The Early Years 1965β1972 | ||||
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Box set by | ||||
Released | 11 November 2016 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1964β1972, 1974 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock, experimental rock | |||
Length | 29:04:36 (1744:36 in Minutes) | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Pink Floyd Records | |||
Producer |
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Pink Floyd chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Early Years 1967β1972 | ||||
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The Early Years 1965β1972 is a box set that compiles the early work of the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 11 November 2016. It was released by Pink Floyd Records with distribution held by Warner Music for the UK and Europe and Sony Music for the rest of the world.
The box set comprises seven volumes over 33 discs, including CDs, DVDs, BDs, vinyl records, plus memorabilia including photos, posters and tour programmes. It contains early non-album singles plus unreleased studio and live recordings. Although Volumes 1β6 have been available individually since 24 March 2017, Volume 7 β 1967β1972: Continu/ation, remains exclusive to the set. A two-CD compilation, The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation, was also released. [2]
Due to an error, a CD edition of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was also included in the box set in place of the 2016 mix of Obscured by Clouds which was placed inside the set in a cardboard wallet at the last moment. The standalone edition of 1972: Obfusc/ation contains both CDs as standard.
In 2019, a number of Blu-ray discs in the set began to fail due to manufacturing defects. [3] [4] Warner Music and Pink Floyd announced a recall programme on 1 October 2019, which ran until 1 January 2020. [4]
Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β studio recordings from 1965β1967 1965 recordings:
1966β1967 recordings:
Tracks 1β6 were recorded as The Tea Set around Christmas 1964. [5] Tracks 1β11 are mono.
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Disc two (CD) β Live in Stockholm and John Latham sessions Live in Stockholm 1967:
Live in Stockholm has barely audible vocals, rendering the performance almost completely instrumental. It was mastered for this release with the stereo channels out of phase and a silent gap mistakenly inserted. The original recording is ambient, so it is of lower fidelity than a typical live release. [6] John Latham studio recordings 1967:
The John Latham recordings are of one long extended improvisational piece split across nine tracks, it is similar to that of the extended improvisation often played during the middle section of " Interstellar Overdrive". The piece was recorded as the soundtrack for Latham's 1962 film Speak. [7] [8] Tracks 1β8 recorded live 10 September 1967 at Gyllene Cirkeln,
Stockholm, Sweden. |
Disc three (DVD / Blu-ray)
Personnel:
The Tea Set (The 1965 recordings):
with:
Production:
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Pink Floyd (1966 onwards):
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Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β studio recordings from 1968; BBC Sessions from 1968 Tracks taken from the "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" 7-inch singles:
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 22 August 1968:
BBC Radio Session, 25 June 1968
BBC Radio Session, 2 December 1968
Tracks 5β13 previously unreleased. Disc two (DVD / Blu-ray)
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|
Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β More non-album tracks, BBC sessions and live in Amsterdam More non-album tracks:
Other tracks:
BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969:
Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969:
Tracks 1β4; 6β14 previously unreleased. |
Disc two (CD) β The Man and The Journey live Amsterdam, 17 September 1969 Part 1, The Man:
Part 2, The Journey:
Tracks 1β15 previously unreleased. |
Disc three (DVD/Blu-ray)
Personnel: Pink Floyd
with
Track listing:
Disc One (CD)
BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970:
Tracks 1β7 previously unreleased. Disc Two (CD) Previously unreleased tracks from the Zabriskie Point soundtrack recordings:
Other tracks:
Tracks 1β17 previously unreleased. Disc Three (DVD)
Audio only:
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Disc Four (DVD)
Disc Five (Blu-Ray)
Audio only:
After the release of The Early Years 1965β1972 footage was found of the band performing "Astronomy Domine" at KQED, [9] but its discovery came too late for inclusion in the box. KQED were subsequently granted permission to publish the footage of "Astronomy Domine" [9] [10] |
Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc One (CD)
BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971:
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Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Audio only:
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Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc One (CD) Obscured by Clouds 2016 mix
This CD was accidentally replaced by the Live at Pompeii stereo CD before shipping. This disc actually comes packaged outside the set in a separate white slipcase, on the reverse of which it says "Replacement CD disc for Obfusc/ation [...] (Stereo 2016 mix of Pink Floyd 'Live at Pompeii' CD supplied in error)" The standalone edition of this volume, however, contains Live at Pompeii as CD2 of the set. [12] |
Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
This version of Live at Pompeii is notable for excluding "Mademoiselle Nobs", an instrumental version of the song "Seamus" found on the original film and the 2003 DVD, and for bridging "Echoes" which was originally performed in two parts for the film. |
Personnel:
This volume, unlike Volumes 1β6, is exclusive to the box set and is not yet available separately as a standalone edition. This volume is notable for containing three feature length films: The Committee, More and La VallΓ©e and, despite the volume's subtitle, a live recording of "Echoes" from 1974.
