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One
of the most predominant and celebrated rock bands
of all time, the origins of Pink Floyd developed
at Cambridge High School. Syd Barrett (b. Roger Keith
Barrett, 6 January 1946, Cambridge, Eng
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land;
guitar/vocals), Roger Waters (b. 9 September 1944, Great
Bookham, Cambridge, England; bass/vocals) and David
Gilmour (b. 6 March 1944, Cambridge, England; guitar/vocals)
were pupils and friends there. Mutually drawn to music,
Barrett and Gilmour undertook a busking tour of Europe
prior to the former's enrolment at the Camberwell School
Of Art in London. Waters was meanwhile studying architecture
at the city's Regent Street Polytechnic. He formed an
R&B-based band, Sigma 6, with fellow students Nick
Mason (b. 27 January 1945, Birmingham, England; drums)
and Rick Wright (b. 28 July 1945, London, England; keyboards).
The early line-up included bass player Clive Metcalfe
- Waters favoured guitar at this point - and (briefly)
Juliette Gale (who later married Wright) but underwent
the first crucial change when Brian Close (lead guitar)
replaced Metcalfe. With Waters now on bass, the band
took a variety of names, including the T-Set and the
(Screaming) Abdabs. Sensing a malaise, Waters invited
Barrett to join but the latter's blend of blues, pop
and mysticism was at odds with Close's traditional outlook
and the Abdabs fell apart at the end of 1965. Almost
immediately Barrett, Waters, Mason and Wright reconvened
as the Pink Floyd Sound, a name Barrett had suggested,
inspired by an album by Georgia blues' musicians Pink
Anderson and Floyd Council.
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Dark
Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
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One
of the most famous albums of all time, Dark Side Of
The Moon sold 25 million copies in its first 25 years
of release. It continues to be a favourite, with 20
per cent of those sales occurring in the period since
it first came out on CD, a medium to which it is ideally
suited, especially in its current carefully remastered
form. Dark Side Of The Moon was the first album that
Pink Floyd decided to break in live before attempting
to record, with the debut performance of what they then
called Eclipse just over a year before the final release
date. When they finally retired to Abbey Road with top
sound engineer Alan Parsons, state-of-the-art 16-track
recording equipment and the new Dolby technology to
hand, it was to produce one of the great pieces of studio
art.
Covering
a range of styles, this was the last album (prior to
Roger Waters' departure in the early 1980s) to whose
writing the other members of Pink Floyd contributed
significantly. Nevertheless, it remains a stunningly
coherent package, bound together by surreal fragments
of speech (mostly gleaned from asking questions of the
doorman at the studio) and Waters' bold and bleak lyrics.
Often reputed to be about former member Syd Barrett's
decline into schizophrenia, in fact Waters has said
the lyrics "were a lot about ordinariness"
and dealt with people's responses to the increasing
insanity of the pressures of everyday life.
Some
of the extraordinary sound effects used came from the
most unlikely sources--the coins at the start of "Money"
from Waters tossing handfuls of change into an industrial
food-mixer that his wife, a potter, used to mix clay.
Whatever the medium, a new standard for attention to
detail and production values had been set and the world
of studio recording would never be the same again.
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Pink
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Conceived
by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock
film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in
October 1971 in the ancient city's vacant, 2,000-year-old
amphitheatre--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur
and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This
disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well
as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production
and effects feel inescapably dated. Maben's cut goes
to great lengths to lend the film a more contemporary
feel, but it's the earlier version that makes this disc
such a gem, being more focused on the music and more
holistic in vision.
The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the
Pompeii performances with fascinating but distracting
interviews and music snippets filmed later (mostly during
the recording of Dark Side of the Moon). The movie was
originally prepared in a 4:3 aspect ratio, however,
and the widescreen version crops perfectly framed images
like the nine-square mosaic of drummer Nick Mason in
"One of These Days". The original offers plenty
of close-ups of fingers on frets and keys, with shots
that are often luxuriously long in duration. And the
picture quality from Pompeii is revelatory: outstandingly
sharp and clear, rich in subtle grades of light and
colour.
Generous
extras include everything from original posters, reviews,
bootleg album covers and song lyrics, to a 24-minute
interview with Maben. But for all the director's talk
of the glorious acoustics in Pompeii's amphitheatre,
there's little natural ambience to be heard. The Dolby
Digital 2.0 sound is clear, dry and two-dimensional,
though notably better than any previous video release.
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Pink
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Edition)
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The
first major book to be published on Pink Floyd and still
the nearest to an official illustrated biography of
the legendary British group. Now updated for the third
time to include details of their activities in the late
Eighties and Nineties, including the acrimonious split
between Roger Waters and his three colleagues, David
Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, as well as details
of their 'Division Bell' album and tour. Includes rare
early photos of the Floyd with their founder, Syd Barrett,
biographies of each member of the band, posters and
lost ephemera from the group's own collections, a complete
chronology which lists every concert by the group, and
the most comprehensive Floyd discography, including
solo work and spin-off projects, in print.
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