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 THE WALL

 

This biography was taken from the pirate album :

Pink Floyd - Total Eclipse - A retrospective 1967-1993

C'est un bon pirate; il n'est pas tout à fait ... complet, pour une rétrospective, mais il est assez consistant et regroupe pas mal de versions Live ( pas de qualité studio, certes ), mais néanmoins très sympathiques.

Si vous passez un jour devant, je vous conseille vivement de l'acheter; c'est un très bon investissement. Je sais qu'il a été diffusé à plusieurs milliers d'exemplaires. Si vous l'avez et que vous souhaitez vous en débarrasser, je suis toujours preneur.

 

Mais où en étions nous ? Ah ! Oui ! La Biographie... C'est quelques milliers de caractères mis bouts à bouts pour le plus grand plaisir de votre culture générale. Lisez-la, comme ça vous pourrez toujours dire à vos amis : " JE me suis tapé la biog' des Floyd, et en Anglais, avec ça !" . Je vous promets, ça en jette !!!

 

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• The Syd Barrett Years

The impropriety of the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco created the atmosphere whereby the International Times (IT) and the London Underground sprang to life. As the first British underground newspaper, IT was developed by Barry Miles and John Hopkins with intentions of discerning the cultural rise of psychedelia. After pulling together a sizeable staff and gaining a couple short-term loans, Miles and Hopkins were ready to launch their newspaper. Utilising north London's Roundhouse and the inexperienced services of a band named Pink Floyd, IT was set into motion in October, 1966.

Not long after its first issue however, IT began to lose money. Sensing an end to the magazine, John Hopkins teamed up with Joe Boyd and opened the Friday night UFO (Unlimited Freak Out) Club in West London to provide IT with needed cash flow. Billed as London's farthest-out group, Pink Floyd played UFO’s opening night where they almost instantly became the house favourite. That night's extended improvisations and accompanying light show marked the psychedelic style for which the Floyd became renowned. Previously called Sigma 6, T-Set, The Meggadeaths, and The Architectural and Screaming Abdabs, founding father Syd Barrett finally named the band Pink Floyd after his two Georgia-blues guitar heroes, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Originally Roger Waters played lead guitar and Rick Wright rhythm guitar while Clive Metcalf played bass until his departure shortly after the band formed. When Bob Close and Syd Barrett joined the band, Roger was demoted from Lead guitar to rhythm guitar to bass guitar with Rick moving to keyboards. Not really fitting in, Bob Close departed Leaving the early Floyd fine-up as Syd Barrett (guitar and vocals), Roger Waters (bass), Richard Wright (keyboards), and Nick Mason (who always was and still is the drummer). Sadly, that fine-up did not last long as Barrett’s mental condition rapidly declined because of his massive abuse of LSD. Pink Floyd were signed by EMI in 1967 and "Arnold Layne" was quickly released as their first single. Later yanked by Radio London because of the song's objectionable lyrics, "Arnold Layne" not-so-blatantly deals with a transvestite who endeavours to steal madam's dainties from clothes lines. That same year, Pink Floyd released their second single "See Emily Play" and their first full-length album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. These releases led them to their first tour of the United States where Syd's drug problem became apparent. During the U-S- tour at the end of 1967, Pat Boone attempted to interview Syd on national television but received only blank stores in response to his questions. The following day Pink Floyd were embarrassed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand when Syd decided not to lip-sync to Arnold Layne and See Emily Play, but rather gaze psychotically into the living rooms of mainstream America. The remainder of the tour was cancelled due to Syd's catatonic behaviour. A month later David Gilmour was asked to join the band. Acting as a rive piece band for a few months in early 1968, Pink Floyd recorded "A Saucerful of Secrets". A transitional album in that Syd was being phased out and Dave was being worked in, A Saucerful of Secrets proved to be the foundation from which the "new" Pink Floyd would build upon. Finally leaving Pink Floyd in April of 1968, Syd Barrett did indeed become a casualty of the Lifestyle that made him a star and a legend. Notably, Roger Waters, surely the most dominating personality in the band, began to take charge of the band's direction and their affairs after Syd's departure. The same day "A Saucerful of Secrets" was released, Pink Floyd (Syd-less) performed the first free concert in Hyde Park to promote the new album. Being the first rock concert held in a park, the event co-ordinator, Blackhill Enterprises, performed miracles of persuasion on the Bailiff of the Royal Parks to allow it to occur.

