pink floyd

Pink Floyd is a pioneering British rock band founded in 1965 by Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright. Syd Barrett left the band in 1968 to be replaced by David Gilmour. Roger Waters left the band in 1985.

Innovative, experimental, and often conceptually dark, the band was only moderately successful until the 1973 release of their classic album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd subsequently became one of biggest acts in pop music, and one of the top rock bands of all time. The Dark Side of the Moon enjoys long running sales success, as does 1979's The Wall which topped the U.S. charts for 15 weeks. The Wall also boasted the single "Another Brick in the Wall part 2", a song banned by the BBC, it became the bands only #1 American single.

On January 17, 1996, after over three decades of being one of most ingenious bands in Rock Music, Pink Floyd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smashing Pumpkins lead singer  Billy Corgan's induction speech described them as the "ultimate rock and roll anomaly".

Rick Wright passed away on September 15, 2008. Syd Barrett preceded him, passing away  on July 7, 2006.

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• Photos of the Day: Echoes of a Modified Reality

  
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  Photos of the Day: Echoes of a Modified Reality Photography by:  Zefram Cochrane Echoes is a selection of photographs from an ongoing project created by photographer Zefram Cochrane , which he describes as a visual representation of the song Echoes by Pink Floyd .  He explains that he visualizes ...
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• Pink Floyd-Back Catalogue Best Seller Giant Poster Print

  
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  The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are not only some of the best albums from the band Pink Floyd, they are also great looking pieces of artwork. The Pink Floyd-Back Catalogue Best Seller Giant Poster Print gives the band its due with some of the coolest artwork ever. The [...]
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• Iconic Album Art on Stamps

  
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  The British Royal Mail service commissioned Studio Dempsey to create first class stamps with classic albums covers. The covers include albums from Blur, New Order, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Primal Scream, David Bowie, The Clash, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, and Coldplay -but no Beatles. The final selection of ...
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• Sky Arts - Dark Side of the Moon

  
  Layla's Classic Rock — Authority: 117
  "Sky Arts pays tribute to Pink Floyds iconic Dark Side of the Moon album cover, recreating the acclaimed artwork over Primrose Hill, London, yesterday to celebrate the screening of Pulse: Dark Side Of The Moon Live, the bands 1994 live performance of the album at Earls Court, which will be screened on Sky Arts 1 HD ...
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• Pickin on Pink Floyd- A bluegrass tribute

  
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  2001 | Bluegrass Track List 01. See emily play 02. Money 03. Astronomy domine 04. Julia dream 05. Another brick in the wall 06. Run like hell 07. Wish you were here 08. Breathe in the air 09. Lucifer sam 10. Comfortably numb 11. Time 12. Goodbye blue sky
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• A Great Day for Freedom

  
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  Pink Floyds David Gilmour interprets " A Great Day for Freedom " live in Gdansk: On the day the wall came down They threw the locks onto the ground And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived On the day the wall came down The Ship of Fools had finally run aground Promises lit up the night like ...
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• Pink Floyd The Wall 1979

  
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  Personnel * David Gilmour — electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, pedal steel, synthesizers, fretted and fretless bass guitars, synthesizers, clavinet, sound effects * Nick Mason — drums, percussion * Roger Waters — vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, sound effects * Richard Wright — organ, ...
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• Editor’s Pick #200: The Theremin

  
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  So November 4, 2009, I gained another year of experience in life. Throughout my day of yearly reflection and festivity, I wondered what my dear friends would do for me on this particular day of days. One of my fellow editors here chipped in with a few others and handed me an origami card. Upon opening it, I found a ...
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• Pink Floyd “Keep Talking (Nelue Re-Edit)”

  
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• Masterpiece: The Wall

  
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  [Today: Tear down the wall...]It was officially known as “Stützwandelement UL 12.11″ (retaining wall element UL 12.11) and construction on it began in June of 1961. It was 12 feet high and four feet wide, and it ran for 87 miles down the middle of Berlin, separating East from West and providing a symbolic divide ...
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• Wolfmother Drop The Cosmic Egg

  
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• Late Late Night FDL: The Dark Side Of Alice

  
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  The Dark Side Of Alice – Alice In Wonderland set to Pink Floyd ’s Dark Side Of The Moon . What’s on your mind?  
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• Buried Treasure: David Gilmour

  
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  [Today: David Gilmour steps out...]Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour released his debut solo album in May of 1978, between the release of Floyd’s Animals and The Wall. Like both of those albums, this music is shimmering yet tense, and features Gilmour’s lilting/biting guitar. But Gilmour’s vocals here are ...
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• The Other Records Taylor Swift Has Broken

  
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• Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd

  
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  Ca khúc “Wish you were here “nằm trong album cùng tên phát hành năm 1975 của band nhạc Pink Floyd .Nghe ca khúc .So,so you think you can tellHeaven from Hell ,Blue skys . from painCan you tell a green fieldFrom a cold steel rail?A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell ?And [...]
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• PINK FLOYD – Southampton Dock Lyrics

  
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  “Southampton Dock” they disembarked in 45 and no one spoke and no one smiled there were too many spaces in the line gathered at the cenotaph all agreed with hand on heart to sheath the sacrificial knifes but now she stands upon southampton dock with her handkerchief and her summer frock clings to her wet body in ...
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• PINK FLOYD – Sorrow Lyrics

  
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  “Sorrow” The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky: A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers, But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking He’s haunted by the memory of a lost paradise In his youth or a dream, he can’t be precise ...
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• Pink Floyd: Rock & Roll History

  
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  Nov. 5, 1967: Pink Floyd appeared on the Pat Boone Show. I just can’t get my head around this one, it just too freakin’ bizarre. Later that day Floyd played a benefit concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco with the relatively obscure but truly groovy 60’s psychedelic band Sopwith Camel.
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• New shows: U2, John Mayer, Stevie Wonder, more Lady Gaga

  
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  We start this week with things we already know but are now going on sale — chiefly, U2 at Angel Stadium on June 6. That 360° Tour second-leg stop, the band’s first stadium appearance in Orange County, was announced the day after last month’s massive Rose Bowl show , the love-it-or-loathe-it response to ...
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• Cy Preclops

  
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  —I haven’t had a drink since Saturday. —It’s Wednesday. —I know —You sound like an alcoholic. —I know. It still feels good not to drink. I’m going to keep going with it. —Good! That’s good. —Every time I make a proclamation like this I immediately undermine myself, but I sort of want to ...
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