Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by foobar1962 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:15PM (#28860153)

I remember when the album was released and bought a copy. Much was made at the time that this was a real call: one of the PF guys (don’t remember who) told a friend in the UK that if they received a call from “Mr Floyd to Mrs Floyd” just hang up.

The genius part was the the real phone operator quickly tweaked onto the fact that the call was to Mrs Floyd, who should have been alone, but a man answered…

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by billpg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:35AM (#28861831)

That was a real operator?

I can grimly imagine someone calling the phone company to locate her so she can agree to appear on the published record.

"No, we made a call an hour or so ago. I'd like to speak to the same operator who placed the collect for us please."

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by jbledsoe2112 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:47AM (#28864129)

It was a real call, but staged.

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by UncleEntity on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:48AM (#28860622)

> The fake collect call from the US to England…

Yep, unfortunately TFA got that part wrong.

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Re:Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified by jbledsoe2112 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:33AM (#28861819)

Well, it was staged. There obviously no Mr. or Mrs. Floyd. :)

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