The Hyde Park concert's success ensured free summer concerts there for years to come.

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• The New Pink Floyd

While touring "A Saucerful of Secrets" in the U-K-, Europe, and the U-S- and recording the soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's film "More", Pink Floyd blindly popped in and out of the studio to record a new album without having had a bit of music prepared. Stemming from Rick Wright's discontent with Pink Floyd's music to date (and having some solo material at hand), the album "Ummagumma" (meaning "a bit of the other") developed into a series of solo compositions with each bond member being responsible for their own piece. Also added to Ummagumma was a second album containing live material recorded in April and May of 1969 at Mother's Club and Manchester College of Commerce. After touring for a few months alter the release of "Ummagumma", Pink Floyd recorded several songs for the soundtrack to Michealangelo Antonioni's film "Zabriskie Point".

"Atom Heart Mother" was released fate 1970 and became Floyd's first #1 LP in the U-K- Apart from being their most successful album up to that point, Atom Heart Mother was the first time they had the opportunity to fully experiment with a wide range of sound effects and conceptual themes. the name "Atom Heart Mother" arose from a newspaper heading about a baby being kept alive by an atomic pacemaker. the title sang had been premiered earlier in the year in Paris. With each successive performance, "Atom Heart Mother" evolved into the orchestral suite that would eventually appear on the album. More importantly, "Atom Heart Mother" marked Pink Floyd's passage into the realm of lengthy songs amidst a fury of sound effects which proved to be the basis for future albums. Subsequent to "Atom Heart Mother's" release, Pink Floyd toured Europe (twice) and the USA, occasionally performing "One of These Days" and "Echoes" before their release on "Meddle" in October of 1971. Pink Floyd usually developed their tunes while touring which would then be followed by stints in the studio.

"Meddle" was the first indication that the Floyd had finally found something which eluded them for years - direction. Culminating with their masterpiece? 'Echoes", Gilmour said, "It definitely, for me, achieved something very good and strong.'? From Rick's opening piano note sent through a Binson echo unit, to the mid-section lead by Roger's bass fine, and to Dave's resonant guitar technique, "Echoes" remains a favourite amongst fans and the band themselves.

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• A Piece for Assorted Lunatics

Embarking on a world tour in early 1972, Pink Floyd not only had material from "Meddle" to perform but also a new suite called "Eclipsed". Much shorter than its final recorded version, "Eclipsed" would later be known as the Dark Side of the Moon . The difference is that the live performances of "Eclipsed" contained more guitar joins and piano parts with fewer synthesisers. Also, "The Dark Side of the Moon" contains a completely different "On The Run" which was conceived in the studio along with "Speak to Me". Previously performed in two sections (a keyboard passage with Bible readings followed by other spoken bits and a keyboard instrumental), the final version "of The Great Gig in the Sky" changed in the studio also. Written by Rick Wright and passionately sung by Clare Torry, "Great Gig" was inspired by Rick's fear of dying.

Appropriately transcending any spoken or sung words, "Great Gig" leads the listener, via panicky screams and soothing moans towards a weary acceptance of death's mission. After touring the world using "Eclipsed" as the first half of their show, Pink Floyd were quite familiar with the material while recording it in the studio. This allowed them to properly add sound effects while not over-burdening the piece.

With "The Dark Side of the Moon's" release in 1973, Pink Floyd finally achieved the coveted status of rock super group. "The Dark Side of the Moon" has since sold a staggering 25 million copies world-wide and remained on the U-S- charts for 740 weeks (250 weeks longer than its Closest competitor - Johnny Matthis' Greatest Hits)! This album proved to be not only Pink Floyd's largest commercial success, but also The Dark Side of the Moon enabled them to rid the critic's belief that the Floyd were Nothing after Syd Barrett's departure.

Largely touring the U-S- immediately before and after "The Dark Side of the Moon's" release, Pink Floyd packed up and flew to tour Europe (mainly France) before returning to the U-K- for a winter tour in late 1974.

