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Pink Floyd: Echoes – The Best Of

GLOOMY BUGGERS, the Floyd. War, death, bitter childhood, alienation, indoctrination, madness, greed, vicious animal husbandry, imprisonment, old age and, inevitably, death. Hi ho, it's off ...

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Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Rick Wright (1971)

A splendid radio interview with Messrs. Mason and Wright in which they talk to DJ Ted Alvy about Meddle, the Zabriskie Point soundtrack, their quadraphonic p.a. system, and playing live. Originally broadcast on KPPC-FM Pasadena in October 1971.

File format: mp3 File size: 33.8mb Interview length: 36 minutes 52 seconds Sound quality: ****

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason (1988)

Gilmour and Mason on just about everything – Syd Barrett etc. – but most rivetingly on the rancorous split with Roger Waters.

File format: mp3; file size: 57.9mb, interview length: 1h 03' 02" sound quality: ***

Roger Waters (1990)

The former Floyd man discusses the problems of producing the upcoming Berlin production of The Wall: German Green Party demands that he plants lupins after the show; Soviet co-operation in using the Red Army Choir; trying to get help from the British military but not being allowed to use an army band, and all the headaches involved in such an ambitious production.

File format: mp3; file size: 19.8mb, interview length: 20' 34" sound quality: ***

Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour (1990)

The Floyd's axe-man looks back at the making of the first post-Waters Floyd album, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, taking the album on tour, Rick Wright's position in the band, and the ongoing grief with Roger Waters.

File format: mp3; file size: 94.6mb, interview length: 1h 43' 13" sound quality: **½

Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour (1995)

The Floyd guitarist talks about family life; playing guitar; the state of the band; making the live album and video; working with Storm Thorgerson, and political and social issues in his life and songs.

File format: mp3; file size: 40.5mb, interview length: 44' 14" sound quality: ****

Pink Floyd's Rick Wright (1997)

The Floyd keyboard man on his solo album Broken China: writing about his wife's depression; the melancholia in his music; co-writing with lyricist Anthony Moore; Sinead O'Connor's involvement; and becoming a singer himself. He talks about what (isn't) up with Pink Floyd; his run-in with Roger Waters when recording The Wall, his dismissal from the band... and the current state of Syd Barrett.

File format: mp3; file size: 21.5mb, interview length: 22' 22" sound quality: ** (phoner)

David Gilmour (2002)

The former Floyd man talks about his DVD, David Gilmour in Concert; the musicians he works with; his first band Jokers Wild; Spain, France and London in 1966; Syd Barrett; his joining Pink Floyd; the on-the-road evolution of Dark Side of the Moon; what is and isn't in the archives, and the Live at Pompeii movie; his post-Floyd session work; his disinterest in restarting the Floyd; the troubled making of The Final Cut and the break with Roger Waters.

File format: mp3; file size: 74.3mb, total interview length: 1h 17' 22" sound quality: **½

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Pink Floyd: All Saints Church Hall, London

LAST FRIDAY the Pink Floyd, a new London group, embarked upon their first "happening" — a pop dance incorporating psychedelic effects and mixed media — ...

2500 Ball at IT Launch

IT ISN'T SO cool to rave about your own party, but the IT Rave-Up at the Roundhouse two Saturdays ago was such an event we ...

Pink Floyd, Paul Jones, Alan Price, Chris Farlowe, Peter and Gordon, Jackie Trent: Royal Albert Hall, London

A MARATHON four-hour show in aid of Oxfam was held at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday and featured an all-star cast. ...

The Who, The Move, Pink Floyd: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London

Psychedelicamania at Roundhouse ...

Who's Psychedelic Now? MM Inquiry by Chris Welch and Nick Jones

SPOTLIGHT ON THE PINK FLOYD AND THE MOVE ...

Freaking Out with the Pink Floyd

BEING ASKED to interview the Pink Floyd is an ordeal I would have wished only on my worst enemies. I was shaking like a leaf ...

Ladies Clothes, Free Form Music, Anarchy and the Pink Floyd

WHEN YOU talk about controversy in pop music these day, you obviously have to talk about the Pink Floyd. ...

Pink Floyd: They're all in the PINK!

