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Pink Floyd: Echoes – The Best Of
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2001
GLOOMY BUGGERS, the Floyd. War, death, bitter childhood, alienation, indoctrination, madness, greed, vicious animal husbandry, imprisonment, old age and, inevitably, death. Hi ho, it's off ...
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Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Rick Wright (1971)
Interview by Ted Alvy, KPPC-FM 106.7 Pasadena, 16 October 1971
A splendid radio interview with Messrs. Mason and Wright in which they talk to DJ Ted Alvy about Meddle, the Zabriskie Point soundtrack, their quadraphonic p.a. system, and playing live. Originally broadcast on KPPC-FM Pasadena in October 1971.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.8mb Interview length: 36 minutes 52 seconds Sound quality: ****
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason (1988)
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1988
Gilmour and Mason on just about everything – Syd Barrett etc. – but most rivetingly on the rancorous split with Roger Waters.
File format: mp3; file size: 57.9mb, interview length: 1h 03' 02" sound quality: ***
Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1990
The former Floyd man discusses the problems of producing the upcoming Berlin production of The Wall: German Green Party demands that he plants lupins after the show; Soviet co-operation in using the Red Army Choir; trying to get help from the British military but not being allowed to use an army band, and all the headaches involved in such an ambitious production.
File format: mp3; file size: 19.8mb, interview length: 20' 34" sound quality: ***
Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour (1990)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1990
The Floyd's axe-man looks back at the making of the first post-Waters Floyd album, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, taking the album on tour, Rick Wright's position in the band, and the ongoing grief with Roger Waters.
File format: mp3; file size: 94.6mb, interview length: 1h 43' 13" sound quality: **½
Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour (1995)
Interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages Audio, 19 May 1995
The Floyd guitarist talks about family life; playing guitar; the state of the band; making the live album and video; working with Storm Thorgerson, and political and social issues in his life and songs.
File format: mp3; file size: 40.5mb, interview length: 44' 14" sound quality: ****
Pink Floyd's Rick Wright (1997)
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 1997
The Floyd keyboard man on his solo album Broken China: writing about his wife's depression; the melancholia in his music; co-writing with lyricist Anthony Moore; Sinead O'Connor's involvement; and becoming a singer himself. He talks about what (isn't) up with Pink Floyd; his run-in with Roger Waters when recording The Wall, his dismissal from the band... and the current state of Syd Barrett.
File format: mp3; file size: 21.5mb, interview length: 22' 22" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Pink Floyd: All Saints Church Hall, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 20 October 1966
LAST FRIDAY the Pink Floyd, a new London group, embarked upon their first "happening" — a pop dance incorporating psychedelic effects and mixed media — ...
Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 31 October 1966
IT ISN'T SO cool to rave about your own party, but the IT Rave-Up at the Roundhouse two Saturdays ago was such an event we ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 December 1966
A MARATHON four-hour show in aid of Oxfam was held at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday and featured an all-star cast. ...
The Who, The Move, Pink Floyd: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
Psychedelicamania at Roundhouse ...
Who's Psychedelic Now? MM Inquiry by Chris Welch and Nick Jones
Interview by Nick Jones, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967
SPOTLIGHT ON THE PINK FLOYD AND THE MOVE ...
Freaking Out with the Pink Floyd
Report and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 1 April 1967
BEING ASKED to interview the Pink Floyd is an ordeal I would have wished only on my worst enemies. I was shaking like a leaf ...
Ladies Clothes, Free Form Music, Anarchy and the Pink Floyd
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 8 April 1967
WHEN YOU talk about controversy in pop music these day, you obviously have to talk about the Pink Floyd. ...
Pink Floyd: They're all in the PINK!
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
THE PINK Floyd burst on to the London club scene in a kaleidoscope of colours some months ago. Literally, because colour, shapes and light gave ...
Pink Floyd, Soft Machine et al: The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 6 May 1967
TECHNICOLOUR DREAM STIRS UNDERGROUND ...
