{"id":490661,"date":"2019-09-28T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=892290"},"modified":"2019-09-28T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:02:58","slug":"hear-pink-floyds-unreleased-early-version-of-high-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-pink-floyds-unreleased-early-version-of-high-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Pink Floyd\u2019s Unreleased \u2018Early Version\u2019 of \u2018High Hopes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-85238849.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pink-floyd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pink-floyd\" data-tag=\"pink-floyd\">Pink Floyd<\/a> have shared an \u201cearly version\u201d of their epic <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/the-division-bell-187918\/\">Division Bell<\/a><\/em> closer \u201cHigh Hopes,\u201d one of the unreleased songs that features on the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pink-floyd-the-later-year-box-set-pulse-877966\/\">upcoming <em>The Later Years<\/em> box set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In its work-in-progress form, \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d is stripped of much of its atmosphere and instrumentation, focusing largely on David Gilmour\u2019s vocals. The lyrics also vary slightly from the finished version, while a different take on Gilmour\u2019s sky-scraping guitar solo is featured in the song\u2019s closing minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Later Years<\/em>, centered on Pink Floyd\u2019s post-Roger Waters output, is a 16-disc collection that boasts the Gilmour-led band\u2019s studio LP and live albums, concert films, unreleased rarities, live performances and more.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 13 hours of unreleased material on the 5 CDs\/6 Blu-rays\/5 DVDs set is an \u201cupdated\u201d&nbsp;<em>A Momentary Lapse of Reason<\/em>&nbsp;that includes the restoration of additional contributions from late keyboardist Richard Wright plus newly recorded drum tracks courtesy of Nick Mason in order to \u201crestore the creative balance between the three Pink Floyd members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Later Years<\/em>, due out November 29th, also includes concert films revolving around the band\u2019s 1989 Venice and 1990 Knebworth concerts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pink-floyd-unreleased-high-hopes-later-years-892290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd have shared an \u201cearly version\u201d of their epic Division Bell closer \u201cHigh Hopes,\u201d one of the unreleased songs that features on the band\u2019s upcoming The Later Years box set. In its work-in-progress form, \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d is stripped of much of its atmosphere and instrumentation, focusing largely on David Gilmour\u2019s vocals. The lyrics also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 16:56:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}