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The founding members of Pink Floyd were Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright, who enrolled at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street in September 1962 to study architecture, [2] and Syd Barrett, two years younger than the rest of the band, who had moved to London in 1964 to study at the Camberwell College of Arts. [3]
Pink Floyd were an English rock band founded in late 1965 by Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals. [1]
David Jon Gilmour was born on 6 March 1946 in Cambridge, England. [5] He has three siblings: Peter, Mark and Catharine. [6] His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge, and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a trained teacher who later worked as a film editor for the BBC. [7]
Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1985, didn’t take part. Gilmour, Mason and Pratt hadn’t recorded music together since the band’s keyboard player, Rick Wright, died in 2008.
Pink Floyd released their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967. [6] Mason has played on every Pink Floyd album since. [7] The only Pink Floyd compositions credited solely to Mason are "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" (from Ummagumma) and "Speak to Me" (from The Dark Side of the Moon). [7] The track "Nick's Boogie" was named ...
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
Alan Parsons OBE (born 20 December 1948) [2] is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer.. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975.
INTERVIEW: The guitarist and his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, talk to Geordie Greig about collaborating on his new album, the secret of their lasting love, their fears about mortality, and why ...