Track listing:
Disc One (CD) BBC Radio Session, 25 September 1967:
BBC Radio Session, 20 December 1967:
Other tracks:
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Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Disc Three (DVD/Blu-Ray)
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Personnel: Pink Floyd
with
On 5 November 2016 Pink Floyd announced, via their official Facebook page, that an extra CD would now be included in the set β Live at Pompeii. [13] [14] The Pompeii performance had never been officially released on CD before. The Live at Pompeii CD was accidentally included in the 1972: Obfusc/ation set instead of the 2016 mix of the album Obscured by Clouds. Therefore, the 2016 Obscured by Clouds CD was included separately in a white slipcase; [14] on the front of which is written "Obscured by Clouds 2016 remix" and on the reverse: "Replacement CD disc for Obfusc/ation [...] (Stereo 2016 mix of Pink Floyd 'Live at Pompeii' CD supplied in error)". Warner Music has, to date, refused to provide replacement discs where copies of Obscured by Clouds were not included in customers' box sets (all Sony Music issues had the replacement CDs). When the 1972: Obfusc/ation was released as a standalone set in March 2017, the Live at Pompeii CD was included as Disc 2 of the set. [12] The Live at Pompeii CD track listing is as follows:
Arnold Layne
Point Me at the Sky
It Would Be So Nice
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See Emily Play
Apples and Oranges
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The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation | |
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Compilation album by | |
Released | 11 November 2016 |
Recorded | 1967β1972 |
Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock, experimental rock |
Length | 112 min |
Label | Pink Floyd Records |
Producer | Audio: Pink Floyd, Joe Boyd, Norman Smith, Jeff Griffin |
Singles from Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967β1972 | |
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [15] |
The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation is a 2-disc highlights compilation of the box set The Early Years 1965β1972 which was released on 11 November 2016. [2]
Disc one
Disc two
Weekly chartsThe Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation
|
Year-end charts
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 97/100 [38] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [39] |
Classic Rock | [42] |
The Guardian | [41] |
The Irish Times | [48] |
Louder Sound | [46] |
Mojo | [45] |
Pitchfork | 8.8/10 [43] |
Record Collector | [40] |
RTΓ.ie | 10/10 [47] |
Uncut | 10/10 [44] |
The Early Years 1965β1972 has a score of a 97 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 8 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [38] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called it "a deep, multi-tiered portrait of the years when Pink Floyd were fumbling around trying to find their voice". He praised the tracks " Vegetable Man", "In the Beechwoods", the band's collaboration with John Latham, the soundtracks they recorded for The Committee and Zabriskie Point, and "Moonhead". "Because so much of this music is raw β it's alternately live, unfinished, and improvisatory β the box underscores how Pink Floyd were an underground band right up until Dark Side", he concludes. "Decades later, these recordings still feel boundless: this was music made without a destination in mind and the journey remains thrilling." [39]
Daryl Easlea of Record Collector described the box-set as "the sonic equivalent to background reading and extensive footnotes for their remarkable body of recorded work". He describes the band's earliest material from 1965 as "showcasing what a fabulous beat band they initially were. A quick grin is not something you associate with the Floyd, but these five early tracks from 1965 are tremendous fun." He also praised the John Peel concert from 1971 as being "a real treat, with a 14-minute-long Fat Old Sun displaying their improvisational might. A lengthy capture of Embryo demonstrates their glacial grandeur at its finest." He also singles out "the 20 December 1967 BBC session, just a month before Barrettβs departure" as "a revelation". [40]