Light Entertainment from the Pink Floyd!
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, June 1967
The Pink Floyd were just another group — until they discovered that light plus sound equalled entertainment. Here they entertain RAVE's pop writer Maureen O'Grady! ...
Love, Beauty, the Fuzz and the UFO
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 June 1967
THE IN CLUBS: CHRIS WELCH takes in the London club scene — beginning with UFO ...
U.F.O. — in front of what's happening!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 24 June 1967
AS FAR as London is concerned, the hippies' paradise known as U.F.O. — stands for unidentified flying object, the non-own-up official term for flying saucers ...
The Pink Floyd: "Even fans don't always understand what we're trying to do"...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 8 July 1967
LUNCHEON WITH two members of the Pink Floyd — Roger Waters and Nick Mason — plus their two managers (Andrew King and Peter Jenner) got ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 August 1967
AS THOUSANDS IN ballrooms and assorted hell-holes across the country are deafened and blinded nightly by the Pink Floyd, the well-known psychedelic group, thousands might ...
Report by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, September 1967
What do flowers mean to you? To the Flower People (the Gentle People, the Beautiful People) they signify love, freedom, goodness, fun and new experiences. ...
Pink Floyd, Incredible String Band, Tomorrow, Tim Rose, Fairport Convention: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 October 1967
SUNDAY'S SAVILLE bill was most groovy, opening with the Fairport Convention who are beginning to find their way, followed by American Tim Rose who was ...
'We Feel Good' Say The Pink Floyd
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
LITTLE DID Mike Leonard know, during the second half of the nineteen-forties, that the experiments he was making in a new art form he was ...
Pink Floyd: His dream girl turned into a hit song!
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Jackie, 31 October 1967
Instant Guide to The Pink Floyd ...
Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: The Shattering Impact of the Doors
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 5 November 1967
THE DOORS, with Jim Morrison singing lead in his urgent, compelling voice, lead you into the strange world of their music after the freaky album ...
Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, H.P. Lovecraft: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 November 1967
There's Little Dancing At Dance-Concerts ...
New Singles including The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buffalo Springfield
Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 18 November 1967
STILL THE BEATLES OLD SOUL AND FEELING ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967
HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble, and wowee Jimi Hendrix! The Hendrix-Move tour thundered off on its trip round Britain with a deafening start at London's ...
Hits? The Floyd Couldn't Care Less
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 December 1967
GIVING POP journalists a hard time is the blood sports of groups. It's one of the occupational hazards of the job, as anyone who's ever ...
Platter Chatter: Albums from the Doors, Sopwith Camel, Beach Boys, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1968
STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets (Columbia)
Review by Miles, International Times, 26 July 1968
THE FLOYD have developed a distinctive sound for themselves, the result of experiments with new 'electronic' techniques in live performance, however the result of most ...
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets (Columbia)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 10 August 1968
Hear the Floyd — it's not so painful ...
Pink Floyd: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 April 1969
PINK FLOYD'S Festival Hall concert on Monday was artistry in pop technology. ...
Now It's Pink Floyd Plus The London Phil
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 May 1969
CHRIS WELCH FINDS OUT WHAT BRITAIN'S TOP 'OVERGROUND' GROUP ARE PLANNING ...
Pink Floyd: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Live Review by Michael Watts, Walsall Observer & South Staffordshire Chronicle, 27 June 1969
SOUND SPELL CAST BY THE FLOYD ...
Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
A SILENT, attentive crowd, joss sticks waving, a huge gong booming, and the Pink Floyd looning. It was strange inside the Royal Albert Hall, London, ...
Pink Floyd: Exclusive interview by Richard Williams
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 November 1969
PINK FLOYD are a visionary group of creators. Their music flies so high and wild that it can bring a kaleidoscope of images to your ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1970
THE PINK FLOYD have been playing together for five years. During all this time there has been but one personnel change, when Syd Barrett was ...
