Videos merging the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pink Floyd’s Echoes are out there on the web, but none that I know but this one mixes in film audio occasionally and uses a lossless 4k blu-ray source for the video (3840×2160). It’s worth the larger file size.
How to DIY (if you don’t want to download): Start Pink Floyd’s Echoes shortly after the caption ‘Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite’ in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The music will end when the movie does, and each section of Echoes mostly matches each section of the movie’s finale.
The Common Myth: Stanley Kubrick originally hired Pink Floyd to score 2001: A Space Odyssey, but when he heard the score he decided to go with a pre-written symphonic score instead.
#1: Stanley Kubrick originally hired Alex North to score 2001: A Space Odyssey and then forgot about him. North spent months scoring the movie while Kubrick changed his mind and decided to go with pre-written music. North proudly presented his score to Kubrick who turned it down without looking at it. No money for you. [source: liner notes for ‘Alex North’s 2001’ CD]
#2: Pink Floyd saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the theater together in 1968 and later Roger Waters was quoted saying he wished the band had been able to do the music for it. [source: Pink Floyd biography book A Saucerful of Secrets]
#3: Pink Floyd wrote and recorded Echoes in January 1970. They did not have access to 2001: A Space Odyssey at that time in any form. No internet, no VCRs, and it wasn’t on TV until years after that. [source: Pink Floyd biography book A Saucerful of Secrets]
Probably True: David Gilmour commenting on 2001-Echoes around the year 2000, swearing that the band had absolutely no idea. [source: random internet article I read years ago whose revelation is too boring/predictable to be fake, I think]
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