THE PINK Floyd burst on to the London club scene in a kaleidoscope of colours some months ago. Literally, because colour, shapes and light gave ...

Pink Floyd, Soft Machine et al: The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, Alexandra Palace, London

TECHNICOLOUR DREAM STIRS UNDERGROUND ...

Light Entertainment from the Pink Floyd!

The Pink Floyd were just another group — until they discovered that light plus sound equalled entertainment. Here they entertain RAVE's pop writer Maureen O'Grady! ...

Love, Beauty, the Fuzz and the UFO

THE IN CLUBS: CHRIS WELCH takes in the London club scene — beginning with UFO ...

Pink Floyd: Locarno, Derby

Frightening Pink Floyd sensations ...

U.F.O. — in front of what's happening!

AS FAR as London is concerned, the hippies' paradise known as U.F.O. — stands for unidentified flying object, the non-own-up official term for flying saucers ...

The Pink Floyd: "Even fans don't always understand what we're trying to do"...

LUNCHEON WITH two members of the Pink Floyd — Roger Waters and Nick Mason — plus their two managers (Andrew King and Peter Jenner) got ...

Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town

MUCH HAS been written, and even more said, of the whys and wherefores of the Pink Floyd. ...

The Great Pink Floyd Mystery

AS THOUSANDS IN ballrooms and assorted hell-holes across the country are deafened and blinded nightly by the Pink Floyd, the well-known psychedelic group, thousands might ...

The Flower Game

What do flowers mean to you? To the Flower People (the Gentle People, the Beautiful People) they signify love, freedom, goodness, fun and new experiences. ...

Pink Floyd, Incredible String Band, Tomorrow, Tim Rose, Fairport Convention: Saville Theatre, London

SUNDAY'S SAVILLE bill was most groovy, opening with the Fairport Convention who are beginning to find their way, followed by American Tim Rose who was ...

'We Feel Good' Say The Pink Floyd

LITTLE DID Mike Leonard know, during the second half of the nineteen-forties, that the experiments he was making in a new art form he was ...

Pink Floyd: His dream girl turned into a hit song!

Instant Guide to The Pink Floyd ...

Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: The Shattering Impact of the Doors

THE DOORS, with Jim Morrison singing lead in his urgent, compelling voice, lead you into the strange world of their music after the freaky album ...

London: Who, Move, Floyd

THE MOVE have been in court, over the promotion of their latest release 'Flowers In The Rain'. The group sent out a postcard-sized promo thing ...

Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, H.P. Lovecraft: Winterland, San Francisco CA

There's Little Dancing At Dance-Concerts ...

New Singles including The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buffalo Springfield

STILL THE BEATLES OLD SOUL AND FEELING ...

Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London

HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble, and wowee Jimi Hendrix! The Hendrix-Move tour thundered off on its trip round Britain with a deafening start at London's ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Move, Pink Floyd, the Nice: Theatre Royal, Nottingham

Nearly brought the house down! ...

Hits? The Floyd Couldn't Care Less

GIVING POP journalists a hard time is the blood sports of groups. It's one of the occupational hazards of the job, as anyone who's ever ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, The Outer Limits: The Theatre Royal, Nottingham

New depths from magnetic Hendrix ...

Platter Chatter: Albums from the Doors, Sopwith Camel, Beach Boys, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd

STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...

Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets (Columbia)

THE FLOYD have developed a distinctive sound for themselves, the result of experiments with new 'electronic' techniques in live performance, however the result of most ...

Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets (Columbia)

Hear the Floyd — it's not so painful ...

Pink Floyd: Royal Festival Hall, London

PINK FLOYD'S Festival Hall concert on Monday was artistry in pop technology. ...

Now It's Pink Floyd Plus The London Phil

CHRIS WELCH FINDS OUT WHAT BRITAIN'S TOP 'OVERGROUND' GROUP ARE PLANNING ...

Pink Floyd: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham

SOUND SPELL CAST BY THE FLOYD ...

Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London

A SILENT, attentive crowd, joss sticks waving, a huge gong booming, and the Pink Floyd looning. It was strange inside the Royal Albert Hall, London, ...

Pink Floyd: Exclusive interview by Richard Williams

PINK FLOYD are a visionary group of creators. Their music flies so high and wild that it can bring a kaleidoscope of images to your ...

