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Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was
brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name. After that time, they were little more than a dinosaur act, capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts, but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas. Their latter-day staleness cannot disguise the fact that, for the first decade or so of their existence, they were one of the most innovative groups around, in concert and (especially) in the studio.
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Op vrijdag 7 juli 2006 is Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett overleden aan gevolgen van zijn langdurige diabetes, Syd was mede-oprichter van Pink Floyd en de creatieve geest achter hun eerste twee albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn en A Saucerful of Secrets. Syd heeft na zijn vertrek ook altijd nog een grote invloed gehad op Pink Floyd, het album Wish You Were Here is een ode aan hem, tijdens het opnemen van het nummer Shine on you crazy diamond is Syd zelfs even in de studio geweest. Syd is gestorven op 60 jarige leeftijd.
R.i.p. Syd 1946 - 2006
Discography1967: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1968: A Saucerful of Secrets
1969: Music From the Film More
1969: Ummagumma
1970: Atom Heart Mother
1971: Meddle
1972: Obscured by Clouds
1973: Dark Side of the Moon
1975: Wish You Were Here
1977: Animals
1979: The Wall
1983: The Final Cut
1987: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1994: The Division Bell
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