Pink Floyd Wikipedia. Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1. They achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. Distinguished by their use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, extended compositions, and elaborate live shows, they are one of the most commercially successful and influential groups of popular music history. Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals. They gained popularity performing in Londons underground music scene during the late 1. Barretts leadership released two charting singles and a successful debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1. Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined in December 1. Barrett left in April 1. Waters became the bands primary lyricist and conceptual leader, devising the concepts behind their albums The Dark Side of the Moon 1. Wish You Were Here 1. Animals 1. 97. 7, The Wall 1. The Final Cut 1. Directed by Alan Parker. With Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David. A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst. The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall became two of the best selling albums of all time. Following creative tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1. I/71Okj3gDOxL._SY355_.jpg' alt='Watch Pink Floyd The Wall Download Full' title='Watch Pink Floyd The Wall Download Full' />Pink Floyd in January 1968, from one of the only known photoshoots of all five members. Clockwise from bottom Gilmour, Mason, Barrett, Waters, Wright. Waters in 1. 98. 5. Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd Wright rejoined them as a session musician and, later, a band member. The three produced two more albumsA Momentary Lapse of Reason 1. The Division Bell 1. After nearly two decades of acrimony, Gilmour, Wright, and Mason reunited with Waters in 2. Pink Floyd in London as part of the global awareness event Live 8 Gilmour and Waters later stated they had no plans to reunite as a band again. Barrett died in 2. Wright in 2. 00. 8. The final Pink Floyd studio album, The Endless River 2. Waters and based almost entirely on unreleased material. Pink Floyd were inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1. UK Music Hall of Fame in 2. By 2. 01. 3, the band had sold more than 2. Watch Flash Point Online Fandango. History. 19. 631. Early years. Formation. Roger Waters met Nick Mason while they were both studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street. They first played music together in a group formed by Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe with Nobles sister Sheilagh. Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student,nb 1 joined later that year, and the group became a sextet named Sigma 6. Waters played lead guitar, Mason drums, and Wright rhythm guitar since there was rarely an available keyboard. The band performed at private functions and rehearsed in a tearoom in the basement of the Regent Street Polytechnic. They performed songs by the Searchers and material written by their manager and songwriter, fellow student Ken Chapman. In September 1. 96. Watch Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Dailymotion. Waters and Mason moved into a flat at 3. Stanhope Gardens near Crouch End in London, owned by Mike Leonard, a part time tutor at the nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic. Mason moved out after the 1. Bob Klose moved in during September 1. Waters switch to bass. Sigma 6 went through several names, including the Meggadeaths, the Abdabs and the Screaming Abdabs, Leonards Lodgers, and the Spectrum Five, before settling on the Tea Set. In 1. Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own band, guitarist Syd Barrett joined Klose and Waters at Stanhope Gardens. Barrett, two years younger, had moved to London in 1. Camberwell College of Arts. Waters and Barrett were childhood friends Waters had often visited Barrett and watched him play guitar at Barretts mothers house. Mason said about Barrett In a period when everyone was being cool in a very adolescent, self conscious way, Syd was unfashionably outgoing my enduring memory of our first encounter is the fact that he bothered to come up and introduce himself to me. Noble and Metcalfe left the Tea Set in late 1. Klose introduced the band to singer Chris Dennis, a technician with the Royal Air Force RAF. In December 1. 96. West Hampstead, through one of Wrights friends, who let them use some down time free. Wright, who was taking a break from his studies, did not participate in the session. When the RAF assigned Dennis a post in Bahrain in early 1. Barrett became the bands frontman. Later that year, they became the resident band at the Countdown Club near Kensington High Street in London, where from late night until early morning they played three sets of 9. During this period, spurred by the groups need to extend their sets to minimise song repetition, the band realised that songs could be extended with lengthy solos, wrote Mason. After pressure from his parents and advice from his college tutors, Klose quit the band in mid 1. Barrett took over lead guitar. The group first referred to themselves as the Pink Floyd Sound in late 1. Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. By 1. 96. 6, the groups repertoire consisted mainly of rhythm and blues songs and they had begun to receive paid bookings, including a performance at the Marquee Club in March 1. Peter Jenner, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, noticed them. Jenner was impressed by the sonic effects Barrett and Wright created, and with his business partner and friend Andrew King became their manager. The pair had little experience in the music industry and used Kings inheritance to set up Blackhill Enterprises, purchasing about 1,0. It was around this time that Jenner suggested they drop the Sound part of their band name, thus becoming the Pink Floyd. Under Jenner and Kings guidance, the group became part of Londons underground music scene, playing at venues including All Saints Hall and the Marquee. While performing at the Countdown Club, the band had experimented with long instrumental excursions, and they began to expand them with rudimentary but effective light shows, projected by coloured slides and domestic lights. Jenner and Kings social connections helped gain the band prominent coverage in the Financial Times and an article in the Sunday Times which stated At the launching of the new magazine IT the other night a pop group called the Pink Floyd played throbbing music while a series of bizarre coloured shapes flashed on a huge screen behind them . In 1. 96. 6, the band strengthened their business relationship with Blackhill Enterprises, becoming equal partners with Jenner and King and the band members each holding a one sixth share. By late 1. 96. 6, their set included fewer R B standards and more Barrett originals, many of which would be included on their first album. While they had significantly increased the frequency of their performances, the band were still not widely accepted. Following a performance at a Catholic youth club, the owner refused to pay them, claiming that their performance was not music. When their management filed suit in a small claims court against the owner of the youth organisation, a local magistrate upheld the owners decision. The band was much better received at the UFO Club in London, where they began to build a fan base. Barretts performances were enthusiastic, leaping around . Which none of the others could do, wrote biographer Nicholas Schaffner. Signing with EMIIn 1. Pink Floyd began to attract the attention of the music industry. While in negotiations with record companies, IT co founder and UFO club manager Joe Boyd and Pink Floyds booking agent Bryan Morrison arranged and funded a recording session at Sound Techniques in West Hampstead. Three days later, Pink Floyd signed with EMI, receiving a 5,0. EMI released the bands first single, Arnold Layne, with the B side Candy and a Currant Bun, on 1. March 1. 96. 7 on its Columbia label. Both tracks were recorded on 2. January 1. 96. 7.