Julia Dream

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"Julia Dream"
Single by Pink Floyd
A-side "It Would Be So Nice"
Released12 April 1968
Recorded13 February 1968
Studio Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
Genre Psychedelic rock [1]
Length2:37
Label Columbia (EMI) (UK)
Tower/Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s) Roger Waters
Producer(s) Norman Smith
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Apples and Oranges"
(1967)
"Julia Dream"
(1968)
"Let There Be More Light"
(1968)
Official audio
"Julia Dream" on YouTube

"Julia Dream" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd and the B-side of the single "It Would Be So Nice". [2] [3] The song was the first to be released by the band with lead vocals by David Gilmour.

Contents

Writing

Written by bassist Roger Waters, "Julia Dream" is characterised by the slow tempo, the airy, ambient Mellotron sounds from keyboardist Richard Wright and lush chorus vocals.

The song's lyrics include reference to an eiderdown, an item also mentioned in two other known Pink Floyd songs – Syd Barrett's "Flaming" and Gilmour/Waters's "A Pillow of Winds". The phrase "Am I really dying" would reappear in the version of the song "Mother" re-recorded for the film "Pink Floyd – The Wall".

Later release

The song was later included on several compilation albums: The Early Years 1965–1972 box, The Best of the Pink Floyd , Relics , and The Early Singles disc, which was included in the Shine On box set.

Personnel

Covers

Mostly Autumn covered this song on their 2005 live DVD Pink Floyd Revisited . [5]

Shadow Gallery covered this song on their medley "Floydian Memories", found in the special edition of their 2005 Room V album. [6]

Mark Lanegan used to cover this song during his acoustic tour in 2010. [7]

Acid Mothers Temple covers this song on their 2011 live acoustic album Live as a Troubadour. [8]

All India Radio released a cover of this song on SoundCloud in 2019. [9] [ better source needed ]

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  7. Mark Lanegan Statistics, setlist.fm.
  8. "Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Live As Troubadour". Discogs (in Russian). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  9. Pink Floyd - Julia Dream (cover by All India Radio) on YouTube