Pink Floyd – Time
Time starts before the band does.
Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky
On Sunday 21 January 1973, Clare Torry sang the wordless vocal on The Great Gig in the Sky at Abbey Road, for a session fee of £30.
Pink Floyd – Us and Them
Us and Them began as Rick Wright's piano piece The Violent Sequence, written for Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and turned down in Rome in 1969.
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
Roger Waters wrote and sang Brain Damage, and the line about the dark side of the moon became the title of the 1973 album.
Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive
Interstellar Overdrive, the long instrumental on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, started when Peter Jenner hummed Love's My Little Red Book to Syd Barrett out of tune.
Top 10 Iconic Rock Guitar Solos
Ten rock guitar solos ranked for phrasing, tone, and lasting impact, from Frusciante’s slide on Scar Tissue to Page on Stairway to Heaven.
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine
Astronomy Domine opens The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, recorded at Abbey Road on 11 April 1967 with Syd Barrett on the low vocal and Rick Wright on the high one.
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
In January 1979 Pink Floyd moved into Super Bear, in the hills above Nice, and started seven months of work on The Wall.
Pink Floyd – The Thin Ice
The Thin Ice is the second track on The Wall, and it starts before anyone has agreed to sing.
Pink Floyd – Young Lust
The last forty seconds of Young Lust come from a real telephone call.