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May 25, 2024 · The British rock band Pink Floyd formed in 1965 and was at the forefront of 1960s psychedelia. They popularized the concept album for mass rock audiences in the 1970s. They experimented with their sound and incorporated sound effects, spacy guitar and keyboards, and extended improvisation in such songs as “Interstellar Overdrive.”
- 1965. The band forms, consisting of Bob Klose and Roger Waters on guitars, Nick Mason on drums, Rick Wright on keyboards and wind instruments, and Chris Dennis as lead vocalist.
- 1967. First album is released. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn reaches #6 on the UK album chart but makes it no higher than #131 in the US. The album gets special attention in Britain when the band goes on tour with the already popular Jimi Hendrix.
- 1968. With Syd Barrett's behavior becoming increasingly erratic, David Gilmour replaces Barrett and the band begins to move from psychedelic to progressive with the release of A Saucerful Of Secrets.
- 1969. Two albums were released this year. The soundtrack for the movie, More, Ummagumma was a double album, one disc contained live performances, the other was divided into four sections containing compositions of each member of the band.
4 June 1971. Pink Floyd's six-date European tour commenced in Dusseldorf, West Germany, and ended on 20 June in Rome, Italy. The Rome date marked the last time the band performed Astronomy Dominé live until 1994's The Division Bell tour. 22 June 1971.
In July 1964, Syd Barrett was a member of the band “Hollerin’ Blues,” showcasing his early musical talents before achieving fame with Pink Floyd. This band, which included Barney Barnes on keyboards and vocals, was one of Barrett’s many pre-Pink Floyd ventures.
- In The Beginning
- The Name’S Floyd… Pink Floyd
- Traveling to The Gates of Dawn
- Barrett and The Piper… So Long Syd
- Climbing Aboard The Saucer with Gilmour
- One of These Days I’m Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces
- Money, It’S A Gas
- Wish You Were Here and Animals
- How Can I Complete The Wall?
Formed by Roger Waters and Nick Mason, who were both studying architecture at London Polytechnic(which would later become the University of Westminster) in 1963, the first line-up of Sigma-6 was (rather unsurprisingly) a sextet which included the fledgling keyboard player Rick Wright, who was also studying architecture in the same college as Mason ...
The axiom about change being the engine that drives invention was a hypothesis that the Tea Set proved when they finally assumed the identity that they would become known by around the world. Change is never easy, and it was with a heavy heart that the band adopted another name after discovering that they were due to play a show with a band called,...
Things used to move pretty fast in the music business and having been given an, at the time astronomical advance of five thousand pounds, by EMI Pink Floyd entered the studio and recorded their debut single, Arnold Layne. The song wasn’t the smash hit that their new label hoped it would be, as Barrett and Water’s subversive guitar-drenched anthem a...
As the band entered the studio to record The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, it started to become glaringly obvious to everyone who worked with them that something was amiss with Barrett. He was withdrawn and uncommunicative and started using an unhealthy amount (even for the sixties when such things were commonplace) of LSD, and even though their debu...
An interim solution to the Barrett problem was found in Dave Gilmour, a friend of the increasingly eccentric frontman who agreed to join the band as a fifth paid member to disguise Syd’s disturbing behavior. And for a while, the sticking plaster answer worked until the singer and guitarist’s declining mental health made him impossible to work with....
The next three years, 1969 to 1971 became the bands most prolific, and arguable most creative period, as they released three albums, the experimental double-LP Ummagumma (which contained one track from each band member on the second half of the album, while the first half was compiled from a live performance at Manchester College that the band had ...
When Pink Floyd finished the touring cycle for Meddle, they were ready to finalize writing the songs the bulk of which had been written while they were on the road, for their next album, and in May of 1972, they began to record The Dark Side Of The Moon, a record that took nearly eight months to complete. A concept album that focuses on the fragili...
Long tours can be grueling, daunting affairs, and by the time the band returned to the studio to record Wish You Were Here, Nick Mason’s marriage had collapsed, and there was a general lack of creative direction that was only kicked into gear when Waters finally took charge. The record is loosely based on the experience of Syd Barret, and his journ...
The band’s finances were a collective mess by the time they reconvened in 1978, and when Waters suggested that the next record should be based on a concept that he had written called Building The Wall, Mason, and Gilmour reluctantly agreed. The band began to write and record the album, called The Wall which was eventually released in November 1979....
Jun 3, 2020 · It makes sense that The Wall, a 1979 rock opera, came from Pink Floyd, since three out of the four original members were architecture students... Here's the story of how Pink Floyd began.
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14 April 1972. Pink Floyd's 17-date US tour commenced at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory Auditorium in Tampa, Florida, and ended on 4 May at the Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. 21 May 1972. Pink Floyd headlined the second day of the three-day '2nd British Rock Meeting' festival in Germersheim, West Germany.
