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Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments, philosophical lyrics, and elaborate live shows.
Oct 9, 2024 · After the appropriately named The Final Cut (1983), Pink Floyd became inactive, and legal wrangles ensued over ownership of the band’s name. Waters, who dismissed Wright after The Wall and took over most of the songwriting, was even more firmly in control.
- 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.
Mar 25, 2021 · Pink Floyd fired Wright in 1980, but he came back as a contract player to finish "The Wall" and to tour with the band. By 1985 Waters left, saying Pink Floyd was a "spent force creatively," Far Out Magazine reported.
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Dec 23, 2015 · Pink Floyd buried the hatchet on Dec. 23, 1987, celebrating peace on Earth and goodwill to men by legally finalizing one of the most strongly contested breakups in rock 'n' roll history.
After some personnel and name changes, the band finally settled down into the Barrett/Mason/Waters/Wright lineup in the summer of 1965 under the name of Pink Floyd, suggested by Syd and based on US bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Syd Barrett came up with the name Pink Floyd by combining the surnames of the two blues musicians.
A group of talented teenagers from academic backgrounds in Cambridge — Roger 'Syd' Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour — are all keen guitarists and among many who move to London, keen to discover more of this new world and express themselves in it. Mainly in further education — studying the arts, architecture, music — they mix with ...
