Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s 1975 ode to their estranged, madcap founder Syd Barrett is amongst the strongest material in their formidable catalogue. It…
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were one of the most influential rock bands in popular history. Forming in London in 1965, the band were highly distinguished for their extended compositions, philosophical lyrics, and sonic exploration.
Pink Floyd consisted of Syd Barrett (guitar and lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass and vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards and vocals). David Gilmour joined the band in 1967, while Barrett left in ’68 due to his impending schizophrenia and deteriorating mental health.
Gilmour became their lead guitarist and prominent singer while Waters became their lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concepts for such innovating concept albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983). By 2013, Pink Floyd sold more than 250 million records worldwide, with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall being two of the best-selling albums of all time.
Syd Barrett, the progenitor and mastermind behind Pink Floyd, is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in rock history. From his experimentation with…
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Some of the earlier and more prolific adopters of sampling, Pink Floyd wrote a score of now-iconic songs using wacky soundbites. There’s the cash register in…
After a slew of veritable masterpieces, the prog-rock giant that is Pink Floyd endeavoured to build their most ambitious construct yet, The Wall.
The Dark Side…
As society nervously shifted towards a new decade the times they were a changing. The counterculture was at it’s zenith, drugs were become more wildly…
On Nov 7, 1969 Pink Floyd released Ummagumma, one of the most experimental and avant garde albums of all time. Reeling from the loss of…
Mega fans of Pink Floyd memorabilia rejoice, the complete collection of artworks made for the band’s various experimental audio-visual projects will soon be going up…
Listen to the “lost” Pink Floyd soundtrack for 1970s American head trip drama flick, Zabriskie Point
Pink Floyd‘s music is nothing if not cinematic. And while their live shows were forever entwined with theatre, they rarely dove into the world of…
Gearing up to release their The Later Years box set, psychedelic rock icons Pink Floyd have just shared a previously unheard demo of their song High Hopes.
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Performing at iHeart Radio Festival on Sunday night in Las Vegas, Miley Cyrus covered Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, the latest in a string of classics the…
They say necessity is the mother of invention and the audio industry is littered with developments that occurred, well, because they had to. The consoles…
It’s hard to think of an album more celebrated and universally lauded than Dark Side of the Moon. Released on the 1st of March, 1973,…
