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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+12 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)
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.
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/32335 [info]
Songfacts:http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1214 [info]
Wikidata:Q507727 [info]
is based on:Nothing, Part 14

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1971-01 – 1971-08Echoes (original stereo mix)Pink Floyd23:32
1971-01 – 1971-08EchoesPink Floyd20:22
1971-05-15Return of the Son of Nothing (live, 1971-05-15: Crystal Palace Bowl, London, UK)livePink Floyd23:33
1971-05-15 – 1971-11-20Echoes, Parts 1 & 2 (live, 1970)livePink Floyd17:04
1971-06-04The Return of the Son of Nothing (Echoes) (live, 1971-06-04: Philips Halle, Düsseldorf, Germany)livePink Floyd23:44
1971-06-05Echoes (live, 1971‐06‐05: Sportspalast Berlin, West Berlin, Germany)livePink Floyd22:59
1971-06-05Return of the Son of Nothing (Berlin 1971) (live, 1971-06-05: Berliner Sportpalast, West Berlin, West Germany)livePink Floyd23:14
1971-06-05The Return of the Sun of Nothing (live, 1971-06-05: Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany)livePink Floyd24:14
1971-06-19The Return of the Son of NothinglivePink Floyd24:03
1971-06-20Echoes (live, 1971-06-20: Palaeur Arena, Rome, Italy)livePink Floyd24:04
1971-06-21Echoes (live, 1971-06-21: Pompei, Italy)livePink Floyd25:54
1971-07-01Return of the Son of NothinglivePink Floyd22:30
1971-07-01Return of the Son of Nothing (live, 1971-07-01: Internationale Musikforum, Ossiachersee, Congress Center Villach, Stiftshoff, Ossiach, Austria)livePink Floyd26:01
1971-08-06Echoes (live, 1971-08-06: Hakone Aphrodite Festival, Hakone, Japan)livePink Floyd23:03
1971-08-06EchoeslivePink Floyd7:06
1971-08-09Echoes (live, 1971-08-09: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan)livePink Floyd25:09
1971-09-18EchoeslivePink Floyd23:30
1971-09-18Echoes (live, 1971-09-18: Festival de Musique, Pavilion de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland)livePink Floyd23:23
1971-09-18 – 1971-09-19Echoes (live, 1971-09-18/19: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland)livePink Floyd24:52
1971-09-18 – 1971-09-19Echoes (live, 1971-09-18/19: Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland)livePink Floyd24:17
1971-09-23Echoes (live, 1971‐09‐23: K.B. Hallen, Frederiksberg, Denmark)livePink Floyd23:51
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:25
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:17
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC, Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd25:59
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK)livePink Floyd25:03
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: In Concert, BBC Paris Cinema, London)livePink Floyd25:28
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Studios, London, UK)livePink Floyd24:07
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd21:54
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd23:24
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: Paris Theatre, London, UK)livePink Floyd21:57
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd24:18
1971-09-30Echoes (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd25:17
1971-09-30Echoes (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd27:12
1971-09-30Echoes (1971‐09‐30) (mono) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:37
1971-09-30Echoes (mono) (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: 'Sound of the 70s', Paris Theatre, London, UK)livePink Floyd25:45
1971-09-30Echoes (Paris Cinema, 30th September, 1971)livePink Floyd26:31
1971-09-30Echoes (Peel Sessions, Paris Theatre, London) (live, 1971-09-30: BBC, Paris Cinema, London, UK)livePink Floyd27:00
1971-09-30Echoes (stereo) (1971-09-30) (live, 1971-09-30: 'Sound of the 70s', Paris Theatre, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:17
1971-10-04Echoes (live, 1971-10-04: bootleg from Live at Pompeii)livePink Floyd25:56
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes (Live at Pompeii version)livePink Floyd24:04
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes (live at Pompeii version, 2016 remix)livePink Floyd24:56
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes (5.1 Audio remix)livePink Floyd?:??
