On the 1975 Wish You Were Here Tour, Pink Floyd’s Live Dark Side Had Radically Different Arrangements — Especially ‚Any Colour You Like‘

During that 1975 North American run, the band played Dark Side of the Moon in sequence as the second half of each show. The studio versions were already tight and polished, but live — especially in a quadraphonic setup — the band treated them as a platform to stretch out. The most radically different arrangement was “Any Colour You Like,” which on the album is a concise 3:26 synthesizer-and-guitar jam. Onstage, David Gilmour and Richard Wright turned it into an open-ended improvisation that could last eight to ten minutes, with Gilmour playing long, reverb-drenched excursions while Wright’s synths and Rhodes floated underneath. There was no fixed structure; the band would lock into a groove and chase it, often building to a huge climax before sliding back into the “Brain Damage” transition.

“Money” also changed noticeably. The studio version’s 7/4-to-4/4 shift is famous, but live they extended the saxophone solo (played by Dick Parry, who was on the album) into a freer