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A brief history of the greatest band to ever
exist.
The Pink Floyd Sound
It all began in 1965 when Syd Barrett, Bob Close,
Rick Wright, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters joined a band called Sigma 6. Soon,
Close left the band, missing the chance of a lifetime, and all the earlier
members of the band had gone their own ways.
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It all began in 1965 when Syd Barrett, Bob Close, Rick Wright, Nick Mason,
and Roger Waters joined a band called Sigma 6. Soon, Close left the band,
missing the chance of a lifetime, and all the earlier members of the band had
gone their own ways. All that was left now was a guitarist (Syd Barrett), a
bassist (Roger Waters), a pianist (Rick Wright), and a drummer (Nick Mason). The
band had many names at different times such as, The Screaming Abdabs, T-Set, The
Meggadeaths, and The Architectural Abdabs, until Syd came up with the name The
Pink Floyd Sound, inspired by two jazz artists Pink Anderson, and Floyd Council. |
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album "Piper At The Gates of Dawn" they used the name "The Pink Floyd" and the
word, "The" , was dropped for their next album A Saucerful Of Secrets. Before
the release of Piper the Floyd had released several singles such as Arnold Lane,
and See Emily Play. Syd was heavily involved into LSD, which was legal at the
time, and was having trouble dealing with all the pressure of being a star. So
they hired Dave Gilmour, Syd's old friend to play rhythm guitar. Syd's condition
got worse and the band decided not to pick him up one night. That was the end of
Syd.
The new foursome released albums such as More, Ummagumma, Atom heart Mother,
Relics, Meddle, and Obscured By Clouds. Floyd were having trouble trying to find
a style, and were still sounding like the band when Syd was present.
Then they released The Dark Side of the Moon. The Dark Side of The Moon sold
over 25 million copies world wide, and remained on the billboard charts for 14
years, proving to be one of the greatest albums ever. The Floyd were having
troubles creating something of equal quality to Dark Side.
The release of Wish You Were Here proved that Floyd were a very unique band.
They released an album called Animals, known as the forgotten album, and then
the album called The Wall followed. Roger was upset with Wright and wanted to
fire him after the wall tour. The Floyd released another album without Wright
called The Final Cut and then Roger left the band. It was in 1987 when Gilmour
and Mason rejoined under the name Floyd and made an album called A Momentary
Lapse of Reason.
Then Wright joined them for the world tour. In 1994 Pink Floyd came out with
the album The Division Bell and later released Pulse.
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