************************************************** Associated acts: Sigma 6, Joker's Wild, Zee, Deep End ************************************************** -> is: Syd Barrett(R.I.P.) Dave Gilmour Nick Mason Roger Waters Rick Wright(R.I.P.) ************************************************** www.pinkfloyd.co.uk ************************************************** Pink Floyd ist eine 1964 gegründete britische Rockband. Mit ihrer Musik und der klanglichen und visuellen Gestaltung ihrer Platten und Bühnenauftritte schuf sie, begleitet von großem kommerziellen Erfolg, einen unverwechselbaren und völlig neuartigen Stil. Weltweit wurden mehr als 300 Millionen Alben von Pink Floyd verkauft. > Unter der Regie des Sängers und Gitarristen Syd Barrett gehörte die Band zunächst zur britischen Psychedelic-Rock-Bewegung. Nach dem drogenbedingten Ausstieg des Frontmanns entwickelten die verbleibenden Mitglieder einen eigenständigen Stil mit Einflüssen aus Progressive Rock, Blues, Jazz und klassischer Musik. > Nach einem letzten gemeinsamen Auftritt im Jahr 2005 und dem Tod des Keyboarders Richard Wright 2008 sind zukünftige Aktivitäten der verbliebenen Mitglieder David Gilmour und Nick Mason als Pink Floyd weitgehend unwahrscheinlich. Das letzte Studioalbum der Band mit begleitender Tour wurde bereits 1994 veröffentlicht. ************************************************* > Pink Floyd Website: www.pinkfloyd.co.uk Pink Floyd were an English rock band. They performed for more than 30 years, and have sold more than 675 million (675,000,000) albums. They were named by Syd Barrett after the blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. > Syd Barrett started the group, and played guitar and sang in the band. He left soon after, at the start of 1968, because of mental illness that was made worse by heavy drug use. The other people in the band were Roger Waters (bass guitar and vocals), David Gilmour (lead guitar and vocals), Richard Wright (keyboard and vocals), and Nick Mason (drums). David Gilmour joined the band in 1968. Roger Waters quit the band in 1985. > During most of their career, they played a kind of rock music that some people call progressive rock. One of their most famous albums is Dark Side Of The Moon, which was released in 1973. It stayed on music charts for a very long time, and sold millions of copies. > The original members of Pink Floyd met in an architectural college. The band started as a blues band. Later, under Syd Barrett's leadership, they played music that was psychedelic in style. After Barrett left the band, they started to play longer and more complicated songs, and to play at a lot of colleges and universities. Soon, they were famous as studio musicians who loved to experiment with music. On the album Atom Heart Mother, from 1970, they used a brass band and a choir. > They used a lot of things to make their concerts interesting to watch. They had a round movie screen on the stage. They would show videos on the screen when they played. They also used lighting and lasers in a much fancier way than many bands do. They also had big balloon puppets. The most famous is in the shape of a pig, which first appeared on the cover for their album, Animals. The pig has become a symbol of Pink Floyd. Another symbol that reminds people of Pink Floyd is a prism with light shining through it. This was the cover of Dark Side of the Moon, one of their most popular albums. > The album The Wall, recorded in 1979, was also famous. It was made into a movie, directed by Alan Parker, in 1982. That album is important to the history of the group. It talks about the distance they put between them and their fans. It was the last album they all worked on together before starting to split up. > Roger Waters forced Richard Wright to leave the band in 1979, but Wright came back in 1987, after Waters quit. Waters tried to sue the other members so that they could not call themselves Pink Floyd without him, but he did not succeed. Because of this and other reasons, there was a lot of anger and bitterness between Waters and the other members of the band, especially Gilmour. > The last album of new songs that Pink Floyd released is called The Division Bell. It was made in 1994, when Pink Floyd also played their last concert tour. The very last time that Pink Floyd played was in 2005, as part of the Live 8 concerts for charity. Waters sang with the band for the first time since leaving the band. It was a big surprise to many people who thought Pink Floyd would never play together again, especially not with Roger Waters. > Syd Barrett died of cancer in 2006. Richard Wright died in 2008, also of cancer. David Gilmour has said that without Richard Wright, there is no Pink Floyd anymore. ************************************************** HAVE A CIGAR (Waters) Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, fly high, You're never gonna die, You're gonna make it if you try; They're gonna love you. Well I've always had a deep respect, And I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink? And did we tell you the name of the game, boy, We call it Riding the Gravy Train. We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out. You gotta get an album out. You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count. Everybody else is just green, Have you seen the chart? It's a helluva start, It could be made into a monster If we all pull together as a team. And did we tell you the name of the game, boy, We call it Riding the Gravy Train. **************************************************