VIDEO: Pink Floyd: Journey To The Dark Side Of The Moon

10:00 AM GMT 24/08/2011

To celebrate MOJO's new Pink Floyd tribute issue, we thought we'd look into the band's history to plot their course from Brit-psych favourites to pioneers of the spaced-out concept album and on to becoming one of the biggest bands on the planet.

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

By the time the band began recording their second album, Syd Barrett's psychedelic whimsy had taken a back seat. Floyd began moving in a new, expansive direction exemplified by this hypnotic mantra from Roger Waters. Ambient Floyd starts here.

Let There Be More Light

Another Waters creation from A Saucerful Of Secrets performed here on French TV in 1968. Note the grooving host top left.

Cymbaline

"Apprehension creeping/Like a tube train up your spine". Taken from More - the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's 1969 hippy movie - Cymbaline is an early example of Floyd journeying into the cosmos with anthemic choruses and mercurial Gilmour guitars.

Green Is The Colour (live 1970)

A celestial pop cut from More performed live in 1970.

Grantchester Meadows

Featured on the second side of Ummagumma - the first record to be released on EMI's prog subsidiary Harvest - Waters' bucolic hymn, replete with bird-chirping effects, evokes the band's lazy, hazy days spent in Cambridge.

Rare outtake

Originally destined for Ummagumma, this unfinished demo was a Floyd live staple throughout 1970 and '71.

Atom Heart Mother (live in St Tropez)

Assembled during rehearsals, honed and bolstered by experimental arranger Ron Geesin and recorded in 1970, Atom Heart Mother took the band to the top of the UK charts. At its, er, heart was the 23-minute title track. Take your pick between the live in St Tropez clip above or the live in Hamburg clip here.

One Of These Days

The opening track from 1972's Meddle is an ensemble tour de force, but in this clip taken from Floyd's legendary Pompeii concert it's a decidedly 'having it' Nick Mason who really stands out. A space boogie par excellence.

Echoes

This glorious epic has been acknowledged by the band as a definite turning point. "Thematically, lyrically and musically, and in terms of its construction," said Roger Waters, "it was a foretaste of what was to come."

In the studio recording Echoes