Overview by Gary Lucas, Cogito, February 1970
DUE TO the recent rash release of a rasher of ratified British records, no less, this is more of the same (see last issue if ...
Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
AT THEIR best, Pink Floyd get as close to anybody I know to playing the Music of the Spheres. They are, through skilful manipulation of ...
Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers & the Whole World, the Edgar Broughton Band et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 25 July 1970
I THOUGHT I'd just wander down to Hyde Park, lay under a tree and quietly listen to the music. However, it seems that Blackhill organisers ...
Live Review by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 25 July 1970
Good music, bad vibes at free Hyde Park ...
Interview by Mike Quigley, The Georgia Straight, 14 October 1970
This interview was conducted before Pink Floyd's first Vancouver concert in October of 1970. Despite a whopping hangover, I managed to struggle out to the ...
Pink Floyd: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 19 October 1971
Pink Floyd Performs at Santa Monica Civic ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, November 1971
I WAS IN Los Angeles this spring, when a friend dropped in to say, "Hey there's a new Pink Floyd album and it's all old ...
Pink Floyd: Electric Chaos, But Just Great
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 29 January 1972
Tony Stewart at the debut of Pink Floyd's new masterpiece. ...
Pink Floyd: The Dome, Brighton
Live Review by Andrew Means, Melody Maker, 29 January 1972
NOBODY WHO'S involved in present day music is going to deny that the Pink Floyd have contributed some classics. But having become accustomed to them ...
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
ONE OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS BILLS EVER ...
Pink Floyd (part 1): 'Things Just Somehow Happen To Us — We Don't Plan'
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
SIX YEARS ago an evening with Pink Floyd resembled a riot, with bottles, glasses and verbal abuse being hurled in their direction. ...
Pink Floyd (part 2): Simple But Not Banal
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 19 February 1972
LAST WEEK, NICK Mason talked at length about the evolution of Pink Floyd up to the Atom Heart Mother stage. The policy of the band ...
Pink Floyd: Obscured By Clouds (Harvest)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972
FLOYD JOY FOR ALL ...
Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds (Harvest 11078)
Review by Dan Nooger, Fusion, October 1972
WITH THE arrival of Meddle last year, even Pink Floyd's most ardent followers must have found themselves wondering if the group hadn't outlived themselves. The ...
Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 28 October 1972
Quadraphonic Smokebombs ...
The Future Will Happen This Year: Space Rock
Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, March 1973
RIGHT NOW we're gonna go back, way back, back before there was FM radio, quadrasonic sound, mellotrons, or any of the other futuristic trappings that ...
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest).
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 17 March 1973
SINCE THEIR performance of this work at the Brighton Dome last year, when, due to technical hitches, the piece fell apart half way through, the ...
Pink Floyd: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 22 March 1973
A PINK FLOYD appearance here has always been worth coming out in the rain for and has often been a full-fledged event, like the American ...
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon
Review by Loyd Grossman, Rolling Stone, 24 May 1973
ONE OF BRITAIN'S most successful and long lived avant-garde rock bands, Pink Floyd emerged relatively unsullied from the mire of mid-'60s British psychedelic music as ...
Syd Barrett: The Genius Who Almost Was
Profile by Nick Kent, Creem, October 1973
IT WAS only a few months back that a friend told me he'd seen Syd Barrett drifting down Charing Cross Road, looking in guitar shops. ...
Pink Floyd/Soft Machine: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
PINK FLOYD and Soft Machine stunned fans with two sensational shows at London's Rainbow Theatre on Sunday night. It was a splendid evening of rock-co-operation, ...
A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
Essay by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974
IF YOU'D played this to an average record-company executive at the beginning of '73 and told him it would become the year's best-selling rock LP ...
The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974
The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 9 November 1974
"WELL, we are here and you are here so let's get started," announced a slightly apprehensive but essentially laid back Roger Waters from the stage ...
