The latest news articles from Billboard Magazine, including reviews, business, pop, hiphop, rock, dance, country and more. Echoes by Pink Floyd Songfacts. This song is 2. 3 minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the album. The song evolved out of Pink Floyds live shows. According to Shiloh Noones Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear, Pink Floyd introduced a new piece of music at the Crystal Palace Garden party entitled Return of the Sun of Nothing, said by the band to be a joke about comic books and Godzilla type movie sequels, which developed into Echoes about 6 months later. The song was a homage to the minimalist composer Terry Riley. In an interview with Rolling Stone Roger Waters said he was attempting to describe The potential that human beings have for recognizing each others humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy. This was originally called Return To The Sun Of Nothing. Who Killed Martin Luther King? Full Movie Online Free. The band got the idea for this when Rick Wright played a single note on his keyboard, and Roger Waters got the idea to record it into a microphone attached to a Leslie speaker, which created a swirling effect. At this stage of their career, Pink Floyd wrote most of their songs separately. This was the first one in a while that they wrote together. If you noticed something eerily familiar while watching Phantom of the Opera, you may have picked up the vibe of this song. Roger Waters sure did. Watch Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here Streaming' title='Watch Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here Streaming' />The beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes, he told Q magazine. Its the same time signature its 1. Rick Wright told Mojo magazine December 2. He explained The whole piano thing at the beginning and the chord structure is mine, so I had a large part in writing that. But its credited to other people of course. Roger obviously wrote the lyrics. The band allowed filmmaker George Grenough to use this in one of his surfing movies. The band used scenes from the movie when they played this on their 1. A year or two after the release of 2. A Space Odyssey, Pink Floyd was working on Meddle. The ending part of the movie is 2. Play the song while watching the end sequence of the movie and enjoy. On August 2. 4, 7. A. D., the Mt. Vesuvius volcano erupted and destroyed the city of Pompeii. Approximately 1,9. Pink Floyd played Echoes parts I and II in the citys ancient amphitheater. No crowd was present, but the concert was recorded on film. Echoes was the title of Pink Floyds 2. Best Of collection. Wright revealed to Mojo that the wind section after the songs intro was Roger Waters with a slide on his bass. Also David Gilmours seagull sound was a mistake. He explained about the latter One of the roadies had plugged his wah wah pedal in back to front, which created this huge wall of feedback. He played around with that and created this beautiful sound. The underwater oceanologist Jacques Cousteau played this during his Caribbean escapades.