Pink Floyd

THE PINK FLOYD have been playing together for five years. During all this time there has been but one personnel change, when Syd Barrett was ...

The Record Rapper: All the way to the West, by God, Virginia (Like, how obscure is West Virginia, Santa Claus?)

DUE TO the recent rash release of a rasher of ratified British records, no less, this is more of the same (see last issue if ...

Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London

AT THEIR best, Pink Floyd get as close to anybody I know to playing the Music of the Spheres. They are, through skilful manipulation of ...

Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Santana et al: Bath Festival — Hub Of World's Pop Talent

THE PROGRAMME for last weekend's Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music stated... "All times subject to possible change." And they weren't joking either. ...

Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers & the Whole World, the Edgar Broughton Band et al: Hyde Park, London

I THOUGHT I'd just wander down to Hyde Park, lay under a tree and quietly listen to the music. However, it seems that Blackhill organisers ...

Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Edgar Broughton Band, Kevin Ayers & The Whole World, Formerly Fat Harry: Hyde Park, London

Good music, bad vibes at free Hyde Park ...

An Interview With Pink Floyd

This interview was conducted before Pink Floyd's first Vancouver concert in October of 1970. Despite a whopping hangover, I managed to struggle out to the ...

Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (Harvest SHVL 781)

CARRY ON, PINK FLOYD ...

Pink Floyd, Nico, John Cale: the Roundhouse, London

THE AUDIENCE at the Roundhouse on Sunday, usually so receptive and well-attuned to good music, was a little disappointing in its failure to respond more ...

Pink Floyd: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Pink Floyd Performs at Santa Monica Civic ...

Pink Floyd: Relics

I WAS IN Los Angeles this spring, when a friend dropped in to say, "Hey there's a new Pink Floyd album and it's all old ...

Pink Floyd: Electric Chaos, But Just Great

Tony Stewart at the debut of Pink Floyd's new masterpiece. ...

Pink Floyd: The Dome, Brighton

NOBODY WHO'S involved in present day music is going to deny that the Pink Floyd have contributed some classics. But having become accustomed to them ...

Chuck Berry, Pink Floyd, Slade, Billy Preston, Roy Young Band: Lanchester Arts Festival, Locarno, Coventry

ONE OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS BILLS EVER ...

Pink Floyd (part 1): 'Things Just Somehow Happen To Us — We Don't Plan'

SIX YEARS ago an evening with Pink Floyd resembled a riot, with bottles, glasses and verbal abuse being hurled in their direction. ...

Pink Floyd (part 2): Simple But Not Banal

LAST WEEK, NICK Mason talked at length about the evolution of Pink Floyd up to the Atom Heart Mother stage. The policy of the band ...

Pink Floyd: Obscured By Clouds (Harvest)

FLOYD JOY FOR ALL ...

Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds (Harvest 11078)

WITH THE arrival of Meddle last year, even Pink Floyd's most ardent followers must have found themselves wondering if the group hadn't outlived themselves. The ...

Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley

Quadraphonic Smokebombs ...

The Future Will Happen This Year: Space Rock

RIGHT NOW we're gonna go back, way back, back before there was FM radio, quadrasonic sound, mellotrons, or any of the other futuristic trappings that ...

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest).

SINCE THEIR performance of this work at the Brighton Dome last year, when, due to technical hitches, the piece fell apart half way through, the ...

Pink Floyd: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY

A PINK FLOYD appearance here has always been worth coming out in the rain for and has often been a full-fledged event, like the American ...

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon

ONE OF BRITAIN'S most successful and long lived avant-garde rock bands, Pink Floyd emerged relatively unsullied from the mire of mid-'60s British psychedelic music as ...

Syd Barrett: The Genius Who Almost Was

IT WAS only a few months back that a friend told me he'd seen Syd Barrett drifting down Charing Cross Road, looking in guitar shops. ...

Pink Floyd/Soft Machine: Rainbow Theatre, London

PINK FLOYD and Soft Machine stunned fans with two sensational shows at London's Rainbow Theatre on Sunday night. It was a splendid evening of rock-co-operation, ...

