While listening to some obscure rock radio station in the NH mountains, they referenced it to sex or drugs -
I definately prefer your facts.. and I take back my “eeeew”.
5:42PM BST 20 May 2014
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1. Pink Floyd’s most successful single Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 (1979) - selling more than 4 million copies worldwide - was written as a protest against rigid schooling, and boarding schools in particular.
2. Roger Waters came up with the concept for The Wall album in a moment of disgust when, on tour in Canada, a fan made his way onto the stage and spat on him.
3. Roughly one in every 12 people in the world are estimated to have a copy of Pink Floyd’s top selling album Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
4. In 1975, ex-band member Syd Barrett turned up at the recording of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ at Abbey Road studios. According to reports, he was balding and fat, and looked so terrible that Roger Waters and David Gilmour cried.
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5. Some unusual extra hands went into the making of The Division Bell album, their last album, made in 1994: Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, named it, and the scientist Stephen Hawking makes a guest appearance on it.
6. Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett. He got the nickname ‘Syd’ from his friends when he was 15, after a local drummer named Sid Barrett.
7. Before they were Pink Floyd, the band called themselves The Pink Floyd Sound. It gets worse: before that they were The Tea Set, and The Abdabs. And before that? Syd Barrett and David Gilmour played together in a band named Jokers Wild.
8. Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, the two Americans who inspired the band’s title were both early blues singers. Both musicians died within a year of the release of Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Wish You Were Here (1975). Anderson’s son ‘Little Pink Anderson’ is a bluesman too, and he’s still alive.
9. The title for their fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker. The album saw the band experiment - mostly unsuccessfully - with prog rock.
10. When Sir Bob Geldof appeared in the 1982 film of Pink Floyd’s The Wall he had to improvise as he wasn’t given a script to work from.
The old “obscure radio station” defense.
Don’t worry I have traveled the country and heard plenty of absurdities on small radio stations.
I watched a documentary on Pink Floyd and they talked about Syd showing up at the studio.
I think it was Waters who said they didn’t recognise him: balding, fat and dressed in corduroy pants, long sleeved white shirt and a sweater.
It was about fifteen minutes before Syd spoke and they recognised him by his voice.
In another interview David Gilmour talked about visiting Syd.
They wouldn’t really talk, there was a lot of silence.
Gilmour said he spent many days wondering what could have been if Syd could have retained his hold on sanity.