Adding "Raving and Drooling" ( which was called Sheep later ) , "You Gotta Be Crazy", and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" to their set list, they were once again touring material that would later appear on albums. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which would become the centrepiece for 1975's release of "Wish You Were Here",was a tribune to Syd Barrett ("Raving and Drooling" and "You Gotta Be Crazy" didn't appear until 1977's release of "Animals").

By mid-1975, Pink Floyd began recording "Wish You Were Here". Exhausted from extensively touring Dark Side material, personalities dashed and arguments constantly erupted within the band regarding their direction. Roger's emphasis on the theme of insanity and the pitfalls of the record industry were not of major concern to the others. Dave and Rick wanted to expound on the music while Roger wanted increased emphasis on the lyrics.

This struggle proved beneficial for Wish You Were Here (the band sometimes refers to this period as Wish WE Were Here due to their bits of arguing) because it provided the perfect balance between the music and the message. During one session, a fat and bald Syd Barrett visited Pink Floyd, but silently left the studio never to be seen by the band again.

In the midst of the Punk explosion of 1977, the Floyd released "Animals", which also contained a large portion of previously toured material. Containing Pigs, Dogs ("You Gotta Be Crazy"), and Sheep ("Raving and Drooling"), "Animals" eludes to the forthcoming album, "The Wall". As a basis for "The Wall's" character definitions, Animals surely opened the door for Waters to further expound on his hatred for war and money mangers. The analogy of pigs as politicians, dogs as monopolistic industrialists, and sheep as the belittled labouring class draws closely to the symbols used in Orwell's "Animal Farm". Though not well-received, Animals makes the important point of not falling prey to the corrupt tactics of our politicians or allowing oneself to be exploited by the upper class.

Extensively touring "Animals" for a large part of 1977, Pink Floyd's immense popularity resulted in playing to sold out crowds at huge venues. Pink Floyd were now burdened with the job of running through their large set list leaving little or no room for improvisation and experimentation.

Having grown accustomed to performing in smaller (more personal) venues to petite and quiet crowds, the Floyd were now greeted by thousands of screaming fans wanting to hear their radio favourite, "Money". Culminating at Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada), Roger Waters' high-strung perfectionism and demanding expectations of the audience took a rude turn. Taking aim at the face of a particularly obnoxious and annoying fan in the front row, Roger let fly a wad of spit.

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• Over The Wall

For the next two years, Roger went into hiding. During this period, lie wrote what is arguably rock's magnum opus - "The Wall". About this album, one of my friend told me once that Waters convocate Gilmour, Mason and Wright on the studio and gave them the partitions. So to speak, it wasn’t any more " Pink Floyd, The Wall " but " Pink Floyd plays : Roger Waters’ Wall " . Partly autobiographical, The Wall is a sad but important story, travelling the psychological tragedy of Pink, a degenerate rock star going mad by building a watt of misconstrued emotional turmoil between himself and the outside world. The Wall in its infant stage was a lot longer and lyric-laden with less of the distinctive music later found on the final version. Though scaling over 15 million copies, Pink Floyd only performed The Wall thirty Times to a live audience. The USA, UK, and West Germany were the only fortunate countries to cater these concerts.

While performing The Wall live, camera crews filmed the shows for later inclusion in The Wall concert movie. Though a Wall movie did materialise in mid-1982, directed by Alan Parker ,along with alternative versions of Mother ( We insisted to put the version from the film in our album, which amazingly corresponds to album’s lyrics . Note that the song and its lyrics does not correspond each other, in the album mastered in 1994 ... ) and In The Flesh and the new When the Tigers Broke free, the concert footage was abandoned. Basically ending up as a music video for the entire double album, little dialogue occurs in the film, and what arcs is insignificant to the movie’s theme and plot. The movie Pink Floyd - The Wall utilises the efforts of Bob Geldorf as Pink, Bob Hoskins as Pink's manager, and the incredible artistic talent of Gerald Scarf who brilliantly animated pans of the film. But just as Pink's emotional problems brought about his end in The Wall, the serious lack of communication and unworkable relationship between Roger Waters and David Gilmour threatened the end of Pink Floyd. Originally planning to release an album of new music tram the film of The Wall, Pink Floyd instead opted at Waters' urging to record what would become their last album together, The Final Cut. Dealing once again with his father’s death in World War 2 and the injustice of war, Roger wrote The Final Cut as a requiem for the post war dream. Largely considered a Waters solo effort, The Final Cut would be the impetus behind Roger’s departure from Pink Floyd.