Pink Floyd: Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 9 November 1974
"WELL, WE ARE here and you are here so let's get started," announced a slightly apprehensive but essentially laid back Roger Waters from the stage ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 16 November 1974
IN THE current era, when groups and artists come and go with alarming regularity, the continuing success of the Pink Floyd is a peculiar state ...
British Psychedelia: More Zits Than Hitz…
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975
It's dream-time in Compilationsville once again, amigos. This week CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY does his worst to induce EMI into issuing Volume Two in his discocartography ...
Pink Floyd: Vancouver, BC; Seattle WA; San Francisco CA
Live Review by David Rensin, Sounds, 3 May 1975
Trapped on the Moon ...
Pink Floyd: Los Angeles Sports Arena
Live Review by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975
Space Rock: Floydian Slip ...
Pink Floyd: Notes for an Iron Baptism
Essay by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 30 June 1975
THERE ARE only three British groups who matter anymore: the Stones, the Who and Pink Floyd. ...
Pink Floyd, Steve Miller, Captain Beefheart, Roy Harper, Linda Lewis: Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire
Live Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 12 July 1975
Floyd fly high with support ...
Pink Floyd: Walters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason RIBA
Essay by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, September 1975
99. THERE ARE only three interesting things about Stevenage New Town. One is that there is a Museum there. (!) A Museum? Another is that ...
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Columbia)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, October 1975
Although Pink Floyd has always represented itself – through album graphics, song and album titles, and stage presentation – as working in the outer limits ...
Pink Floyd: More Gritty, Less Giddy
Report and Interview by Alan Betrock, Circus, October 1975
IT HAS BEEN over two-and-a-half years since the release of Pink Floyd's last album, Dark Side Of The Moon, and yet the hit LP is ...
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, November 1975
TODAY’S LESSON is taken from the Book of Bowie, chapter 1984, side 2, track 4: ...
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Review by Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1975
WITHOUT PINK FLOYD we would not have the European sci-fi multitudes (Hawkwind, Can, Amon Duul II and all their little friends) to kick around. They ...
Syd Barrett: Is It Possible, Too, That Syd Has Risen From The Grave?
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975
THOUGH IT'S been something like a year and a half since yours truly and the NME brought you all the harrowing "Saga of Syd" (ne Roger Keith Barrett) ...
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Retrospective by Miles, New Musical Express, 15 May 1976
TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...
John Wood: Pioneer of the 'English Sound'
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 June 1976
THOUGH SOUND recording celebrates its centenary next year, it is only in the past ten to 16 years that studio techniques have reached the present ...
Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, London
Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 March 1977
GLC fuck-ups at Empire Pool ...
Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Ed Jones, The Spectator, 26 March 1977
PINK FLOYD — DECLINE AND FALL ...
Pink Floyd: Eyeless In The Galaxy
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 March 1977
Depressed? Anxious? Hung-up, man? Don't just sit there, bozo – get out and make money out of it! FREEWHEELIN' FARREN winds up out on the ...
Pink Floyd: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 23 July 1977
THE FLOYD sure picked a fine week to appear in New York. Not only was it the eve of July 4th, but also it was ...
Pink Floyd’s Heart Of Darkness: A Crash Course in Pig Latin
Overview by Ira Robbins, Creem, October 1977
IT DIDN'T SEEM like a bad idea at the time I accepted this assignment. Just because Pink Floyd hate the press and won't be interviewed ...
Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life...
Retrospective by Kris DiLorenzo, Trouser Press, February 1978
THE COLOR black is not a solitary real color. Nor is it the total absence of color. A black hole in space, in fact, is ...
Essay by Kris DiLorenzo, Trouser Press, May 1978
Pink Floyd.(pink floid), n., a highly-developed rock band with no mind-body split; played rock'n'roll in the 60s writing from a "psychedelic" viewpoint; still playing rock'n'roll ...
