Green is the color

"Green is the Color" was one of Pink Floyd's main concert compositions from 1969 until mid- 1971 . Green is the Color, seamlessly transitioning to Careful With That Ax, Eugene, was performed by the band at BBC Radio 1 at the time of their last recording in May 1969, about two months before the release of the soundtrack More ^[6] . Also, the song was performed during the concert program "In Concert" in 1970 ^{[4] [7]} .

For the first time, Green is the Color, entitled The Beginning, was performed as part of The Journey Suite at the premiere of The Man and The Journey concert program on April 14, 1969 in London at the . In the same month, April 26, “Green is the Color” was already performed as a separate song at the Light & Sound Concert festival in Bromley ^[8] . On October 11th, “Green is the Color” was performed at the Internationales Essener Pop & Blues festival in Essen, Germany (in addition to Pink Floyd, this festival was also presented by artists such as Fleetwood Mac , The Pretty Things , Yes , Muddy Waters , Alexis Corner , The Nice and Deep Purple ). On October 25, the song was performed at the Actuel Pop and Jazz Festival in the Belgian city of Amougies ^[9] . On December 6, “Green is the Color” was included in the group’s concert numbers at the progressive music festival in the Welsh city of Talbot ^[10] . On January 23, 1970, the song was performed in Paris at the Theater des Champs Elysées (“Theater des Champs-Elysées”) ^[11] . In April-May 1970, the song was included in the Pink Floyd concert program during a North American tour (on April 28, a concert including the performance of “Green is the Color” was shot and shown on KQED TV on San Francisco) ^[12] . On August 8, the song was performed at the St. Tropez music festival (a fragment of the concert with the performance of "Green is the Color" was shown on October 24 on the French television channel ORTF2 ) ^[13] . “Green is the Color” was performed during a North American tour in October and during a European tour in November 1970 (including November 6 at the Concertgebau Hall in Amsterdam and November 21 at the Super Pop 70 Music Festival in Casino Montreux in Switzerland ) ^{[14 ]} . "Green is the Color" was performed during the Japanese tour, including on August 6 and 7, 1971 at the Hakone Aphrodite festival (Hakone Open Air Festival) ^[15]

In the movie “More”, the passage “Green is the Color” sounds less than a minute. Before the song begins, the nude protagonists sunbathe on a rock by the sea, Stefan tells Estella about young people from Calcutta who worship the sun, who sit and look at it until they are blinded, after which they die a year later. Then there are shots in which, to the sound of the song "Green is the Color," Estella, dressed in a white dress, dances, and Stefan sits on a bed in the courtyard by the house on the seashore. The main characters lie on the bed and on the line “sunlight in her eyes ...” the song breaks off.

• David Gilmore - acoustic guitar, vocals;
• Richard Wright - piano, Farfis organ;
• Roger Waters - bass;
• Nick Mason - drums.

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Sources

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2. Shaffner, Nicholas. Saucer full of miracles. Odyssey Pink Floyd = Saucerful of Secrets. The Pink Floyd Odyssey. - M .: Publishing house of Sergey Kozlov, 1998. - ISBN 5-901013-01-8 .
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