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The more Maben thought about it, the more the idea contrasted with the prevailing trend of films like The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night and Help, Dylan’s Don’t Look Back, The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter and festival documentary Woodstock. How the Lifehouse album was almost the death of The Who.Traveling Wilburys share Behind-the-scenes videos.The Eagles albums ranked from worst to best.I knew by instinct that this was the place for the film.” “It was strange, a huge, empty amphitheatre with some echoing insect sounds, and the disappearing light which meant that you could scarcely see the other side of this huge structure built more than 2,000 years ago,” he recalls. That evening Maben discovered that he had lost his passport – the first of several significant items to go missing during the saga of the film – and went back to the ruins to look for it in the ancient amphitheatre where he’d eaten a sandwich earlier. That summer he was on holiday with his girlfriend, travelling through Italy, when they visited the Roman ruins of Pompeii, a town that had been literally buried alive by the cataclysmic eruption of the (still active) volcano of Vesuvius in 79AD. Having established contact with Pink Floyd, Maben was not going to let go that easily. We agreed to talk about it again at a later date in other words: ‘Forget the whole idea.’”

They were very polite and totally unconvinced. I had a meeting with manager Steve O’Rourke and David Gilmour where I cautiously produced a few books and some photos of paintings. “I naively thought it would be possible to combine good art with Pink Floyd music. “The original idea was to make a film using modern paintings by de Chirico, Delvaux, Magritte or Christo as some kind of surrealistic décor,” he told the Pink Floyd webzine Brain Damage. Maben, a British-born director living in Paris, had approached the band early in 1971. The irony was that, in the meantime, director Adrian Maben had added footage of the band recording The Dark Side Of The Moon, but it was not enough to save the movie. After its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the film disappeared for two years, and by the time it re-emerged the world seemed to be living in the huge shadow cast by Dark Side….