Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

Interstellar Overdrive is a 12” single by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released for Record Store Day in April 2017 by Pink Floyd Records.

On Record Store Day – Saturday, April 22 2017 – Pink Floyd unveiled a new 12-inch single featuring a previously unreleased 1966 instrumental recording.

The mono single of “Interstellar Overdrive” is a one-sided 12-inch, 180-gram black vinyl release, which plays at 33 1/3 RPM. The packaged includes a fold-out poster and an A6 postcard featuring an image of the band taken during the recording of the debut single “Arnold Layne.”

Written and performed by Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, this 1966 version of “Interstellar Overdrive” clocks in at close to 15 minutes long. The original recording was made at the Thomson studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in November, 1966, before Pink Floyd signed to EMI. A different, shorter version of the composition subsequently appeared on the band’s debut long-player, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.  The images adorning the single artwork have been taken from Pink Floyd’s performance at UFO at the Blarney Club, London, on January 13, 1967.

This Limited Edition single sided 12” single of 4,000 copies is pressed in Europe on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.