A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed

They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon

IF YOU'D played this to an average record-company executive at the beginning of '73 and told him it would become the year's best-selling rock LP ...

The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett

The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...

Pink Floyd: A Galactic Voyage

"WELL, we are here and you are here so let's get started," announced a slightly apprehensive but essentially laid back Roger Waters from the stage ...

Pink Floyd: Usher Hall, Edinburgh

"WELL, WE ARE here and you are here so let's get started," announced a slightly apprehensive but essentially laid back Roger Waters from the stage ...

Pink Floyd: All Wright Now!

IN THE current era, when groups and artists come and go with alarming regularity, the continuing success of the Pink Floyd is a peculiar state ...

British Psychedelia: More Zits Than Hitz…

It's dream-time in Compilationsville once again, amigos. This week CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY does his worst to induce EMI into issuing Volume Two in his discocartography ...

Pink Floyd: Vancouver, BC; Seattle WA; San Francisco CA

Trapped on the Moon ...

Pink Floyd: Los Angeles Sports Arena

Space Rock: Floydian Slip ...

Pink Floyd: Notes for an Iron Baptism

THERE ARE only three British groups who matter anymore: the Stones, the Who and Pink Floyd. ...

Pink Floyd, Steve Miller, Captain Beefheart, Roy Harper, Linda Lewis: Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire

Floyd fly high with support ...

Pink Floyd: Walters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason RIBA

99. THERE ARE only three interesting things about Stevenage New Town. One is that there is a Museum there. (!) A Museum? Another is that ...

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Columbia)

Although Pink Floyd has always represented itself – through album graphics, song and album titles, and stage presentation – as working in the outer limits ...

Pink Floyd: More Gritty, Less Giddy

IT HAS BEEN over two-and-a-half years since the release of Pink Floyd's last album, Dark Side Of The Moon, and yet the hit LP is ...

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

TODAY’S LESSON is taken from the Book of Bowie, chapter 1984, side 2, track 4: ...

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

WITHOUT PINK FLOYD we would not have the European sci-fi multitudes (Hawkwind, Can, Amon Duul II and all their little friends) to kick around. They ...

Syd Barrett: Is It Possible, Too, That Syd Has Risen From The Grave?

THOUGH IT'S been something like a year and a half since yours truly and the NME brought you all the harrowing "Saga of Syd" (ne Roger Keith Barrett) ...

Introduction

THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...

Pink Floyd: Games For May

TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...

John Wood: Pioneer of the 'English Sound'

THOUGH SOUND recording celebrates its centenary next year, it is only in the past ten to 16 years that studio techniques have reached the present ...

Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley

PINK FLOYD — DECLINE AND FALL ...

Pink Floyd: Eyeless In The Galaxy

Depressed? Anxious? Hung-up, man? Don't just sit there, bozo – get out and make money out of it! FREEWHEELIN' FARREN winds up out on the ...

Welcome to the Machines: Pink Floyd at Wembley

Karl Dallas reports on the trials and tribulations facing the PINK FLOYD before they could get on stage at the Empire Pool, Wembley, last week. ...

Pink Floyd: Madison Square Garden, NYC

THE FLOYD sure picked a fine week to appear in New York. Not only was it the eve of July 4th, but also it was ...

Pink Floyd’s Heart Of Darkness: A Crash Course in Pig Latin

  IT DIDN'T SEEM like a bad idea at the time I accepted this assignment. Just because Pink Floyd hate the press and won't be interviewed ...

Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life...

THE COLOR black is not a solitary real color. Nor is it the total absence of color. A black hole in space, in fact, is ...

Pink Floyd: But Is It Art?

Pink Floyd.(pink floid), n., a highly-developed rock band with no mind-body split; played rock'n'roll in the 60s writing from a "psychedelic" viewpoint; still playing rock'n'roll ...

Big is Beautiful: Rick Wright

HAVING JUST divested himself of his first solo album, Rick Wright has a second project roaring and ready to go. But he reckons it will ...

David Gilmour: Beginning A Second Decade As Lead Guitarist For Pink Floyd

DAVID GILMOUR has been playing guitar with Pink Floyd for 11 years now – about one-third of his life. And for more than a decade, ...

