Pink Floyd music

Videos

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Some old and rare videos here, I found at YouTube and Google video. It's amazing, that 40 years old songs still sounds fresh and modern. Also, videos were edited very profesional.

Arnold Layne was their first hit in 1966, but this video is remastered version from 1970.

Watch and listen Lucifer Sam, second song from their first studio album The piper at the gates of dawn, recorded in 1967.

See Emily Play, their biggest hit with Syd.

Discography

2006-09-11T10:00:00.000+02:00

Pink Floyd Discography - Studio Albums & CD's

The piper at the gates of dawn, 1967

Songs:

1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. Scarecrow
11. Bike

A Sucerful of Secrets, 1968

Songs:

1. Let There Be More Light
2. Remember A Day
3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4. Corporal Clegg
5. A Saucerful Of Secrets
6. See-Saw
7. Jugband Blues

More, 1969

Songs:

1. Cirrus Minor
2. The Nile Song
3. Crying Song
4. Up The Khyber
5. Green Is The Colour
6. Cymbaline
7. Party Sequence
8. Main Theme
9. Ibiza Bar
10. More Blues
11. Quicksilver
12. A Spanish Piece
13. Dramatic Theme

Ummagumma, 1969

Songs:

Disc 1
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
4. A Saucerful Of Secrets

Disc 2
1. Sysyphus: Part One
2. Sysyphus: Part Two
3. Sysyphus: Part Three
4. Sysyphus: Part Four
5. Grantchester Meadows
6. Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict
7. The Narrow Way: Part One
8. The Narrow Way: Part Two
9. The Narrow Way: Part Three
10. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Part One (Entrance)

David Gilmour

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David Gilmour was born on 6th March 1946 in Cambridge,the second father Douglas was a senior lecturer in Zoology and mother Sylvia, a teacher.
David and Syd Barrett met as children in Cambridge and later,at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology. They began playing guitar together and spent a summer hitchhiking and busking around the France. After that, Syd joined Roger, Nick and Rick to form Pink Floyd.
As a friend of Syd, Gilmour was asked to join Pink Floyd as singer and guitarist in 1968. After that Syd struggling with mental illness and leave the group.

David's guitar playing and song writing became major factors of Pink Floyd's world-wide success. His guitar solos are noted for being well-composed and constructed, with very little waste of notes.

Also, David released three solo albums:
David Gilmour in 1978,
About Face in 1984 and
On An Island in 2006.

Rick Wright

2006-08-29T14:57:00.000+02:00

Richard William Wright was born on 28th July, 1945, in Hatch End, London. He was a founding member of the band in 1965, and also participated in its previous band, Sigma 6.
In the early days of the band, Wright dabbled with brass and string instruments before settling on the Farfisa organ as his main instrument onstage (in addition to piano and Hammond Organ in the studio).
He was the quietest and shyest member of a band and has not followed the other 3 surviving band members in of late being willing to become more public figures. He retains a low profile, and rarely speaks in public.
Rick realised three solo albums: Wet Dream (1978), Identity (1984, under the band named Zee) and Broken China (1996).
Ricks work on Echoes

Nick Mason

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Nicholas Berkeley ('Nick') Mason born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England. Nick is the only person to have remained with the band since its inception in 1965. He has played on every Pink Floyd album since 1967, although it was later admitted that his contributions to the album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason were quite minimal.

Although drumming for Floyd was far and away Mason's primary concern over the next few decades, he did occasionally delve into extracurricular projects. He moonlighted as a producer during the '70s (particularly during the latter half of the decade), working not just with fellow proggers like Robert Wyatt, Gong, and Steve Hillage, but also post-bop jazz eccentric Michael Mantler and punk group the Damned. In 1981, Mason released the first album ever under his own name, Fictitious Sports.

As Floyd's recording and touring schedule grew more sporadic, Mason was left with more time to pursue his favorite hobby, auto racing.


Pink floyd playing Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun on 1973-05-18 at Earl's Court

Roger Waters

2006-08-27T01:15:00.000+02:00

Roger Waters co-founded the groundbreaking Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett in 1966 and became the group's sonic architect upon Barrett's departure, creating such undeniable classics as "Dark Side Of The Moon" (which spent nearly 15 years on the Billboard 200 album chart), "The Wall" (which has been certified 23x RIAA platinum), "Animals," "Wish You Were Here," and "Final Cut." Following "Final Cut," Roger Waters left Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd - The Scarecrow
this is one of the first Roger's songs for the band

His first full-length solo album, "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking," was released in April 1984, to great critical and popular success, generating his first solo tour. June 1987's "Radio K.A.O.S." continued the path of solo success, bringing Roger back to the stage. His last full-length solo album, the moody and ironic "Amused To Death," considered by many to be a comparable achievement to "Dark Side Of The Moon" or "The Wall," was released in August 1992.

Roger Waters: What god wants?
very modern and stylish

Syd Barrett

2006-08-26T16:41:00.000+02:00

Roger Keith Barrett was born in Cambridge on January 6, 1946.
He founded the Pink Floyd and played with them until march 1968 for the first album and a little bit of the second. He had a short solo career with only two LP's (and Opel on 1988).
Three albums, few singles and a lot of people all over the world think that he is the best songwriter of the last 35 years.
Interesting? True? False?
For shure, without Sid Barrett and the early Pink Floyd, pop music wouldn't be the same.

Short intro to Syd - few short movies:
Syds Barretts Documented Acid Trip
A Rare Gem in the psychedelic vault.

Maybe this one could better explain his world.
Jugband Blues
Syd Barrett's final daze with Pink Floyd..

He died very peacefully in a july, 11th. He was 60.