Fading as if the cumulative creativity of Pink Floyd was tapped out, Roger called for the band's dissolution. As expected, the others opposed. Waters pursued legal action but failed to stop Gilmour, Mason, and Wright from recording A Momentary Lapse of Reason and embarking on a mammoth two year tour of the world.

Ending up at Knebworth Park on June 30, 1990, the Waters-less Floyd entranced the crowd with over an hour of their music. One month alter the Floyd's Knebworth performance, Roger Waters and a cast of stars performed The Wall in its entirely at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, to a crowd of over 200,000 fans.

From earning £15 a night in the 60s to grossing over £130 million between 1987 and 1989, Pink Floyd have not Only amassed a sizeable fortune but have given the world a style of music and concept that will never be duplicated nor ever forgotten.

Et l'histoire n'est pas finie !

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 THE WALL

THE WALL

March 28, 2000

The Wall Live - Pink Floyd - 1980-81

"Is there anybody out there?"

   

ROGER WATERS ("..The Wall is part of my narrative, my story, but I think the basic themes resonate in other people. The idea that we, as individuals, generally find it necessary to avoid or deny the painful aspects of our experience, and in fact often use them as bricks in a wall behind which we may sometimes find shelter, but behind which we may just as easily become emotionally immured, is relatively simply stated and easy to grasp. It's one a lot of people grapple with themselves. They recognise it in their own lives..")

("..As to the actual recording and shows, I think they were the best we did together as Pink Floyd. I'm inordinately proud of the work. It has great musical and narrative shape, good tunes and it's a well-crafted piece of rock 'n' roll theatre. Who knows, I'm only 56, but it may well turn out to be the best thing I ever did..")

   

DAVID GILMOUR ("..For me, the best bit of The Wall was standing on top of it. We were a few songs into the second half of the show. The band had been bricked in, the audience left to confront a vast, blank barrier. 'Is there anybody out there?' sang Roger, a tiny figure now appearing stage-right. Then, a trick of the light, there I was, 30 feet up, with the heat of four enormous spotlights at my back, throwing my shadow as far as I could see over the audience..")

("..The sensation was certainly incredible, almost out-of-body. For a few minutes, I was free of the crowd, the band, the 80-strong crew and the headphone-chatter. I didn't have to think where I should be standing for the next number, or direct the backing singers, or cue the roadies. I could simply do the part of my job that I enjoy most: playing the guitar, trying to make it a little better every night..")


NICK MASON ("..What gripped me first about The Wall was the narrative idea. I often think that a thematic peg is the hardest thing to come up with for projects like our's, yet for The Wall it was complete and powerful from the beginning..")


("..What is immensely satisfying to me now is The Wall's obvious longevity. People still talk about the shows and the CD goes on selling. Most rock music is ephemeral, but The Wall apparently isn't. That's surely some testament to the power of its ideas, the power of its music and to its power as a piece of extraordinary theatre..")
   

RICHARD WRIGHT ("..Audiences were mesmerised. Nobody had done anything like it before, nor has there been anything like it since. In some future history of rock shows, I'm quite sure The Wall will feature as one of the most influential and unforgettable..")

("..It was an extraordinary show to have put on and, despite everything, Ienjoyed performing in it. The thing I remember most is the really odd feeling I got from playing without seeing the audience. I suppose it's the way members of an orchestra feel in the pit of a theatre or an opera house, only I wasn't used to it..")

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© 2000 Pink Floyd Music Limited,
under exclusief licence to EMI Records Limited  

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of the original studio album The Wall, Pink Floyd will release Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live, a sonic document of the group's legendary live performances of the groundbreaking tour de force. Is There Anybody Out There?

