Pink Floyd
"Live 8", Hyde Park, London, UK
(dvb-s recording - ProShot DVD)



Track Details:

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. Breathe (Reprise)
4. Money
5. Wish You Were Here
6. Comfortably Numb
Lineage Details:

DVB Digital Satellite TV > PC DVB Card > HD (MPEG-2 TS)
Video: 720x576i 16:9 PAL MPEG-2, 3.8Mbps avg, 6.5Mbps peak (original broadcast bitstream)
Audio: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II (original broadcast bitstream)
DVD Format: 16:9 PAL with MPEG Audio.
Neither the video or the audio have been recompressed - the broadcast bitstream was simply "saved" to hard disk using a PC DVB card, cut and then used to author the DVD.

With the concert overrunning two and a half hours over its extended finish, the band didn't manage to hit the stage until around 11pm, but it was worth the wait. Many reports in the media attested to the fact that the Floyd, reunited for this one, special occasion with Roger Waters, were one of the bands that stole the show at Live 8.

Despite the late running of the show (which was to eventually finish at midnight last night), the band performed their complete rehearsed set of Breathe/Breathe Reprise, Money, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb. And what a performance!

The band were stripped back down to a basic line-up, with only the addition of Tim Renwick on guitar, lurking in the shadows, Dick Parry on sax for Money, and a backing singer during Comfortably Numb. UPDATE: On carefully analysing the BBC broadcast of their performance, Jon Carin can just about be seen, heavily to the rear of the stage, unlit, shrowded in smoke, playing keyboards during their set!

To see and hear the band back chiefly to their core unit was a sheer joy, and got even the non-Floyd fans in the audience applauding for more.

In one touching moment, during the introductory guitar work of Wish You Were Here, Roger said: "It's actually quite emotional, standing up here with these three guys after all these years. Standing to be counted with the rest of you. Anyway, we're doing this for everyone who's not here, particularly, of course for Syd.

NOT FOR TRADING - to be officially released

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