream success. Several publications have remarked it as one of the best songs by the group. The group have mixed views of the track, but it was a particular favourite of Wright's.
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writer: | David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd) Roger Waters Richard Wright (Pink Floyd keyboardist) |
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publisher: | Artemis Muziekuitgeverij B V Chappell (company that specialized in library and production music) Hampshire House Publishing Corp. Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd. Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd. TRO-Hampshire House Publishing Corp. Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd. (renamed as Warner Chappell Music Publishing Ltd. since 2019/05/16) World Copyrights Ltd. |
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SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/32335 [info] |
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Songfacts: | http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1214 [info] |
Wikidata: | Q507727 [info] |
is based on: | Nothing, Part 14 |
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Recordings
Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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recordings | ||||
1971-01 – 1971-08 | Echoes (original stereo mix) | Pink Floyd | 23:32 | |
1971-01 – 1971-08 | Echoes | Pink Floyd | 20:22 | |
1971-05-15 | Return of the Son of Nothing (live, 1971-05-15: Crystal Palace Bowl, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:33 |
1971-05-15 – 1971-11-20 | Echoes, Parts 1 & 2 (live, 1970) | live | Pink Floyd | 17:04 |
1971-06-04 | The Return of the Son of Nothing (Echoes) (live, 1971-06-04: Philips Halle, Düsseldorf, Germany) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:44 |
1971-06-05 | Echoes (live, 1971‐06‐05: Sportspalast Berlin, West Berlin, Germany) | live | Pink Floyd | 22:59 |
1971-06-05 | Return of the Son of Nothing (Berlin 1971) (live, 1971-06-05: Berliner Sportpalast, West Berlin, West Germany) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:14 |
1971-06-05 | The Return of the Sun of Nothing (live, 1971-06-05: Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:14 |
1971-06-19 | The Return of the Son of Nothing | live | Pink Floyd | 24:03 |
1971-06-20 | Echoes (live, 1971-06-20: Palaeur Arena, Rome, Italy) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:04 |
1971-06-21 | Echoes (live, 1971-06-21: Pompei, Italy) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:54 |
1971-07-01 | Return of the Son of Nothing | live | Pink Floyd | 22:30 |
1971-07-01 | Return of the Son of Nothing (live, 1971-07-01: Internationale Musikforum, Ossiachersee, Congress Center Villach, Stiftshoff, Ossiach, Austria) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:01 |
1971-08-06 | Echoes (live, 1971-08-06: Hakone Aphrodite Festival, Hakone, Japan) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:03 |
1971-08-06 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | 7:06 |
1971-08-09 | Echoes (live, 1971-08-09: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:09 |
1971-09-18 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | 23:30 |
1971-09-18 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-18: Festival de Musique, Pavilion de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:23 |
1971-09-18 – 1971-09-19 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-18/19: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:52 |
1971-09-18 – 1971-09-19 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-18/19: Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:17 |
1971-09-23 | Echoes (live, 1971‐09‐23: K.B. Hallen, Frederiksberg, Denmark) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:51 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:25 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:17 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC, Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:59 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:03 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: In Concert, BBC Paris Cinema, London) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:28 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Studios, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:07 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 21:54 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:24 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 21:57 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:18 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:17 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 27:12 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (1971‐09‐30) (mono) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:37 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (mono) (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: 'Sound of the 70s', Paris Theatre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:45 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (Paris Cinema, 30th September, 1971) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:31 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (Peel Sessions, Paris Theatre, London) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC, Paris Cinema, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 27:00 |
1971-09-30 | Echoes (stereo) (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: 'Sound of the 70s', Paris Theatre, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:17 |
1971-10-04 | Echoes (live, 1971-10-04: bootleg from Live at Pompeii) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:56 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes (Live at Pompeii version) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:04 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes (live at Pompeii version, 2016 remix) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:56 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes (5.1 Audio remix) | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes (live at Pompeii) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:14 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:49 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:00 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii, Director’s Cut) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 18:48 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii, Original Concert Film version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:28 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (film mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:58 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:29 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:17 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (quad front speakers mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:56 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (quad rear speakers mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:56 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 1 (original mix) (live, 1971-10: Amphitheatre, Pompeii, Italy) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:58 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (quad front speakers mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:29 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:13 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (film mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:28 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 14:34 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live | Pink Floyd | 12:52 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii, Director’s Cut) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 14:35 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (quad rear speakers mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:30 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii, Original Concert Film version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 12:48 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:54 |
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07 | Echoes, Part 2 (original mix) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:20 |
1971-10-10 | Echoes (live, 1971-10-10: Great Hall, Bradford University, Bradford, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:53 |
1971-10-10 | Echoes (live, 1971‐10‐10: University of Bradford, Bradford, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:40 |
1971-10-16 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | 27:45 |
1971-10-17 | Echoes (live, 1971-10-17: Golden Hall, San Diego, CA, USA) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:01 |
1971-10-27 | Echoes (live, 1971-10-27: Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:04 |
1971-10 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1971-10 | Echoes, Part 1 (live, 1971-10: Amphitheatre of Pompeii, Pompeii, Italy) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:43 |
1971-10 | Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 11:28 |
1971-10 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 13:08 |
1971-10 | Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version) | live and partial | Pink Floyd | 12:48 |
1971-11-06 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1971-11-06 | Echoes (live, 1971-11-06: Emerson Gym, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Pink Floyd | 28:42 |
1971-11-06 | Echoes (Cleveland 1971) (live, 1971-11-06: Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Pink Floyd | 28:24 |
1971-11-10 | Echoes (live, 1971‐11‐10: Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC, Canada) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:06 |
1971-11-12 | Echoes (live, 1971-11-12: Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA, USA) | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1971-11-16 | Echoes (live 1971-11-16: Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington D.C., USA) | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1971 | Echoes (original 4.0 quad mix 1971) | Pink Floyd | 23:35 | |
1972-01-20 | Echoes (live, 1972-01-20: Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:31 |
1972-01-20 | Echoes (live, 1972-01-20: The Dome, Brighton) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:59 |
1972-01-21 | Echoes (live, 1972‐01‐21: The Guildhall, Portsmouth) | live | Pink Floyd | 29:28 |
1972-01-22 | Echoes (live, 1972-01-22: The Wintergardens, Bournemouth (second source)) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:29 |
1972-01-27 | Echoes (live, 1972-01-27: City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 23:07 |
1972-02-12 | Echoes (cut) (live, 1972-02-12: City Hall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 21:59 |
1972-02-17 | Echoes (live, 1972-02-17: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:55 |
1972-02-17 | Echoes (live, 1972‐02‐17: The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:59 |
1972-02-18 | Echoes (live, 1972-02-18: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 28:59 |
1972-02-19 | Echoes (live, 1972‐02‐19: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 26:34 |
1972-02-20 | Echoes / Encore Break (live, 1972-02-20: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:47 |
1972-03-06 | Echoes (live, 1972-03-06: Tokyo-To Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan) | live | Pink Floyd | 24:28 |
1972-03-06 | Echoes (live, 1972-03-06: 東京体育館, Tokyo, Japan) | live | Pink Floyd | 25:16 |
1972-03-06 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1972-03-07 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1972-03-08 | Echoes (live, 1972‐03‐08: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan) | live | Pink Floyd | 30:15 |
1972-03-08 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1972-03-09 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1972-03-09 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
1972-03-10 | Echoes | live | Pink Floyd | ?:?? |
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