It also echoed my own thoughts about the Floyd and their influence. It’s a good catalogue and I enjoyed reading Joe Boyd’s reminiscences of that bygone time of exploration and originality. They’re more concerned with mortgages and pensions.’ A fellow exhibition visitor commented to his friend ‘You can’t imagine young people doing that these days. The 1967 London Underground scene seems incredible now the risk taking, the rapid changes in society with young people in charge. The final section is an obituary to Storm. It begins with a foreword by Aubrey Powell who with Storm Thorgerson formed Hipgnosis who designed most of the Floyd’s iconic album covers – no mean feat in pre-Photoshop days, followed by 5 essays discussing the beginnings of Floyd, their very Englishness, on eon their musical legacy and experimentation and then the third section discusses the albums. In the exhibition fellow band member Roget Waters credited Syd for getting the band off the ground and not just a group of architecture students playing blues covers before giving up and looking for proper jobs. He has always cast along shadow over them and inspired one of their best loved songs Shine on you Crazy Diamond.
I saw them on their final tour in 1994 and they were still exploring the elegiac passing of time and the loss of their friend Syd. When I first saw them live in 1974 they were incredibly fashionable until Punk came along and Johnny Rotten famously, or infamously, depending on your point of view defiantly wore a t-shirt embellished with I Hate…over a picture of the band members. The Floyd have gone in and out of fashion. They metamorphosed from modish young hipsters in the latest Carnaby Street fashions into anonymous band members as they began to develop the themes and ideas that would led to their masterpiece Dark Side of the Moon. Poor doomed Syd became a casualty of the times and the Floyd took another path and began to explore other themes. Its frontman and songwriter, Syd Barrett, began the English version of psychedelia rooted in childhood books and references especially to Alice in Wonderland. The Summer of Love in 1967 which is now 50 years ago was when the Floyd took off and became the house band at London’s legendary UFO Club. It featured an exhaustive selection of mementoes and memories from what I’ve always though of as a quintessentially English band. This is the catalogue that accompanied the recent hugely successful exhibition on the Pink Floyd at London’s V & A. Their Mortal Remains: The Studio Albums: A chronological, album-by-album history of the band, each album is introduced by Mark Blake and accompanied by insights from Aubrey “Po” Powell. Victoria Broackes and Anna Landreth-Strong chart the band’s live acts, from the psychedelic light shows in 60s London to huge stadium concerts, with particular reference to their successful collaboration with architect and set designer Mark Fisher (1947–2013). Great Gigs in the Sky: Pink Floyd on stage Howard Goodall explains how Pink Floyd escaped the musical constraints of the three-minute single and exploited the potential of longer-form pieces in the mid-1970s, developing their signature sound and style in Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here and continuing to hone this over subsequent albums.ĥ.
“Painters, pipers, prisoners”: the musical legacy of Pink Floyd Jon Savage on how Pink Floyd negotiated a transition from single releases to concept albums between 19.Ĥ. Rob Young places Pink Floyd in a wider visual tradition, exploring their “British” appeal. “ What Have We Done to England?” Pink Floyd and the lure of the pastoral Joe Boyd examines the character and musical legacy of Syd Barrett, as the mythologized founder of Pink Floyd and icon of late 1960s British counterculture, drawing on the author’s personal acquaintance with Syd Barrett.Ģ. “Lift Off”: Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd and the London underground Five essays address what has made Pink Floyd unique, and contextualize their continued impact:ġ. With a photographic section devoted to the band’s 15 albums, the book explores the lasting Pink Floyd phenomenon. Lavishly illustrated throughout with material from the band’s archive, including never-before-seen photographs, ephemera, and more, this book examines what makes Pink Floyd unique, from the mythology underpinning their output to their musicianship, epic staging, and performance impact. Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains celebrates 50 years of one of the greatest bands of all time.
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