Pitchfork named awarded the box set the week's "Best New Reissue". Jesse Jarnow wrote that "[a]s career periods go, the seven years of Pink Floydβs Early Years donβt exactly match other intense eras of classic rock creativity, like Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1968 or the Beatles from 1962 to 1969 [...] this set illustrates something about both Pink Floydβs own path and the rewards of resilience." He writes that "in the modern age of oversized vault-clearing and copyright-protecting box sets, there is something resoundingly human about The Early Years, which only makes the achievements more extraordinary". [43]
Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the compilation as an "exhaustive document" that contains "some tantalising glimpses of the different paths they could have taken". He praised some of the material (noting, for example, the influence their "cyclical, hypnotic repetitions and weird, very un-rock-like atmosphere" of early improvisations like " Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" had on "nascent" krautrock bands as well as their role in the development of space rock) but criticized the superfluousness of some of it (pointing out that the box-set contains "15 versions of Careful With That Axe, Eugene" and writing: "there comes a point where you suspect that even the most ardent fan of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [...] will heave a fairly weary sigh as its three-note bassline starts up for the umpteenth time"). [41]
Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank |
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Medium | US | Best 100 (Or So) Reissues Of 2016 | 1 [49] |
Paste | US | The 10 Best Box Sets of 2016 | 7 [50] |
Rolling Stone | US | 10 Best Reissues of 2016 | 1 [51] |
Uncut | UK | The Best Reissue Albums Of 2016 β The Uncut Top 30 | 26 [52] |
Allmusic | US | Favorite Reissues and Compilations | - [53] |
Toronto Sun | Canada | 2016βs most essential music box sets: Pink Floyd, Dylan, Led Zep and more | 1 [54] |
Metacritic | US | Best-Reviewed Reissues, Box Sets, And Compilations Of 2016 | 1 [55] |
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The Early Years 1965β1972 | ||||
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Box set by | ||||
Released | 11 November 2016 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1964β1972, 1974 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock, experimental rock | |||
Length | 29:04:36 (1744:36 in Minutes) | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Pink Floyd Records | |||
Producer |
| |||
Pink Floyd chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from The Early Years 1967β1972 | ||||
|
The Early Years 1965β1972 is a box set that compiles the early work of the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 11 November 2016. It was released by Pink Floyd Records with distribution held by Warner Music for the UK and Europe and Sony Music for the rest of the world.
The box set comprises seven volumes over 33 discs, including CDs, DVDs, BDs, vinyl records, plus memorabilia including photos, posters and tour programmes. It contains early non-album singles plus unreleased studio and live recordings. Although Volumes 1β6 have been available individually since 24 March 2017, Volume 7 β 1967β1972: Continu/ation, remains exclusive to the set. A two-CD compilation, The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation, was also released. [2]
Due to an error, a CD edition of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was also included in the box set in place of the 2016 mix of Obscured by Clouds which was placed inside the set in a cardboard wallet at the last moment. The standalone edition of 1972: Obfusc/ation contains both CDs as standard.
In 2019, a number of Blu-ray discs in the set began to fail due to manufacturing defects. [3] [4] Warner Music and Pink Floyd announced a recall programme on 1 October 2019, which ran until 1 January 2020. [4]
Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β studio recordings from 1965β1967 1965 recordings:
1966β1967 recordings:
Tracks 1β6 were recorded as The Tea Set around Christmas 1964. [5] Tracks 1β11 are mono.
