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This is not just a lens about Pink Floyd - this is a lens where you can experience Pink Floyd - from the early days of the UFO club in London to the final reunion at Live 8 and beyond through the eyes of a lifelong fan - My first live gig - June 1970 - Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music.
This is my tribute to the Greatest Rock Band ever. I discovered them first in late 1969 and became a lifelong fan. Recently I discovered a huge repository of Video footage of the band on YouTube and am now scouring its archives to bring together my favourite collection.
There are lots of other Squidoo lenses each with its own focus - you will find them all here - and links to the best sites I can find.
I am creating this lens as a great place to start explore, experience and discover this magnificent band - and a few surprises even for ardent fans - I hope you like it.
Pink Floyd - an Incomparable Band
A life time of influence
If you have never been to a live Pink Floyd gig it may be difficult to understand what all the fuss is about this band. Quite literally they have set the stand for live shows - nothing I have ever attended can even be compared with the sheer spectacal and enormity of a Pink Floyd gig.This is my tribute to a phenomenal band and a major influence on my life. I have been a fan since 1969 when I bought a Saucerful of Secrets and have every album released by the band or any of its individual members - plus a few extras I have acquired along the way, movie soundtracks, sampler LPs and bootleg versions of gigs and radio performances never otherwise released.
In all that's 50 CD's and most of the early stuff also on vinal - plus Videos and DVDs of their live performances. But this is more than a discography. I have recently discovered the huge huge wealth of Pink Floyd video clips on YouTube and am working my way though them picking the best or the rarest clips to feature here.
There are other fans who have squidoo lenses and sites and I am not going to try to replicate the great work they are doing - I will link to the best so that you can explore their work yourself.
This is a place to explore Pink Floyd if you do not really know them, especially early pink floyd from the late sixties and early seventies. It's place to extend your knowlesdge of Pink Floyd if you know and love them - I keep finding something new every day. And if you are a serious fan it's a place to meet another fan and perhaps share a few thoughts.
The Pink Floyd Story - Musical Documentaries
Great early stuff - and the most recent
Pink Floyd - "Echoes" Best Of TV Spot Pt 1
Pink Floyd - "Echoes" Best Of TV Spot Pt 2
The Last Show
Pink Floyd Live at Live-8
Pink Floyd - The Band members
Curtesy of Wikipedia
- Pink Floyd
- Pink Floyd - the Band - this is a really comprehensive article on Wikipedia with links to full articles on most of thier albums, films and individual band member projects.
- Syd Barrett
- Syd Barrett - born Roger Keith Barrett - January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, England - Died July 7, 2006 Cambridge, England
- Roger Waters
- Roger Waters - born George Roger Waters on September 6, 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey near Leatherhead, and grew up in Cambridge.
- David Gilmour
- Dave Gilmour - born David Jon Gilmour on March 6, 1946 in Cambridge, England
- Nick Mason
- Nick Mason born Nicholas Berkeley Mason on January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England
- Richard Wright
- Rick Wright - born Richard William Wright on July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London, England
The first Albums
Relics
1971
Really a compilation album of some of the best from the early years but as it included a number of trasks not previously released on an album it was treated by many fans as another album at the time and was certainly one of my favourites.
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Early Pink Floyd
Some very rare video clips I found on YouTube
Pink Floyd Scarecrow
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Rare Corporal Clegg video, Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd Funky Dung (Atom Heart Mother) KQED
Albums from the Syd Barrett Influence
Pink Floyd - the Middle Years
Albums from the Middle Years
Pink Floyd - The Later Years
Albums from the SuperGroup Era
Film Soundtracks
Featuring Pink Floyd Music
Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Music from The Body
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When the Wind Blows
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Obscured by Clouds
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Pink Floyd on DVD
A small selection of DVDs featuring the music of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
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Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (Jewel Case)
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Pink Floyd - Pulse
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The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
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Crystal Voyager [Region 4]
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Pink Floyd Web Links
A selection of the best links I have found
- Atom Heart Mother
- Atom Heart Mother is my favourite album of all time. If you read the band members comments it might put you off - but if you were ever into LSD - this album reflects that experience. Floyd used an orchestra and choir in this album and were never really able to perform the music live to that standard without which may be why they put it down. It is very differerent from the later better known material following Dark Side of the Moon and I still love to sit back, especially after a nice joint and drift ways to Atom Heart Mother.
- PinkFloyd . com
- Official US Pink Floyd Web site.
- Pink Floyd..co.uk
- The Official UK Pink Floyd Site
- Neptune Pink Floyd - News Photos Video large Forum torrent downloads and more!
- World's largest Pink Floyd Community! Enter for free MP3, News, Photos and more...
- Roger Waters
- The world premiere of an open air production of Roger Waters' Ça Ira, in Poznan, Poland, on August 25, 2006 an opera in three acts for full orchestra, soloists and choir.
Full details of Roger Waters tour dates - David Gilmour - The Voice and Guitar of Pink Floyd
- Official site of David Gilmour, guitarist and vocalist with Pink Floyd, and voted No. 1 in Fender's Greatest Players poll in the February 2006 Guitarist magazine in the UK.
- Pink Floyd: Another Link on the Wall
- Very comprehensive site of links to everything Pink Floyd - some of the destinations are mopre passion than quality - but that is what makes them interesting.
Add Your Own Floyd Link on the Wall
Pink Floyd on Squidoo
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- The Pink Floyd World
- True fascination of the band Pink Floyd is the reason why I bring this lens to you. Get the latest news and rumours.You'll find news, special breaking news, feeds articles, links to tons of Pink Floyd fan sites, the official and the unofficials.
- Pink Floyd
- So you think you can tell...None of us can, really.Here's a virtual toast to some of the greatest music to have been created!
- The Pink Floyd Discography
- This is the complete official Pink Floyd discography, with or without Syd Barret and Roger Waters - This discography contains no bootleg/pirate versions... otherwise, the discography may be the double size!
- Pink Floyd
- This band defined the landscape of psychedelia music. Cambridge England's most successful rock combo. Secerts of the 60s acid underground, who went on to define studio production and rock music in the 70s and 80s.
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- Pink Floyd Early Pink Floyd recordings make space travel superfluous so long as we have keyboards here on Earth. Back when enigmatic lyricist and acid-eater extraordinaire Syd Barrett skippered the ship, the Floyd sounded something like Monty Python with instruments -- quirky, trippy and weird.
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CleanerLife
Nice tribute to my favorite group! Too bad about the Live-8 clip -- I hope that show won't go down in history as the final performance of Dave, Roger, Richard and Nick together! Posted August 19, 2008 |
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Good-Music
Hello, Posted December 10, 2007 |
i have been a fan since i was 10.i am 40 now.i listen to currant music.alternative rock,system of a down,chill peppers and so frth.the floyd by far is my favorite band.they stillhold up after all these years.they just seem to get into my head and speak to mein such a profound way musically
Posted October 12, 2007
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BigJim
Great Lens. Thanks for being a part of the Classic Rock Posted March 08, 2007 |