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes (live at Pompeii)livePink Floyd26:14
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd11:49
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd11:00
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii, Director’s Cut)live and partialPink Floyd18:48
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii, Original Concert Film version)live and partialPink Floyd11:28
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (film mix)live and partialPink Floyd11:58
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd11:29
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd13:17
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (quad front speakers mix)live and partialPink Floyd11:56
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (quad rear speakers mix)live and partialPink Floyd11:56
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 1 (original mix) (live, 1971-10: Amphitheatre, Pompeii, Italy)live and partialPink Floyd11:58
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (quad front speakers mix)live and partialPink Floyd13:29
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd13:13
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (film mix)live and partialPink Floyd13:28
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd14:34
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)livePink Floyd12:52
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii, Director’s Cut)live and partialPink Floyd14:35
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (quad rear speakers mix)live and partialPink Floyd13:30
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii, Original Concert Film version)live and partialPink Floyd12:48
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd13:54
1971-10-04 – 1971-10-07Echoes, Part 2 (original mix)live and partialPink Floyd13:20
1971-10-10Echoes (live, 1971-10-10: Great Hall, Bradford University, Bradford, UK)livePink Floyd23:53
1971-10-10Echoes (live, 1971‐10‐10: University of Bradford, Bradford, UK)livePink Floyd23:40
1971-10-16EchoeslivePink Floyd27:45
1971-10-17Echoes (live, 1971-10-17: Golden Hall, San Diego, CA, USA)livePink Floyd24:01
1971-10-27Echoes (live, 1971-10-27: Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA)livePink Floyd25:04
1971-10Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd?:??
1971-10Echoes, Part 1 (live, 1971-10: Amphitheatre of Pompeii, Pompeii, Italy)live and partialPink Floyd11:43
1971-10Echoes, Part 1 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd11:28
1971-10Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd13:08
1971-10Echoes, Part 2 (Live at Pompeii version)live and partialPink Floyd12:48
1971-11-06EchoeslivePink Floyd?:??
1971-11-06Echoes (live, 1971-11-06: Emerson Gym, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)livePink Floyd28:42
1971-11-06Echoes (Cleveland 1971) (live, 1971-11-06: Cleveland, OH, USA)livePink Floyd28:24
1971-11-10Echoes (live, 1971‐11‐10: Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC, Canada)livePink Floyd26:06
1971-11-12Echoes (live, 1971-11-12: Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA, USA)livePink Floyd?:??
1971-11-16Echoes (live 1971-11-16: Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington D.C., USA)livePink Floyd?:??
1971Echoes (original 4.0 quad mix 1971)Pink Floyd23:35
1972-01-20Echoes (live, 1972-01-20: Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK)livePink Floyd26:31
1972-01-20Echoes (live, 1972-01-20: The Dome, Brighton)livePink Floyd25:59
1972-01-21Echoes (live, 1972‐01‐21: The Guildhall, Portsmouth)livePink Floyd29:28
1972-01-22Echoes (live, 1972-01-22: The Wintergardens, Bournemouth (second source))livePink Floyd25:29
1972-01-27Echoes (live, 1972-01-27: City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)livePink Floyd23:07
1972-02-12Echoes (cut) (live, 1972-02-12: City Hall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK)livePink Floyd21:59
1972-02-17Echoes (live, 1972-02-17: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:55
1972-02-17Echoes (live, 1972‐02‐17: The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London)livePink Floyd26:59
1972-02-18Echoes (live, 1972-02-18: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK)livePink Floyd28:59
1972-02-19Echoes (live, 1972‐02‐19: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK)livePink Floyd26:34
1972-02-20Echoes / Encore Break (live, 1972-02-20: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK)livePink Floyd25:47
1972-03-06Echoes (live, 1972-03-06: Tokyo-To Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan)livePink Floyd24:28
1972-03-06Echoes (live, 1972-03-06: 東京体育館, Tokyo, Japan)livePink Floyd25:16
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1972-03-08Echoes (live, 1972‐03‐08: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan)livePink Floyd30:15
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1972-03-09EchoeslivePink Floyd?:??
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