|
Disc two (CD) β Live in Stockholm and John Latham sessions Live in Stockholm 1967:
Live in Stockholm has barely audible vocals, rendering the performance almost completely instrumental. It was mastered for this release with the stereo channels out of phase and a silent gap mistakenly inserted. The original recording is ambient, so it is of lower fidelity than a typical live release. [6] John Latham studio recordings 1967:
The John Latham recordings are of one long extended improvisational piece split across nine tracks, it is similar to that of the extended improvisation often played during the middle section of " Interstellar Overdrive". The piece was recorded as the soundtrack for Latham's 1962 film Speak. [7] [8] Tracks 1β8 recorded live 10 September 1967 at Gyllene Cirkeln,
Stockholm, Sweden. |
Disc three (DVD / Blu-ray)
Personnel:
The Tea Set (The 1965 recordings):
with:
Production:
|
Pink Floyd (1966 onwards):
|
Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β studio recordings from 1968; BBC Sessions from 1968 Tracks taken from the "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" 7-inch singles:
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 22 August 1968:
BBC Radio Session, 25 June 1968
BBC Radio Session, 2 December 1968
Tracks 5β13 previously unreleased. Disc two (DVD / Blu-ray)
|
|
Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc one (CD) β More non-album tracks, BBC sessions and live in Amsterdam More non-album tracks:
Other tracks:
BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969:
Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969:
Tracks 1β4; 6β14 previously unreleased. |
Disc two (CD) β The Man and The Journey live Amsterdam, 17 September 1969 Part 1, The Man:
Part 2, The Journey:
Tracks 1β15 previously unreleased. |
Disc three (DVD/Blu-ray)
Personnel: Pink Floyd
with
Track listing:
Disc One (CD)
BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970:
Tracks 1β7 previously unreleased. Disc Two (CD) Previously unreleased tracks from the Zabriskie Point soundtrack recordings:
Other tracks:
Tracks 1β17 previously unreleased. Disc Three (DVD)
Audio only:
|
Disc Four (DVD)
Disc Five (Blu-Ray)
Audio only:
After the release of The Early Years 1965β1972 footage was found of the band performing "Astronomy Domine" at KQED, [9] but its discovery came too late for inclusion in the box. KQED were subsequently granted permission to publish the footage of "Astronomy Domine" [9] [10] |
Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc One (CD)
BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971:
|
Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Audio only:
|
Personnel:
with:
Track listing:
Disc One (CD) Obscured by Clouds 2016 mix
This CD was accidentally replaced by the Live at Pompeii stereo CD before shipping. This disc actually comes packaged outside the set in a separate white slipcase, on the reverse of which it says "Replacement CD disc for Obfusc/ation [...] (Stereo 2016 mix of Pink Floyd 'Live at Pompeii' CD supplied in error)" The standalone edition of this volume, however, contains Live at Pompeii as CD2 of the set. [12] |
Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
This version of Live at Pompeii is notable for excluding "Mademoiselle Nobs", an instrumental version of the song "Seamus" found on the original film and the 2003 DVD, and for bridging "Echoes" which was originally performed in two parts for the film. |
Personnel:
This volume, unlike Volumes 1β6, is exclusive to the box set and is not yet available separately as a standalone edition. This volume is notable for containing three feature length films: The Committee, More and La VallΓ©e and, despite the volume's subtitle, a live recording of "Echoes" from 1974.
Track listing:
Disc One (CD) BBC Radio Session, 25 September 1967:
BBC Radio Session, 20 December 1967:
Other tracks:
|
Disc Two (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Disc Three (DVD/Blu-Ray)
|
Personnel: Pink Floyd
with
On 5 November 2016 Pink Floyd announced, via their official Facebook page, that an extra CD would now be included in the set β Live at Pompeii. [13] [14] The Pompeii performance had never been officially released on CD before. The Live at Pompeii CD was accidentally included in the 1972: Obfusc/ation set instead of the 2016 mix of the album Obscured by Clouds. Therefore, the 2016 Obscured by Clouds CD was included separately in a white slipcase; [14] on the front of which is written "Obscured by Clouds 2016 remix" and on the reverse: "Replacement CD disc for Obfusc/ation [...] (Stereo 2016 mix of Pink Floyd 'Live at Pompeii' CD supplied in error)". Warner Music has, to date, refused to provide replacement discs where copies of Obscured by Clouds were not included in customers' box sets (all Sony Music issues had the replacement CDs). When the 1972: Obfusc/ation was released as a standalone set in March 2017, the Live at Pompeii CD was included as Disc 2 of the set. [12] The Live at Pompeii CD track listing is as follows:
Arnold Layne
Point Me at the Sky
It Would Be So Nice
|
See Emily Play
Apples and Oranges
|