Profile and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 4 November 1978
HAVING JUST divested himself of his first solo album, Rick Wright has a second project roaring and ready to go. But he reckons it will ...
David Gilmour: Beginning A Second Decade As Lead Guitarist For Pink Floyd
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1979
DAVID GILMOUR has been playing guitar with Pink Floyd for 11 years now – about one-third of his life. And for more than a decade, ...
Pink Floyd: The Wall (EMI SHSP 4111)*
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 1 December 1979
There can only be one place to line up tax-exile millionaires who make concept albums about what a terrible hand life has dealt them... UP AGAINST ...
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Harvest)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 1 December 1979
FOREMEN OF the apocalypse Pink Floyd are still alive, four lost men in a popular music eclipse. ...
Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 23 February 1980
WALL OF SECRETS ...
Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 23 February 1980
WELL IT figures, doesn't it? ...
Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 7 March 1980
MONEY CAN'T buy you love, but it can buy you the most expensive, elaborately mounted rock show you've ever seen. As spectacle, there's no question ...
Discography by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1980
PINK FLOYD is pretty weird. And not just the band, but the way they've been viewed by the rock world. ...
Pink Floyd: Live and All Pink On the Inside
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1980
Pink Floyd: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY ...
Pink Floyd: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 5 August 1980
PINK FLOYD'S The Wall, which has already achieved enormous success as a set of two long-playing records, is first and finally an elaborate vehicle for ...
Pink Floyd: The Wall, Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 August 1980
Brick by Brick, Nick Kent demolishes Pink Floyd's The Wall at Earls Court ...
Pink Floyd: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 16 August 1980
The grandiose dream of a paranoid millionaire... ...
Another Pinkie Hogs The Limelight: Pink Floyd's The Wall: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 20 June 1981
PART ONE ...
Pink Floyd: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 20 June 1981
PINK FLOYD'S The Wall is the ultimate rock concert, more a funeral than a celebration. ...
Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof: Pink Isn't Well
Report and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Creem, December 1982
AS A PINK Floyd fanatic, my biggest fear has always been that on some apocalyptic night as I sat with the rest of the Pinkoid ...
Syd Barrett: The Tragedy Of Floyd's Founding Genius
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
Early in 1970, Melody Maker asked Roger Waters what he thought of The Madcap Laughs, the debut solo album by his erstwhile Pink Floyd colleague ...
Over The Wall And Into The Dumper: Pink Floyd's The Final Cut
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 19 March 1983
LIKE THE poor damned Tommies that haunt his mind, Roger Waters' writing has been blown to hell. Although The Final Cut is "performed by Pink ...
Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (EMI SHPF 1983)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 19 March 1983
JUST PICTURE IT: over on the left there's wacky old Jack-the-lad Tony Ashton bobbing and weaving away beneath his dad's mangy cloth cap like Kevin ...
David Gilmour: Life After Pink Floyd
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 24 May 1984
PINK FLOYD is one of the most popular bands in the history of rock 'n' roll. Pink Floyd is also one of rock 'n' roll's ...
Pink Floyd's Can I Have My Money Back? Post-Partum Parity
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1984
6:30 PM (Apparently He Was Driving To Chicago) ...
Roger Waters: "...a rage for simple vengeance"
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 1987
After all those nights of psychedelic love and peace at the UFO and the Middle Earth in '67, Pink Floyd have ended up — like ...
Roger Waters: He's Got The Technology
Profile and Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 12 July 1987
Roger Waters talks to JON SAVAGE about life after Pink Floyd ...
Over The Wall: An interview with Roger Waters
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, August 1987
ROGER WATERS assumed leadership of the Pink Floyd in '68, turning them from a fringe festival attraction into the most popular touring group of the ...
Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, October 1987
I WRITE AS a person of definably bog-standard taste when it comes to the Floyd; each in their season, I liked 'See Emily Play', Dark ...
