Source: Good News Network
50 years ago today, Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette copy of the Pink Floyd LIVE album Delicate Sound Of Thunder four days after its release. Playing it while in orbit, the concert performance, which was also packaged as a video, made Pink Floyd the first rock band to be played in space.
David Gilmour and Nick Mason both attended the launch of the spacecraft and the cassette was still aboard three years later when Mir burned up on re-entry. WATCH a clip… (1988)Recorded during five nights at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York in 1988 during the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour (sans Roger Waters), fans call this one of the best live albums available from the band in any form—particularly its version of Comfortably Numb. The recording also includes the classic Floyd hits Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Time, Wish You Were Here, Us & Them, Money, Another Brick In…
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