Pink Floyd: The Wall (EMI SHSP 4111)*

There can only be one place to line up tax-exile millionaires who make concept albums about what a terrible hand life has dealt them... UP AGAINST ...

Pink Floyd: The Wall (Harvest)

FOREMEN OF the apocalypse Pink Floyd are still alive, four lost men in a popular music eclipse. ...

Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles

WELL IT figures, doesn't it? ...

Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles

WALL OF SECRETS ...

Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles CA

MONEY CAN'T buy you love, but it can buy you the most expensive, elaborately mounted rock show you've ever seen. As spectacle, there's no question ...

Pink Floyd: Floydian Analysis

PINK FLOYD is pretty weird. And not just the band, but the way they've been viewed by the rock world. ...

Pink Floyd: Live and All Pink On the Inside

Pink Floyd: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY ...

Pink Floyd: Earl's Court, London

PINK FLOYD'S The Wall, which has already achieved enormous success as a set of two long-playing records, is first and finally an elaborate vehicle for ...

Pink Floyd: The Wall, Earl's Court, London

Brick by Brick, Nick Kent demolishes Pink Floyd's The Wall at Earls Court ...

Pink Floyd: Earls Court, London

The grandiose dream of a paranoid millionaire... ...

Nick Mason: Another Nick in the wall

Patrick Humphries sets the controls for the heart of N1 with NICK MASON. ...

Another Pinkie Hogs The Limelight: Pink Floyd's The Wall: Earls Court, London

PART ONE ...

Pink Floyd: Earls Court, London

PINK FLOYD'S The Wall is the ultimate rock concert, more a funeral than a celebration. ...

Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof: Pink Isn't Well

AS A PINK Floyd fanatic, my biggest fear has always been that on some apocalyptic night as I sat with the rest of the Pinkoid ...

Syd Barrett: The Tragedy Of Floyd's Founding Genius

EARLY IN 1970, Melody Maker asked Roger Waters what he thought of The Madcap Laughs, the debut solo album by his erstwhile Pink Floyd colleague ...

Over The Wall And Into The Dumper: Pink Floyd's The Final Cut

LIKE THE poor damned Tommies that haunt his mind, Roger Waters' writing has been blown to hell. Although The Final Cut is "performed by Pink ...

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (EMI SHPF 1983)

JUST PICTURE IT: over on the left there's wacky old Jack-the-lad Tony Ashton bobbing and weaving away beneath his dad's mangy cloth cap like Kevin ...

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (Columbia QC 38243)

FLOYD'S CUT GOES OVER THE WALL ...

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (Columbia)

WATERS IN THE BRAIN ...

David Gilmour: Life After Pink Floyd

PINK FLOYD is one of the most popular bands in the history of rock 'n' roll. Pink Floyd is also one of rock 'n' roll's ...

Roger Waters: A Technical Hitch

 On the eve of his Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking shows at Earls Court and Birmingham NEC, Pink Floyd founder ROGER WATERS talks to ...

Pink Floyd's Can I Have My Money Back? Post-Partum Parity

6:30 PM (Apparently He Was Driving To Chicago) ...

Roger Waters: "...a rage for simple vengeance"

After all those nights of psychedelic love and peace at the UFO and the Middle Earth in '67, Pink Floyd have ended up — like ...

Roger Waters: He's Got The Technology

Roger Waters talks to JON SAVAGE about life after Pink Floyd ...

Over The Wall: An interview with Roger Waters

ROGER WATERS assumed leadership of the Pink Floyd in '68, turning them from a fringe festival attraction into the most popular touring group of the ...

Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

I WRITE AS a person of definably bog-standard taste when it comes to the Floyd; each in their season, I liked 'See Emily Play', Dark ...

Roger Waters: Out of Troubled Waters

Roger Waters now finds himself in competition with his one-time colleagues in Pink Floyd – he doesn't like it but there are compensations. Mark Cooper ...

Pink Floyd: The Sun Is Eclipsed by the Moon

FOR THE TRUE Pink Floyd fanatic, 1987 was an extraordinary year. First the band split into two armed camps. Roger Waters fired the opening salvos ...

Pink Floyd: Inter-Planetary

IF THERE IS ONE group for whom the enhanced audio medium of CD might have been invented, it is Pink Floyd. From its earliest days ...

