Pink Floyd FAQ by Stuart Shea

Author:Stuart Shea [Shea, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781617133947
Publisher: Backbeat
Published: 2013-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

“HaveYou Ever Read the Evening Standard? ” (1968)

In their efforts to write that elusive post-Syd “hit single,” the Floyd released Rick Wright’s “It Would Be So Nice” in spring 1968.

Wright worked long and hard to make his first attempt at a 45 a surefire hit, and as a result “So Nice” is overly fussy and indebted both to Barrett’s vocal style and the kind of veddy British lyric favored by Paul McCartney, Ray Davies, and, of course, Syd. Both Nick Mason and Roger Waters professed—after the record bombed, of course—to hate it, but then again neither of them was coming up with catchy material in 1968.

The original copies of the 45 referenced a leading British newspaper, The Evening Standard, in its lyric. Unfortunately the BBC banned the single, unfathomably deciding that the use of the newspaper’s name was tantamount to advertising. That the group released a new version with the generic “The Daily Standard” dubbed in mattered not a whit, as any momentum the song had was already lost.

The entire episode was so miserable for the band that “It Would Be So Nice” wasn’t even anthologized in England or America until 1992, on the expensive Shine On box set. Most folks who have heard it only became familiar with the single on a mid-seventies European compilation called Masters of Rock—and that version was in stereo, rather than the original mono.

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