Antonioni's rejection of their Zabriskie Point score gave Pink Floyd their next decade.

Yes, it had a huge influence — mostly because the director hated most of what they wrote. Pink Floyd recorded hours of music for the film. Antonioni used maybe ten minutes. The rest was shelved.

That rejected material didn’t stay on the shelf. Riffs, chord progressions, and whole passages got reworked into Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, and eventually The Dark Side of the Moon. “Us and Them” started as a piece for Zabriskie Point. The atmospheric, non-narrative approach they tried for the