The Wall Live is in stores (Europe) on March 28, 2000, from EMI Records. The Wall Live is in stores on April 18, 2000, from Columbia Records.
Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live will be available as a deluxe limited-edition double CD set, packaged in a 64-page hardcover casebound book with full-color souvenir artwork from the show. The album will also be available in a double-jewelcase edition as well as a double-cassette. Packaging for Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live is designed by longtime Pink Floyd art director Storm Thorgerson.

Recorded live in 1980-81 by Pink Floyd soundman and co-producer James Guthrie on a 48-track mobile studio during the original Earl's Court, London, concerts, the particular performances on Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live were handpicked by Guthrie, who has created a hi-resolution mix for the CD set from the original multi-track concert recordings.

A pristine composite live performance of The Wall, never-before-available in its entirety, Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live includes never-before-released music including "What Shall We Do Now?" (available on CD for the first time, the song can be heard in the film "Pink Floyd - The Wall") and "The Last Few Bricks" (which has never been previously released in any form).

Released in December 1979, Pink Floyd's The Wall is one of the defining masterpieces of rock culture. Conceived and written by Roger Waters; produced by Roger Waters, Bob Ezrin, and David Gilmour; co-produced and engineered by James Guthrie, the album's ferocity of intelligence and austere depth of musical complexity confounded conventional market wisdom to reach the #1 spot on countless charts around the world while spawning the multi-platinum single and youth anthem "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)." The Wall has earned an astounding 23x platinum certification from the RIAA.

Over the next two years, The Wall was performed live by Pink Floyd in Los Angeles (February 1980), New York (February 1980), Dortmund, Germany (February 1981) and London (August 1980, June 1981). Staging of The Wall was spectacular: room sets appeared within "The Wall," which was built live on-stage; giant puppets were dangled from "The Wall" while crazed animations, created by Gerald Scarfe, were projected onto it. During the show's breathtaking finale, "The Wall" crashed to the ground revealing the band playing in the ruins.

Undiminished by time, Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live is further proof of the abiding musical legacy of Pink Floyd. Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live track listings:

Disc 1

MC: Atmos
In the Flesh
The Thin ice
Another brick in the wall-part 1
The happiest days of our lives
Another brick in the wall-part 1
Mother
Goodbye blue sky
Empty spaces
*What shall we do now?
Young lust
One of my turns
Don't leave me now
Another brick in the wall-part 3
* The last few bricks
Goodbye cruel world

*not on the original studio album 'The Wall'

Disk 2

Hey You
Is there anybody out there?
Nobody home
Vera
Bring the boys back home
Comfortably numb
The schow must go on
MC: Atmos
In the Flesh
Run like hell
Waiting for the worms
Stop
The trial
Outside the wall

Pink Floyd
Roger Waters - David Gilmour - Nick Mason - Richard Wright

withAndy Bown (bass)
Snowy White (guitar 1980)
Andy Roberts (guitar 1981)
Willie Wilson ( drums)
Peter Woods (keyboards)


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 HEY YOU

 

Hey You

From the album "P.U.L.S.E"

Hey you out there in the cold
Getting lonely getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you dont help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.

[Click of TV being turned on]
"Well, only got an hour of daylight left. Better get started"
"Isnt it unsafe to travel at night?"
"It'll be a lot less safe to stay here. You're father's gunna pick up our trail before long"
"Can Loca ride?"
"Yeah, I can ride... Magaret, time to go! Maigret, thank you for everything"
"Goodbye Chenga"
"Goodbye miss ..."
"I'll be back"

tifoosi010@yahoo.com

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Biography:

The journey from R&B cover band to globe-straddling megastars has not been an easy one for Pink Floyd. The myths and the madness have taken their toll in various ways, but the music has always been majestic and mind-blowing.