Roger Waters: Out of Troubled Waters
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 20 November 1987
Roger Waters now finds himself in competition with his one-time colleagues in Pink Floyd – he doesn't like it but there are compensations. Mark Cooper ...
Pink Floyd: The Sun Is Eclipsed by the Moon
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Creem, February 1988
FOR THE TRUE Pink Floyd fanatic, 1987 was an extraordinary year. First the band split into two armed camps. Roger Waters fired the opening salvos ...
Overview by David Sinclair, Q, April 1988
IF THERE IS ONE group for whom the enhanced audio medium of CD might have been invented, it is Pink Floyd. From its earliest days ...
Pink Floyd: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 9 July 1988
No band has ever been simultaneously as popular and as hated as Pink Floyd. Their latest album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, has spawned three ...
Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder (Columbia)
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 26 January 1989
THIS LIVE double-LP set documents Pink Floyd's enormously successful 1987-88 world tour. Although it was inevitable, releasing a live record is still a bit strange, ...
Peter Jenner Journeys Through The Minefields Of The Rock World
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 January 1990
IN HIS 46 years, Peter Jenner has seen a lot of rock 'n' roll, and a lot of rock 'n' rollers, come and go. He's ...
Lunching with the Elder Statesmen of Charity Rock: The Nordoff-Robbins Concert, Knebworth
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 2 July 1990
WHEN QUINCY JONES gathered together his USA For Africa superstars to record 'We are the World' five years ago, he pinned a sign outside the ...
Knebworth 90: The Billion Dollar Buskers
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...
David Gilmour: The Rightful Heir?
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1990
Twenty-five years ago he was just the hired hand. Then he became Syd Barrett's full-time replacement. By 1985, following group leader Roger Waters' traumatic exit, ...
Book Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1991
TWO EXCELLENT ways to become a sort of "cult" rock hero: 1) Be dead; 2) Be bonkers...Actually, come to think of it, the first option ...
Nicholas Schaffner: Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey
Book Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1991
"THE SITUATION WAS GOING from mad to worse," writes Nicholas Schaffner as Syd Barrett goes AWOL inside his head yet again. ...
Storm Thorgerson: Daily Departures From Reality
Interview by Martin Aston, Q, December 1992
"I LIKE PICTURES that don't necessarily have an explanation off pat," Storm Thorgerson says of the beguiling, often outlandish record sleeves that cemented the ...
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, 1993
IN COMMON with Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart and Phil Spector, Syd Barrett is a musician whose work is often overshadowed by the myths that surround ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, January 1993
IT HAD to happen. Rock's back catalogue has been repackaged so often from so many angles that sooner or later the selling point would become ...
Pink Floyd Still Rides Its Dark Side
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 26 March 1993
MOST ROCK RECORDS, even hit records, have a relatively short shelf life. And when most rock stars meet the press, they want to chat up ...
Pink Floyd Meet The Orb: David Gilmour and Dr. Alex Patterson
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 27 March 1993
JUST ABOUT everything anybody has ever told you is wrong. Take, for a very mundane example, the music you listen to. Most likely, there are ...
Pink Floyd: 25 Million Gloomy Punters Can't Be Wrong
Retrospective and Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, April 1993
Right now, someone, somewhere on this planet is playing Dark Side Of The Moon. Released 20 years ago this month, its mixture of blues and ...
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell (EMI)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1994
WHAT PINK Floyd are telling the world in official communiques – and presumably telling themselves – is that their first new album since 1987's A ...
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Sandall, MOJO, May 1994
Three decades and 140 million albums later, the sheer familiarity of the Pink Floyd phenomenon obscures the strangeness of it all. Unlike any of their ...
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell; Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
Review by Tom Graves, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1994
IS THIS still really Pink Floyd? That seems to be the question, as it has been since Roger Waters left the band in 1985 to ...
