Pink Floyd's Pompeii concert film of 1972 to return to cinemas

One of the most distinctive concert films in rock history, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, is to be rereleased in cinemas - including in Imax format - and have its first soundtrack release.

- Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Filmed in 1971 and released the following year, the film (previously titled Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii) captures the band shortly before their 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon, ushered in their most commercially successful phase. The film will be in cinemas worldwide from 24 April.

Forgoing the usual concert film format, director Adrian Maben decided to have the group perform without an audience in the eerily deserted Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii - the first band to play there. They played tracks from their 1971 album Meddle, and earlier songs such as A Saucerful of Secrets and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.

As well as suitably trippy shots of the city's classical antiquity and the band walking through its landscape, the film also features footage of them working on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road studios, including the songs On the Run, Us and Them and Brain Damage. There are also interviews with the band.