Pink Floyd: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

No band has ever been simultaneously as popular and as hated as Pink Floyd. Their latest album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, has spawned three ...

Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder (Columbia)

THIS LIVE double-LP set documents Pink Floyd's enormously successful 1987-88 world tour. Although it was inevitable, releasing a live record is still a bit strange, ...

Peter Jenner Journeys Through The Minefields Of The Rock World

IN HIS 46 years, Peter Jenner has seen a lot of rock 'n' roll, and a lot of rock 'n' rollers, come and go. He's ...

Lunching with the Elder Statesmen of Charity Rock: The Nordoff-Robbins Concert, Knebworth

WHEN QUINCY JONES gathered together his USA For Africa superstars to record 'We are the World' five years ago, he pinned a sign outside the ...

Knebworth 90: The Billion Dollar Buskers

IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...

David Gilmour: The Rightful Heir?

Twenty-five years ago he was just the hired hand. Then he became Syd Barrett's full-time replacement. By 1985, following group leader Roger Waters' traumatic exit, ...

Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd, Mike Watkinson and Pete Anderson (Omnibus Press)

TWO EXCELLENT ways to become a sort of "cult" rock hero: 1) Be dead; 2) Be bonkers...Actually, come to think of it, the first option ...

Nicholas Schaffner: Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey

"THE SITUATION WAS GOING from mad to worse," writes Nicholas Schaffner as Syd Barrett goes AWOL inside his head yet again. ...

Storm Thorgerson: Daily Departures From Reality

"I LIKE PICTURES that don't necessarily have an explanation off pat," Storm Thorgerson says of the beguiling, often outlandish record sleeves that cemented the ...

Syd Barrett

IN COMMON with Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart and Phil Spector, Syd Barrett is a musician whose work is often overshadowed by the myths that surround ...

Pink Floyd: Shine On (EMI)

IT HAD to happen. Rock's back catalogue has been repackaged so often from so many angles that sooner or later the selling point would become ...

Pink Floyd Still Rides Its Dark Side

MOST ROCK RECORDS, even hit records, have a relatively short shelf life. And when most rock stars meet the press, they want to chat up ...

Pink Floyd Meet The Orb: David Gilmour and Dr. Alex Patterson

JUST ABOUT everything anybody has ever told you is wrong. Take, for a very mundane example, the music you listen to. Most likely, there are ...

Pink Floyd: 25 Million Gloomy Punters Can't Be Wrong

Right now, someone, somewhere on this planet is playing Dark Side Of The Moon. Released 20 years ago this month, its mixture of blues and ...

Pink Floyd: The Division Bell (EMI)

WHAT PINK Floyd are telling the world in official communiques – and presumably telling themselves – is that their first new album since 1987's A ...

Pink Floyd: The Third Coming

Three decades and 140 million albums later, the sheer familiarity of the Pink Floyd phenomenon obscures the strangeness of it all. Unlike any of their ...

Pink Floyd: The Division Bell; Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond

IS THIS still really Pink Floyd? That seems to be the question, as it has been since Roger Waters left the band in 1985 to ...

Pink Floyd's Cambridge

Cambridge? Dreaming spires, boatered buffoons, cravat-wearing spy rings, punting and finger-in-the-lug folk festivals. Yeah, and one of the world's biggest ever bands. Johnny Black traces ...

Pink Floyd: Earl's Court Exhibition Centre, London

WE'RE THREE minutes in and the family in front of me (mother, father and two smaller facsimile editions thereof, dressed identically in Division Bell T-shirts) ...

Eyewitness: The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, April 29, 1967, Alexandra Palace, North London

Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...

John Leckie: A Desk Job

Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...

Pink Floyd

At first it was barely a string of fairy lights. Then it was something called an Azimuth Converter. And then a giant screen, a Spitfire, ...

Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

The Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett

He was Pink Floyd’s astral voyager who went too far, the star-child of psychedelia who never returned from his journey to inner space. Nearly 30 ...

The Dark Side of Rick Wright

The Pink Floyd keyboardist explores depression in Broken China ...

Alexandra Palace 1967: Syd Barrett Wasn’t Feeling At All Well...

