Comfortably Numb
Title | Comfortably Numb PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Blake |
Publisher | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1568583834 |
Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s.
Pink Floyd: In the Flesh
Title | Pink Floyd: In the Flesh PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Povey |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998-06-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312191757 |
From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multimillion-selling albums and spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story is a pop legend. Pink Floyd: In the Flesh combines, for the first time, a detailed listing of every single Pink Floyd show with a biographical account of the band's collective and individual careers. Illustrated throughout with scores of previously unpublished photographs and a wealth of rare graphic memorabilia, including posters, advertisements, handbills and tickets from every era of the band's remarkable thirty-year history.
Pink Floyd
Title | Pink Floyd PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Fielder |
Publisher | Chartwell |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2023-10-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 078584371X |
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall is a comprehensive history of the legendary band featuring photos, album covers, and posters as well as insight into their iconic songs and albums.
Pink Floyd: I Was There
Title | Pink Floyd: I Was There PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Houghton |
Publisher | This Day In Music Books |
Total Pages | 446 |
Release | 2017-11-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1787590542 |
Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States, and 37.9 million albums sold in the US since 1993. This book is based on fans, friends and colleagues memories of the band from their earliest days in Cambridge through the on stage pyrotechnics of Dark Side and through to the massive stage events like The Wall. Includes new insights into the band with Syd Barrett.
Reinventing Pink Floyd
Title | Reinventing Pink Floyd PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Kopp |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2018-02-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1538108283 |
In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett’s departure, but it went on to release landmark albums that continue to influence generations of musicians and fans. Reinventing Pink Floyd follows the path taken by the remaining band members to establish a musical identity, develop a songwriting style, and create a new template for the manner in which albums are made and even enjoyed by listeners. As veteran music journalist Bill Kopp illustrates, that path was filled with failed experiments, creative blind alleys, one-off musical excursions, abortive collaborations, general restlessness, and—most importantly—a dedicated search for a distinctive musical personality. This exciting guide to the works of 1968 through 1973 highlights key innovations and musical breakthroughs of lasting influence. Kopp places Pink Floyd in its historical, cultural, and musical contexts while celebrating the test of fire that took the band from the brink of demise to enduring superstardom.
Saucerful of Secrets
Title | Saucerful of Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Schaffner |
Publisher | Delta |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385306849 |
Called by The Chicago Tribune "the best book around on this enduringly popular band", Saucerful of Secrets is the first in-depth biography of this very private group. It goes beyond the smoke and lasers of Pink Floyd's incredible stage shows and into the secretive and often tumultuous lives of each band member. 16 pages of photographs.
Crazy Diamond - Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
Title | Crazy Diamond - Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Anderson |
Publisher | Omnibus Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009-12-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0857121227 |
A revealing investigation into the life of a reclusive cult genius. Syd Barrett was Pink Floyd's founder, singer, guitarist and principal composer, who left the group in 1968 amidst tales of acid-induced madness. Barrett's brief flash of erratic brilliance is now the stuff of rock legend, and his post-Floyd recordings have become cult classics. Revised in 2006, this book draws on years on research to relate the story of an epic rock tragedy.