The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation | |
---|---|
Compilation album by | |
Released | 11 November 2016 |
Recorded | 1967β1972 |
Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock, experimental rock |
Length | 112 min |
Label | Pink Floyd Records |
Producer | Audio: Pink Floyd, Joe Boyd, Norman Smith, Jeff Griffin |
Singles from Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967β1972 | |
|
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [15] |
The Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation is a 2-disc highlights compilation of the box set The Early Years 1965β1972 which was released on 11 November 2016. [2]
Disc one
Disc two
Weekly chartsThe Early Years 1967β1972: Cre/ation
|
Year-end charts
|
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 97/100 [38] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [39] |
Classic Rock | [42] |
The Guardian | [41] |
The Irish Times | [48] |
Louder Sound | [46] |
Mojo | [45] |
Pitchfork | 8.8/10 [43] |
Record Collector | [40] |
RTΓ.ie | 10/10 [47] |
Uncut | 10/10 [44] |
The Early Years 1965β1972 has a score of a 97 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 8 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [38] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called it "a deep, multi-tiered portrait of the years when Pink Floyd were fumbling around trying to find their voice". He praised the tracks " Vegetable Man", "In the Beechwoods", the band's collaboration with John Latham, the soundtracks they recorded for The Committee and Zabriskie Point, and "Moonhead". "Because so much of this music is raw β it's alternately live, unfinished, and improvisatory β the box underscores how Pink Floyd were an underground band right up until Dark Side", he concludes. "Decades later, these recordings still feel boundless: this was music made without a destination in mind and the journey remains thrilling." [39]
Daryl Easlea of Record Collector described the box-set as "the sonic equivalent to background reading and extensive footnotes for their remarkable body of recorded work". He describes the band's earliest material from 1965 as "showcasing what a fabulous beat band they initially were. A quick grin is not something you associate with the Floyd, but these five early tracks from 1965 are tremendous fun." He also praised the John Peel concert from 1971 as being "a real treat, with a 14-minute-long Fat Old Sun displaying their improvisational might. A lengthy capture of Embryo demonstrates their glacial grandeur at its finest." He also singles out "the 20 December 1967 BBC session, just a month before Barrettβs departure" as "a revelation". [40]
Pitchfork named awarded the box set the week's "Best New Reissue". Jesse Jarnow wrote that "[a]s career periods go, the seven years of Pink Floydβs Early Years donβt exactly match other intense eras of classic rock creativity, like Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1968 or the Beatles from 1962 to 1969 [...] this set illustrates something about both Pink Floydβs own path and the rewards of resilience." He writes that "in the modern age of oversized vault-clearing and copyright-protecting box sets, there is something resoundingly human about The Early Years, which only makes the achievements more extraordinary". [43]
Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the compilation as an "exhaustive document" that contains "some tantalising glimpses of the different paths they could have taken". He praised some of the material (noting, for example, the influence their "cyclical, hypnotic repetitions and weird, very un-rock-like atmosphere" of early improvisations like " Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" had on "nascent" krautrock bands as well as their role in the development of space rock) but criticized the superfluousness of some of it (pointing out that the box-set contains "15 versions of Careful With That Axe, Eugene" and writing: "there comes a point where you suspect that even the most ardent fan of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [...] will heave a fairly weary sigh as its three-note bassline starts up for the umpteenth time"). [41]
Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank |
---|---|---|---|
Medium | US | Best 100 (Or So) Reissues Of 2016 | 1 [49] |
Paste | US | The 10 Best Box Sets of 2016 | 7 [50] |
Rolling Stone | US | 10 Best Reissues of 2016 | 1 [51] |
Uncut | UK | The Best Reissue Albums Of 2016 β The Uncut Top 30 | 26 [52] |
Allmusic | US | Favorite Reissues and Compilations | - [53] |
Toronto Sun | Canada | 2016βs most essential music box sets: Pink Floyd, Dylan, Led Zep and more | 1 [54] |
Metacritic | US | Best-Reviewed Reissues, Box Sets, And Compilations Of 2016 | 1 [55] |
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After months of negotiations, KQED has been granted the right to exclusively premiere [...] one of those songs, "Astronomy Domine."
Not included [in The Early Years 1965β1972] was the band's rendition of "Astronomy Domine," which KQED was given permission to publish.
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