He was seeing things that others only eyed in kaleidoscopes. But he was aware that Roger Waters was dragging him on-stage; dawn was breaking and ...

Pink Floyd: David Gilmour Could Tell His Friends Were Having Problems…

GILMOUR, GUITARIST for the locally popular Cambridge band Joker's Wild, was in London during May 1967. Knowing that fellow Cambridge outfit Pink Floyd were recording ...

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, aged 25 on March 23, is one of the great monuments of rock history – as overwhelming aesthetically ...

Julian Palacios: Lost In The Woods

POSSIBLY THE most quixotically gifted musician of his generation, Roger Syd Barrett – son of the Cambridge flatlands and short-lived London underground starchild – is ...

Epiphanies: Ummagumma

For Mike Barnes, life would have been a bummer, were it not for Ummagumma. ...

Waters To Tour 'In The Flesh'

Exclusive: former Floyd leader on his 20-date run ...

Danger: Demolition in Progress

ROGER WANTED RICK OUT. DAVE THOUGHT NICK WAS NEXT. BOB GAVE THEM THE HIT AND GOT SACKED TOO. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL THE ...

Which One's Pink? Roger Waters' In The Flesh

• Sony Music, 2000 • Written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, in various permutations, with a little help from exPink Floyders Richard Wright and Nick ...

Absolutely Tabulous

  It was supposed to change the world. Instead it gave us the three-hour guitar solo and Syd Barrett doing the gardening in his dressing gown. ...

Pink Floyd

IT CAN ONLY HAVE BEEN WITH A certain sense of foreboding that Dave Gilmour officially joined Pink Floyd on the first day of January 1968. ...

Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd

Long-awaited greatest hits package from English progressive legends ...

Roger Waters: Off The Wall

To some, Roger Waters is the reactionary ogre who destroyed Pink Floyd. To many others, he's one of the few truly intelligent voices in rock ...

David Gilmour: The Record Collector Interview

ROCK HISTORIANS have a problem with David Gilmour because he is, well, so very balanced. Displaying little of the madness or angst of Pink Floyd's ...

The Making of Dark Side Of The Moon

ROGER WATERS (BASS, VOCALS, VCS3, TAPE EFFECTS, LYRICS) ...

Storm Thorgerson: Mind Over Matter – The Images of Pink Floyd

TO FANS OF WHAT'S unfortunately known these days as "classic rock", Pink Floyd stands among the gods of the progressive rock genre. ...

No One Knew What They Looked Like: Pink Floyd and the Press

THE BOX ARRIVED in Melody Maker’s offices in December 1970, just in time for Christmas, addressed to Michael Watts. It was a sturdily constructed hardwood ...

So Wrong, Yank Floyd Alight

"OHMIGAWD! IT just missed Roger!" Another piece of burning drape — ignited by a stray firework — fluttered into the audience. Some cheered, mistaking it ...

We Have Lift Off!

In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

Waters' last Floyd album is harrowing and still surprisingly relevant. ...

The Last Days Of Pink Floyd

They called it The Final Cut, and that’s what it was for Pink Floyd – The last album they would make with Roger Waters. For the ...

Life After Roger: Pink Floyd

UNTIL AUTUMN 1986, Pink Floyd was the invisible band. Their fame and fortune huge, their individual members anonymous. The arrangement always looked a perfect fit ...

Pink Floyd: Fight Club

If the world-beating line-up of Pink Floyd ever flies again you can thank the drummer. Nick Mason tells Andy Gill his peace-keeping personal history of ...

The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock

Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...

Pink Floyd Tear Down Their Wall

IT IS THE rock reunion no one believed we would ever see – including the band members. Pink Floyd, who endured one of the most ...

Pink Floyd reunion proves that pigs can fly

ROGER WATERS, whose first phone call to Dave Gilmour in over 20 years sealed the Live8 deal, has said nothing. Gilmour has muttered off-the-record that ...

Roger Waters: What's My Motivation?

After 25 years of attrition, the reunited Pink Floyd stole the show at Live 8. Now their former leader wants them to tour Dark Side of ...

David Gilmour: And This Is Me...

STRINGS SHIMMER, a bowed double-bass growls, a saxophone sighs. Heads bowed before the sound desk, David Gilmour and his two engineers listen. Again and again ...

