Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd is an English psychedelic and progressive rock band, formed in London in 1965, by some members of a band called The Abdabs. Their former members were Syd Barret (singer and guitarist), Bob Klose (guitarist), Roger Waters (bass player),Richard Wright (keyboardist) and Nick Mason (drummer), but Bob Klose only recorded the first single of the band, “Arnold Layne”. Their first album, “The piper at the gates of dawn”, released in 1967, was almost entirely composed by Syd Barret, who had to leave the band the following year because of drug problems. By that time, David Gilmour, a new guitarist and, later, singer (with Roger Waters), joined the band. They became famous with popular albums like “The dark side of the moon” (containing the hits “Money”, “Brain damage”, “The great gig in the sky” and others), “Wish you were here”, which is dedicated to Syd Barret, “Animals”, and the double album “The Wall”; by the time of that release, Roger Waters and David Gilmour had been arguing for long years, and Waters finally left the band. In the eighties, he wanted to have the rights of Pink Floyd, but the other three members won the trial, and made two more albums and many videos with other additional personnel, until they separated in 1995. The members of the most succesful time of the band played two more concerts as Pink Floyd, one in 2003 and the other in 2007 (the last one in history, because Richard Wright died in 2008).


By Catriel and Lucas