Roger Waters & Arthur C. Clarke

[Paul Vanezis]

Hi All.

Someone mentioned that on the night of the first moon landing, Roger Waters appeared in the television studio with Arthur C. Clarke.

I have no idea if this did take place and if it did, whether it was ITV or BBC.

Can anyone shed any light?

Cheers,

Paul

[Deleted]

Can you let us know what you find out about this one, Paul? Never heard of such a thing before but sounds like an interesting premise if it happened!

[Matthew North]

I think wht you are refering to is a documentary called What if its alll Green Chese, The Floyd played some music live in the studio for it, and has appeared on bootlegs as the song Moonhead, howeaver there are 2 different songs on bootlegs called Moonhead!

Matthew

[Deleted]

Does this exist only as an off-air bootleg then, Matt? Isn't the original show surviving (or even a "proper" copy of the music soundtrack residing with Floyd themselves)? I've never heard this myself but i've known of it for a long time and it sounds interesting.

[Matthew North]

I cant remember the name of the bootleg Cd that has this on, as i havent catalogued all my misc floys cds yet and i wont do till i move house, but its a pretty crappy sounding thing audio wise wit ha good but of 405 whistle all over it!

[Dan S]

I've asked before whether this still resides in the BBC archive but I've a feeling it doesn't.

I don't even know if Pink Floyd were seen, or just heard.

There's more than one recording of Moonhead. There's one of just the song that's pretty good quality, and theres another recording obviously done with a mic near the speaker (more like halfway across the room!) that captures some of the astronauts voices and stuff before the song starts. I don't recall either version having any whistle.