Pink Floyd set for seventh UK Number One with ‘Pompeii’ live album – NME

It is augmented by two additional tracks – a previously unreleased extended version of ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’, and an alternative take of ‘Careful With that Axe, Eugene’
Pink Floyd is set to achieve their seventh UK Number One with the soundtrack for their film ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII’.
The new 4K restoration of the classic 1972 film Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII – and its 2025 soundtrack remix by Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson was released on 2CD, 2LP, Blu-ray and DVD formats last Friday (May 2). According to the Official Charts website, the soundtrack is now sitting at Number One on the midweek charts, and could remain there.
The live album of the film is augmented by two additional tracks – a previously unreleased extended version of ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’, and an alternative take of ‘Careful With that Axe, Eugene’.
If the soundtrack stays in its current place and becomes this week’s Number One, it will be the band’s seventh. They previously topped the UK Albums Chart with ‘Atom Heart Mother’ (1970), ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1975), ‘The Final Cut’ (1983), ‘The Division Bell’ (1994), ‘Pulse’ (Live) (1995) and ‘The Endless River’ (2014).

The new 4K restoration of the classic 1972 film Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII – which uses the original 35mm footage with audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson debuted last month in cinemas worldwide.
NME awarded the Pompeii – MCMLXXII concert film four stars in a review. It said, in part: “As such, Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII captures a moment that’s as bygone as the good citizens of Pompeii themselves. Here was an uncompromising, visionary band who, over the four years since losing their frontman Syd Barrett, had been given several avant garde experimental albums to explore their new identity: 1970’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’, for instance, featured a cow on the cover and a roadie eating breakfast for 13 minutes.”
The original film was directed by Adrian Maben and it sees the legendary band performing in the amphitheatre in October 1971, with no audience in attendance beyond the basic film crew. It features the band playing a range of music from their career up to that point, including ‘Echoes’ and ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’.
In other Pink Floyd news, a judge recently made a ruling in the ongoing case between bassist Roger Waters and investigative journalist John Ware. The latter, who produced the documentary film The Dark Side Of Roger Waters, sued Waters for defamation after being labelled a “lying, conniving Zionist mouthpiece” by the musician.
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