THE EARLY YEARS

Roger Keith 'Syd' Barrett (born 6 January 1946, Cambridge, England; guitar/vocals), Roger Waters (born 9 September 1944, Cambridge, England; bass/vocals) and David Gilmour (born 6 March 1944, Cambridge, England; guitar/vocals) were pupils and friends at Cambridge High School. Barrett and Gilmour undertook a busking tour of Europe prior to Barrett's enrollment at the Camberwell School Of Art in London. Waters was meanwhile studying architecture at the city's Regent Street Polytechnic. Roger formed Sigma 6 in 1965, with fellow students Nicholas 'Nick' Mason (born 27 January 1945, Birmingham, England; drums) and Richard 'Rick' Wright (born 28 July 1945, London, England; keyboards). This early line-up included bassist Clive Metcalfe with Keith Noble and Juliette Gale (who later married Wright) on vocals. The group took a variety of names, including the T-Set (NOT of "Ma Belle Amie" fame), the Meggadeaths (I wonder if Dave Mustaine knows about this?) and the Abdabs (sometimes known as the Screaming Abdabs).

The nucleus of Waters, Wright and Mason brought in some new talent, jazz guitarist Bob Close and Syd Barrett. Barrett's blend of blues, pop and mysticism was at odds with Close's traditional outlook and the Abdabs fell apart at the end of 1965. Almost immediately Barrett, Waters, Mason and Wright reconvened as the Pink Floyd Sound, a name Syd had suggested, inspired by an album by ancient Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Pink Floyd (having dropped the "Sound" from their name) attracted notoriety as part of the counterculture scene centred on the London Free School. This self-help organisation inspired the founding of Britain's first alternative publication, International Times. The paper was launched at the Roundhouse on 15 October 1966; it was here Pink Floyd made its major debut.

By December the group was appearing regularly at the UFO Club, spearheading Britain's psychedelic movement with extended, improvised sets and a highly visual lightshow. In comparision the band's singles were short slices of pop psychedelia from the mind of Syd Barrett, featuring his quirky melodies and lyrics. 'Arnold Layne', a tale of a transvestite who steals ladies' clothes from washing lines, escaped a BBC ban to rise into the UK Top 20. 'See Emily Play', originally entitled 'Games For May' in honour of an event the group hosted at Queen Elizabeth Hall, reached UK #6 in June 1967. It was succeeded by THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN, which encapsulated Britain's "Summer of Love". Largely Barrett-penned, the set combined childlike fantasy with experimentation, where whimsical pop songs nestled beside riff-laden sorties, notably the lengthy and powerful 'Interstellar Overdrive'. 'See Emily Play' was only released on an album on the US version of PIPER.

Chart success begat package tours which, when combined with a disastrous US tour, wrought unbearable pressure on Barrett's fragile psyche. His indulgence in hallucinogenic drugs exacerbated such problems and he often proved near-comatose on stage and incoherent with interviewers. His colleagues, fearful for their friend and sensing a possible end to the band, brought Dave Gilmour into the line-up in February 1968. Plans for Syd to maintain a backroom role, writing for the group but not touring, came to naught and his departure was announced the following April. He subsequently followed a captivating, but short-lived, solo career.

SECRETS AND SOUNDTRACKS

Although bereft of their principal songwriter, Pink Floyd completed A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS. It featured two pieces destined to become an integral part of their live concerts, the title track itself and 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun'. Non-album singles 'It Would Be So Nice' (a rare Wright original) and 'Point Me At The Sky' were also issued; their failure prompted the group to avoid the single format for 11 years. A film soundtrack, MORE, allowed Waters to flex compositional muscles, while the part-live, part-studio UMMAGUMMA, although dated and self-indulgent by today's standards, was at the vanguard of progressive space-rock in 1969.

3 new recordings appeared in March 1970 on the ZABRISKIE POINT soundtrack, a hippy-flick from Michaelangelo Antonioni, alongside tracks by The Grateful Dead and Patti Page (yes, really). ATOM HEART MOTHER was a brave, if flawed, experiment, partially written with avant-garde composer Ron Geesin. Roger and Ron also collaborated on MUSIC FROM THE BODY, a bizarre soundtrack album for the film "The Body". The music on MEDDLE contained some classic pieces, notably 'One Of These Days' and the epic side-long 'Echoes', but was again marred by inconsistency. February 1972 saw Pink Floyd premiering a new live piece, titled 'Eclipse' or 'Dark Side Of The Moon', but this was not their next album. OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, another hippy-flick soundtrack, was recorded for the film "The Valley" directed by Barbet Schroeder, who also directed "More".

