Last Updated on 27 January 2026 by Massimo M.
On the occasion of the celebrations of 50 years since the release of Pink Floyd’s album “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, “Live at Wembley 1974” was released on 24 March 2023
This is an engaging live version of their The Dark Side of the Moon, recorded in 1974.
To be honest Live at Wembley 1974 is not really new because it is in fact the entire performance of “The Dark Side Of The Moon” professionally recorded live at Wembley Arena in London on 16 November 1974 and broadcast by BBC Radio One Saturday 11 January 1975.
The recording of that program has been replicated several times on bootlegs, to the delight of collectors and completionists of the band. For the official publication of this live performance we will have to wait until September 2011 when it will appear on the market in two particular versions of “The Dark Side Of The Moon”: the “Immersion” box and the double CD “Experience Edition” which included both the 1973 studio version and the 1974 live version.
The ‘new’ “Live at Wembley 1974”, published in March 2023, proposes the same version officially published in 2011, thus giving those who had not purchased the 2011 editions the opportunity to catch up. The 2023 version is available both as a single release and as part of the “The Dark Side Of The Moon – 50 years” box set.
These two releases have the particularity of offering an alternative cover of “Dark Side”, created starting from the graphic layout in pencil on a yellowed white background designed in 1972 by George Hardie of Hipgnosis, which shows the coloring indications of the various partitions. Even the inside of the cover follows the external graphics, proposing the graphic indications of 1973, so we will have the text in black on a light background, the exact opposite of what the original album offered.
Two posters have been inserted inside the album: one reproduces the caricature of Gerald Scarfe with the four Floyds, so to speak the one contained in the winter 1974 tour program with the addition of the English tour dates, the other poster reproduces a still of the animation of “Time”, signed by director Ian Emes and used by the band on stage.
The labels of both the vinyl and the CD reflect the theme of the cover, also offering a light background and black writing.
“Live at Wembley 1974” is the album that was missing in the band’s discography, the live album that should have already been released in the period between “Dark Side” and “Wish You Were Here” and which today finally finds space in the band’s substantial discography.
A live album that does justice to Pink Floyd of that period and their ability to bring to the stage an album that was complicated to perform live: they succeeded thanks to the many sound effects recorded on tape, which the technicians inserted during their performances with a crazy precision and synchrony.
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