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Jan 23, 2023 · In 1977, Pink Floyd played at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. According to the National Post, it was the largest "stadium rock concert in Canada," coming in at a whopping 80,000 unruly fans. Wayne Larsen of the Montreal Gazette was actually in that crowd, near the front.
- Marta Djordjevic
Sep 20, 2022 · The new Pink Floyd began when David Gilmour first plugged in his Strat in their rehearsal room and played like Jimi Hendrix. Gilmour had grown up in Cambridge with Waters and Barrett, but didn’t mimic Barrett’s abstract guitar style.
May 10, 2024 · Accompanied by eyewitness recollection – Floyd’s Nick Mason is a key player here – Pink Floyd: A Life In Pictures follows the band on their unlikely journey from paisley shirted improvisers to...
Mar 25, 2021 · In 2015 Gilmour announced Pink Floyd was calling it quits. For real this time. He told Classic Rock Magazine : "I've had 48 years in Pink Floyd — quite a few of those years at the beginning, with Roger [Waters].
- Amy Beeman
May 9, 2024 · As it was released, we boarded Gilmour's houseboat on the River Thames, where he told us about his 50 years with Pink Floyd. Tucked away on the river bank in Hampton is an exotic houseboat called The Astoria.
- Mark Ellen
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Sep 20, 2022 · Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader Syd Barrett, then the world’s biggest prog rock band after they cut him loose in early 1968.
Early life. Thorgerson, who was of Norwegian descent, was born in Potters Bar, Middlesex (now part of Hertfordshire ). He attended Summerhill School, Brunswick Primary School in Cambridge, and the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Pink Floyd founders Syd Barrett, who was in the year below him, and Roger Waters, who was in the year above ...