THE GLORY YEARS

Pink Floyd finally exploded in March 1973 with DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. It marked the arrival of Waters as an important lyricist and Gilmour as a guitar hero. Brilliantly produced, the album became one of the biggest-selling records of all time. Alan Parsons was the engineer on this masterpiece of sonic brilliance. Sound effects, stereo imaging, voice-overs and hidden snippets encouraged the listener to immerse himself in this epic album of alienation and paranoia. Its astonishing run on the Billboard chart spanned over a decade and at last the group had rid itself of the spectre of the Barrett era. Perhaps with this in mind, a moving eulogy to their former member, 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', was one of the highpoints of WISH YOU WERE HERE. However it was with ANIMALS that tension within the band leaked into the public arena. Two of its tracks, 'Sheep' and 'Dogs', were reworkings of older live material and, as one of the world's most successful bands, Pink Floyd were cited as one of the dinosaurs that sparked the 1977 punk movement.

At the end of the year, almost as a backlash, Nick Mason produced The Damned's MUSIC FOR PLEASURE. Wright and Gilmour both released solo albums in 1978 as rumours of a break-up abounded. In 1979, however, the group unleashed THE WALL, a Waters-dominated epic that has now become second only to DARK SIDE OF THE MOON in terms of sales. A subtly screened autobiographical journey, THE WALL allowed the bassist to vent his anger and scorn on a succession of establishment talismen. It contained the anti-educational system diatribe, 'Another Brick In The Wall', which not only restored the group to the British singles chart, but provided them with their sole number 1 hit. A film followed in 1982, starring Bob Geldof as Pink, and featuring ground-breaking animation by Gerald Scarfe, who designed the album jacket.

AFTER THE WALL

The success of THE WALL did nothing to ease Pink Floyd's internal hostility. Considered by many to actually be the "first" Roger Water's solo album, THE FINAL CUT was a stark, humourless set that Waters totally dominated. The following year Waters began a high-profile but commercially moribund solo career. Mason and Gilmour also issued solo albums (Wright completed his in 1978), but none of these releases came close to the success of their former group. Waters released THE PROS AND CONS OF HITCH-HIKING, RADIO KAOS and contributed to the WHEN THE WIND BLOWS soundtrack.

THE RETURN

In 1987 Mason and Gilmour decided to resume work together under the Pink Floyd banner; Rick Wright also returned, albeit as a salaried member. Waters instigated an injunction, which was over-ruled, allowing temporary use of the name. A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON, sounded more like a Pink Floyd album than its sombre "predecessor," despite the muted input of Wright and Mason. Instead Gilmour relied on session musicians, including Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music. A massive world tour began in September that year, culminating 12 months and 200 concerts later. A live set, DELICATE SOUND OF THUNDER, followed in its wake but, more important, the rigours of touring rekindled Wright and Mason's confidence. Roger Waters led an all-star cast (Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, amongst others) for an extravagant adaptation of THE WALL, performed live on the remains of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Despite international television coverage, the show failed to re-ignite his fortunes. In 1994 his former colleagues released THE DIVISION BELL, an accomplished set that may yet enter the Pink Floyd lexicon as one of their finest achievements.

Waters released his AMUSED TO DEATH album with inspired guitar-work from Jeff Beck. With Wright a full-time member again and Mason on sparkling form, Pink Floyd embarked on another lengthy tour, judiciously balancing old and new material. The band also showcased their most spectacular lightshow to date during these performances. The 2CD set PULSE cashed in on the success of the tours and was a perfectly recorded live album. The album, which featured a full-length live version of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, achieved number 1 status in both the US and UK. A limited edition of only 2 million copies (how many bands would love to say that?) featured a flashing LED on the very unique packaging.

Pink Floyd have a huge and ever-increasing fanbase, a great number of whom were born after DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and are unaware that Syd Barrett was ever a member. Pink Floyd has always been bigger than the individuals that created it and those that continue to nurture it. The legend lives on and on...

Postscript (March 2002): Roger Waters started his "In The Flesh 2002" world tour in Cape Town on the 27th February. Meanwhile Dave Gilmour admits, in the February 2002 issue of Classic Rock magazine, that he finds it difficult to get into a Pink Floyd frame of mind these days.