Guide by Johnny Black, Q, September 1994
Cambridge? Dreaming spires, boatered buffoons, cravat-wearing spy rings, punting and finger-in-the-lug folk festivals. Yeah, and one of the world's biggest ever bands. Johnny Black traces ...
Pink Floyd: Earl's Court Exhibition Centre, London
Live Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, December 1994
WE'RE THREE minutes in and the family in front of me (mother, father and two smaller facsimile editions thereof, dressed identically in Division Bell T-shirts) ...
Eyewitness: The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, April 29, 1967, Alexandra Palace, North London
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, June 1995
Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, July 1995
At first it was barely a string of fairy lights. Then it was something called an Azimuth Converter. And then a giant screen, a Spitfire, ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
The Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett
Retrospective by Cliff Jones, MOJO, September 1996
He was Pink Floyd’s astral voyager who went too far, the star-child of psychedelia who never returned from his journey to inner space. Nearly 30 ...
Alexandra Palace 1967: Syd Barrett Wasn’t Feeling At All Well...
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, April 1997
He was seeing things that others only eyed in kaleidoscopes. But he was aware that Roger Waters was dragging him on-stage; dawn was breaking and ...
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour Could Tell His Friends Were Having Problems…
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, August 1997
GILMOUR, GUITARIST for the locally popular Cambridge band Joker's Wild, was in London during May 1967. Knowing that fellow Cambridge outfit Pink Floyd were recording ...
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, March 1998
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, aged 25 on March 23, is one of the great monuments of rock history – as overwhelming aesthetically ...
Julian Palacios: Lost In The Woods
Book Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
POSSIBLY THE most quixotically gifted musician of his generation, Roger Syd Barrett – son of the Cambridge flatlands and short-lived London underground starchild – is ...
Memoir by Mike Barnes, The Wire, November 1998
For Mike Barnes, life would have been a bummer, were it not for Ummagumma. ...
Pink Floyd: The Story of The Wall
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, December 1999
ON JUNE 16 THIS YEAR Rick Wright finally did what every therapist advises: confronted his Nemesis. "I think I'm the only one who's actually seen ...
Which One's Pink? Roger Waters' In The Flesh
Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, January 2001
• Sony Music, 2000 • Written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, in various permutations, with a little help from exPink Floyders Richard Wright and Nick ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, November 2001
IT CAN ONLY HAVE BEEN WITH A certain sense of foreboding that Dave Gilmour officially joined Pink Floyd on the first day of January 1968. ...
Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
Long-awaited greatest hits package from English progressive legends ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, March 2003
To some, Roger Waters is the reactionary ogre who destroyed Pink Floyd. To many others, he's one of the few truly intelligent voices in rock ...
David Gilmour: The Record Collector Interview
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003
ROCK HISTORIANS have a problem with David Gilmour because he is, well, so very balanced. Displaying little of the madness or angst of Pink Floyd's ...
The Making of Dark Side Of The Moon
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2003
ROGER WATERS (BASS, VOCALS, VCS3, TAPE EFFECTS, LYRICS) ...
No One Knew What They Looked Like: Pink Floyd and the Press
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Q, 2004
THE BOX ARRIVED in Melody Maker’s offices in December 1970, just in time for Christmas, addressed to Michael Watts. It was a sturdily constructed hardwood ...
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Dellar, MOJO, February 2004
"OHMIGAWD! IT just missed Roger!" Another piece of burning drape — ignited by a stray firework — fluttered into the audience. Some cheered, mistaking it ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
Review and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, May 2004
Waters' last Floyd album is harrowing and still surprisingly relevant. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2004
They called it The Final Cut, and that’s what it was for Pink Floyd – The last album they would make with Roger Waters. For the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 2004
UNTIL AUTUMN 1986, Pink Floyd was the invisible band. Their fame and fortune huge, their individual members anonymous. The arrangement always looked a perfect fit ...
