Pink Floyd In The 1970s Decades

Author : Georg Purvis
Publisher : Decades in Music
ISBN 13 : 9781789520729
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pink Floyd in the 1970s written by Georg Purvis and published by Decades in Music. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may have all started with Syd Barrett, but the persistence and creativity of Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour meant that Pink Floyd went from one of England's top underground psychedelic bands to one of the biggest rock bands on the planet - all thanks to an album wondering if there really was a dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd in the 1970s: Decades focuses on the band throughout the 1970s - undoubtedly the peak of their success - from the weird brilliance of Atom Heart Mother to the epic, autobiographical storytelling of The Wall. In between, the band achieved tremendous success with Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon, yet struggled to come to terms with their place in the pantheon of rock music on Wish You Were Here and Animals. The decade of Pink Floyd's greatest successes was mired in shifting musical trends, a balance in power from a democratic equality to one man calling most of the shots, and the large, looming spectre of their erstwhile founder guiding some of the greatest songs and albums of all time. The book explores the music, the defining moments, and the personality clashes that very nearly destroyed the band.

Author : Georg Purvis
Publisher : Sonicbond Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789521165
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pink Floyd in the 1970s written by Georg Purvis and published by Sonicbond Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may have all started with Syd Barrett, but the persistence and creativity of Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour meant that Pink Floyd went from one of England’s top underground psychedelic bands to one of the biggest rock bands on the planet — all thanks to an album wondering if there really was a dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd in the 1970s: Decades focuses on the band throughout the 1970s — undoubtedly the peak of their success — from the weird brilliance of Atom Heart Mother to the epic, autobiographical storytelling of The Wall. In between, the band achieved tremendous success with Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon, yet struggled to come to terms with their place in the pantheon of rock music on Wish You Were Here and Animals. The decade of Pink Floyd’s greatest successes was dominated by shifting musical trends and a balance in power in the band changing from democratic equality to Waters calling most of the shots. These factors, and the looming spectre of Barrett, their erstwhile founder, inspired some of the greatest albums of all time. The book explores the music, the defining moments and the personality clashes that very nearly destroyed the band. The author: Georg Purvis is the author of Queen: The Complete Works, currently in its third edition. While Queen was his gateway band, he has come to appreciate all kinds of music over the years and considers himself lucky that his first-ever concert, at the age of 10, was on Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell tour at Veteran’s Stadium on June 2, 1994. He has since turned his love of writing about music into a hobby, with several unfinished manuscripts collecting dust on an external hard drive. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Meredith, and their two cats, Spencer and William.

Author : Chris Hart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000649563
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd written by Chris Hart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845137485
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigs Might Fly written by Mark Blake and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums. Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.

Author : Barry Miles
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127403
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pink Floyd: The Early Years written by Barry Miles and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authentic and compelling story of the group that gave alternative London its first real soundtrack and launched on the rock world a radical combination of music, light shows and pyrotechnic stage effects.A revealing diary of Pink Floyd's daily routine, from their roots in Cambridge to cult status in Sixties London. Author Barry Miles saw the band play when they were still called The Pink Floyd Sound and he wrote the first ever article about them for a New York underground newspaper in 1966. He also knew band members socially, witnessed the rapid decline of Syd Barrett and became actively involved in setting up some of Floyd’s major gigs.Barry Miles is an acclaimed music writer and expert on 'Beat' poetry and poets. A founder of the Indica bookshop and gallery in the Sixties, he went on to launch International Times and write for NME. He ghost-wrote Many Years From Now, Paul McCartney's autobiography and has written books on The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa.

Author : Richard Houghton
Publisher : This Day In Music Books
ISBN 13 : 1787590542
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pink Floyd: I Was There written by Richard Houghton and published by This Day In Music Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States, and 37.9 million albums sold in the US since 1993. This book is based on fans, friends and colleagues memories of the band from their earliest days in Cambridge through the on stage pyrotechnics of Dark Side and through to the massive stage events like The Wall. Includes new insights into the band with Syd Barrett.

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760379297
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon written by Martin Popoff and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular rock albums of all time.

Author : Nick Mason
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452166412
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition) written by Nick Mason and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Pink Floyd by founding member Nick Mason, this reading edition brings up-to-date the band's incredible story as told uniquely from the inside out. Including the complete text of the original in an easy-toread format, a new chapter covering the passing of Rick Wright and the release of the group's final album, and 80 pages of images from Mason's archives plus new photos, Inside Out is a masterly rock memoir and an eye opener for both veteran fans and those just discovering the group.

Author : Antoine Capet
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN 13 : 9782877758642
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilson years (1964 - 1970) written by Antoine Capet and published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Après une longue période de “purgatoire”, les années Wilson connaissent une regain d’intérêt, et l’ouvrage propose de nouveaux regards sur ces années soixante si ambiguës.

Author : Richard A. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440862206
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Goes the Decade written by Richard A. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art. All in the Family. Barry Manilow, Donna Summer, and Olivia Newton-John; Styx, Led Zeppelin, and The Jackson Five. Jaws, Rocky, The Exorcist, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies takes a sweeping look at all of the cultural events and developments that made the 1970s a highly memorable era of change and new thinking. This book explores the cultural and social framework of the 1970s, focusing on pop culture areas that include film, television, sports, technological innovations, clothing, and art. A timeline highlights significant cultural moments, and a "controversies in pop culture" section explores the pop culture items and moments of the 1970s that shocked the public and challenged underlying social mores. The book also includes a "Game Changers" section that identifies the public figures and celebrities who had the largest influence during the decade, a technology section that explains how media, news, and culture were shared, and a "Legacy" section that identifies concepts and events from the 1970s that still affect Americans today.