Written by Brian Currin and originally published on the Images Of Rock website in 1999.

Discography:

Pink Floyd



• The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
  slightly different track listing in US and UK - US version includes 'See Emily Play', for example
• A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
• More (1969) soundtrack
• Ummagumma (1969) half-studio/ half-live
• Zabriskie Point - Various Artists (1970) soundtrack featuring 3 rare Pink Floyd tracks
• The Best Of Pink Floyd (US-only compilation) (1970)
• Atom Heart Mother (1970)
• Relics (compilation of rarities) (1971)
• Meddle (1971)
• Obscured By Clouds (1972) soundtrack for 'The Valley'
• The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
• A Nice Pair (1974) 'Piper' and 'Saucerful' repackaged
• Masters Of Rock Volume 1 (1974) Europe-only, same as 'The Best Of Pink Floyd' from 1970
• Wish You Were Here (1975)
• Animals (1977) 8-track version is slightly different, more here...
• The Wall (1979)
• A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (compilation) (1981)
• The Other Side Of The Wall South Africa-only re-packaging of 'Wish' & 'Animals' (1982)
• The Final Cut (1983)
• Works (US-only compilation) (1983)
• A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)
• Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Live) (1988)
• Shine On (9CD Box Set) (1992)
• The Early Singles (1992) only available as part of 'Shine On' box set
• A CD Full Of Secrets (compilation) (1992) radio only promo disc
• The Division Bell (1994)
• Pulse (Live) (1995)
• London '66-'67 (1995) mini-album with 2 long & rare tracks from 1967
• Zabriskie Point - Various Artists (1997) 2CD re-issue now featuring 7 rare Pink Floyd tracks
• Is There Anybody Out There? - The Wall Live 1980/81 (2000)
• Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd (November 2001)
  
  Roger Waters
  
  
• Music From The Body (with Ron Geesin) (1970)
• Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984)
• When The Wind Blows - Various Artists (soundtrack, half of album by Roger Waters) (1986)
• Radio KAOS (1987)
• The Wall Live In Berlin (1990) with various guests
• Amused To Death (1992)
• In The Flesh (Live) (2000)
• Flickering Flame - The Solo Years Volume 1 [2002]

Fantasy collections:

These CDs are part of my series of imaginary compilations, where official CDs are non-existent or inadequate in my opinion.

• Comfortably Numb - The Best Of Pink Floyd
• Welcome To The Machine - The Best Of Roger Waters
• A Box Set Full Of Secrets (a collection of of non-album tracks, session tracks, live recordings, single edits, demos and other obscure rarities)
• Point Me At the Sky - The Best Of Pink Floyd
• Memories, Madness and Music - Pink Floyd & Roger Waters (a collection of hits, memories and obscurities)
• The Complete Wall
• Complete KAOS
• Animals (the 8-track version)
• Echoes Plus

Webpages:

Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyd Quick Guide

Pink Floyd Online

Pink Floyd Discography

Pink Floyd Fan Network

A Fleeting Glimpse

In The Flesh 2002

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Another Brick In The Wall

 
by Pink Floyd

"You! Yes, you, stand still laddy!"

When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psycopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

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PINK FLOYD CONCERT 1988,WESTERN SPRINGS,AUCKLAND

Αγαπημένη έκφραση

·  HEY YOU ANOTHER BRICK ON THE WALL

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 عکس

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 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

 

"The Dark Side Of The Moon"

"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

(Instrumental)

Breathe
(Waters, Gilmour, Wright) 2:44

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

On The Run
(Gilmour, Waters) 3:32

[female announcer, announcing flights at airport, including 'Rome']
"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"

(Instrumental)

Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Breathe (reprise)
7:06

Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

The Great Gig in the Sky
(Wright) 4:44

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."

"If you can hear this whispering you are dying."

"I never said I was frightened of dying."

(Instrumental)

Money
(Waters) 6:32

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.

"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"

Us and Them
(Waters, Wright) 7:40

Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.

"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short,
sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off
lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners
don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

Any Colour You Like
(Gilmour, Mason, Wright) 3:25

(Instrumental)

Brain Damage
(Waters) 3:50

The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!"

Eclipse
(Waters) 2:04

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

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