Interview by Andy Gill, The Word, December 2004
If the world-beating line-up of Pink Floyd ever flies again you can thank the drummer. Nick Mason tells Andy Gill his peace-keeping personal history of ...
The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
Pink Floyd Tear Down Their Wall
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 June 2005
IT IS THE rock reunion no one believed we would ever see – including the band members. Pink Floyd, who endured one of the most ...
Pink Floyd reunion proves that pigs can fly
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 30 June 2005
ROGER WATERS, whose first phone call to Dave Gilmour in over 20 years sealed the Live8 deal, has said nothing. Gilmour has muttered off-the-record that ...
David Gilmour: And This Is Me...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2006
STRINGS SHIMMER, a bowed double-bass growls, a saxophone sighs. Heads bowed before the sound desk, David Gilmour and his two engineers listen. Again and again ...
Obituary by Robert Webb, The Independent, 12 July 2006
Reclusive co-founder of Pink Floyd ...
Syd Barrett: Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Obituary by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 12 July 2006
Syd Barrett, the most famous recluse in rock, is dead. It would be easy to mourn the founder of Pink Floyd as a casualty of ...
Obituary by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 2006
This is the full version of a piece that appeared in Mojo, September 2006 ...
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother Redux
Report by Jim Irvin, The Word, August 2008
IN JUNE 1984, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, unequivocal as always, told Richard Skinner on Radio 1: "If somebody said to me now: 'Right...here's a million ...
Pink Floyd: See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon
Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 7 August 2008
THE STATISTICS, as Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason puts it, "make staggering reading." ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 16 September 2008
Keyboard player and founder member of Pink Floyd ...
Pink Floyd: Prog rockers strike a blow for all musical artists
Comment by David Stubbs, The Independent, 12 March 2010
PINK FLOYD'S legal victory over EMI may be welcomed by some as a victory for artistic integrity. ...
Vinyl Icon: Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, September 2010
IT'S WRIT large in pop history that The Beatles spent the spring of 1967 recording their classic Sgt Pepper album in EMI's Abbey Road Studio ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, September 2011
1989, JULY 15: 200,000 fans and 100m satellite TV viewers worldwide watch Pink Floyd play a spectacular free show from a barge floating in the ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, November 2016
LAST MONTH WE looked at Syd's childhood and the birth of Pink Floyd up to releasing 'Arnold Layne'. ...
Pink Floyd: The Final Cut – A Requiem For The Post War Dream/ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, March 2017
THOUGH THEY represent the opposing extremes of Pink Floyd's often tortured psyche, there, in fact, are many similarities between 1983's The Final Cut and 1987's A Momentary Lapse ...
Their Mortal Remains: Pink Floyd at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, July 2017
AT THE START of the V&A's Pink Floyd exhibition there is a photograph of the first ever van that transported the four-man group and their ...
Nick Mason: "In theory, I should have got better over the last 50 years…"
Report and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, July 2018
Nick Mason on the past, present and future of his time-travelling new Floyd project, Saucerful Of Secrets… ...
Guide by Steve Matteo, Boomer, 17 August 2018
Recent books by and about favorite boomer musicians and influencers ...
Gotta Stem The Evil Tide: Pink Floyd and Throbbing Gristle
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2021
THROBBING GRISTLE became a cause celebre in October 1976, with their Prostitution Exhibition at the ICA. Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn called the noise terrorists "Wreckers ...
Raving and drooling: How Pink Floyd made Animals
Retrospective by Daryl Easlea, Prog, January 2021
Pink Floyd's Animals was released in 1977, but its themes continue to strike a chord in the modern day. ...
Bhaskar Menon: Former Capitol Colleagues Remember EMI Music Chief
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 6 March 2021
BHASKAR MENON, EMI Music Worldwide founding chairman and CEO and one of the record industry's most respected leaders, died at his home in Beverly Hills ...
see also Syd Barrett
see also David Gilmour
see also Roger Waters
see also Rick Wright
see also Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
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