Syd Barrett, 1946-2006

Reclusive co-founder of Pink Floyd ...

Syd Barrett: Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Syd Barrett, the most famous recluse in rock, is dead. It would be easy to mourn the founder of Pink Floyd as a casualty of ...

Syd Barrett

This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...

"I always thought that Pink Floyd were a band for people who don't like music or rock'n'roll": Jack Bruce's wild tales

From Ginger Baker's genius to Leslie West's food roadie, former Cream man Jack Bruce saw it all. ...

Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother Redux

IN JUNE 1984, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, unequivocal as always, told Richard Skinner on Radio 1: "If somebody said to me now: 'Right...here's a million ...

Pink Floyd: See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon

THE STATISTICS, as Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason puts it, "make staggering reading." ...

Richard Wright

Keyboard player and founder member of Pink Floyd ...

Oedipus Wrecks

Warm relations with Mother Dearest can be far from plain sailing. Graeme Thomson finds some deep lyrical evidence for The Dark Side Of The Mum. ...

Pink Floyd: Prog rockers strike a blow for all musical artists

PINK FLOYD'S legal victory over EMI may be welcomed by some as a victory for artistic integrity. ...

Vinyl Icon: Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

IT'S WRIT large in pop history that The Beatles spent the spring of 1967 recording their classic Sgt Pepper album in EMI's Abbey Road Studio ...

Andy Bown

'60s beatster with the Herd, '70s rocker with Quo – Andy Bown has done it all. Now he releases his first solo album for 30 ...

Pink Floyd in Venice

1989, JULY 15: 200,000 fans and 100m satellite TV viewers worldwide watch Pink Floyd play a spectacular free show from a barge floating in the ...

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here – Immersion Box Set

Five whole remastered discs and a mountain of trinkets. But is it worth a ton? ...

In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee

Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...

Pink Floyd: The Endless River

Boring and desperately disappointing: it would take a Barrett-load of drugs to make Pink Floyd's new album interesting, writes Andy Gill ...

Pink Floyd: The Endless River

"WHICH ONE'S PINK," a gormless American record company suit is alleged to have asked Pink Floyd when they landed in California for their first US ...

David Gilmour: Amphitheatre of Pompeii

Pompeii rocks again: Forty-five years on from Pink Floyd's famous gig there, David Gilmour returns to the ancient amphitheatre ...

Overdrive! Syd Barrett Part 2

LAST MONTH WE looked at Syd's childhood and the birth of Pink Floyd up to releasing 'Arnold Layne'. ...

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut – A Requiem For The Post War Dream/ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

THOUGH THEY represent the opposing extremes of Pink Floyd's often tortured psyche, there, in fact, are many similarities between 1983's The Final Cut and 1987's A Momentary Lapse ...

Their Mortal Remains: Pink Floyd at the Victoria & Albert Museum

AT THE START of the V&A's Pink Floyd exhibition there is a photograph of the first ever van that transported the four-man group and their ...

Nick Mason: "In theory, I should have got better over the last 50 years…"

Nick Mason on the past, present and future of his time-travelling new Floyd project, Saucerful Of Secrets… ...

Paperback Writer

Recent books by and about favorite boomer musicians and influencers ...

Bryan Morrison: Have a Cigar! The Memoir of the Man Behind Pink Floyd, T. Rex, The Jam, and George Michael

Posthumous Memoir of Music Exec Tells Tales of T. Rex, Pink Floyd, Wham! and More... ...

Gotta Stem The Evil Tide: Pink Floyd and Throbbing Gristle

THROBBING GRISTLE became a cause celebre in October 1976, with their Prostitution Exhibition at the ICA. Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn called the noise terrorists "Wreckers ...

Raving and drooling: How Pink Floyd made Animals

Pink Floyd's Animals was released in 1977, but its themes continue to strike a chord in the modern day. ...

Bhaskar Menon: Former Capitol Colleagues Remember EMI Music Chief

BHASKAR MENON, EMI Music Worldwide founding chairman and CEO and one of the record industry's most respected leaders, died at his home in Beverly Hills ...

The Spirit of Radio: Songs About Songs

Since its adolescence, popular music has been passionately enamored of itself. ...

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