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Pink Floyd may have had nerves of steel going through the industry, but it turned out they could turn to music to get them through the toughest times.
From haunting melodies to iconic guitar solos, explore the songs that have shaped Pink Floyd's legacy, ranked in order of ...
Many bands can pull from all their favourite musicians, but sometimes listening back to their past can unearth some new ideas ...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Sid Vicious
The name Sid Vicious brings up all sorts of images of debauchery, mayhem and general rock ‘n’ roll delinquency. Whether he intended to or not, the Sex Pistols member left behind quite the legacy.
Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others ...
But it was another Floyd song, the epic Shine On You Crazy Diamond, written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, which will stand as his epitaph. As a member of Floyd during its formative years, Syd Barrett ...
On the tour's opening night, June 18, at the Palais Des Sports in Toulouse, the quartet opened their set with the world premiere of a new Gilmour/Waters/Wright composition, Shine On You Crazy ...
Waters heard the melody—strange, gorgeous, unresolved in a way that felt both tragic and full of potential—and thought of Syd ... You Crazy Diamond.” In these songs, Waters summons Barrett ...
But the irony is that when they were recording the track on the album Roger specifically wrote for Syd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Barrett, as we all know, turned up at the studio, allegedly ...
Then crazy career management undid all the good work ... Françoise Hardy / For sale: Syd Barrett’s floorboards / Elvis Costello – the musical! / Sparks in the studio / Moon Unit Zappa on life with and ...
The crazy diamond who shined just a little too brightly and whose ... For the last 15 years of his life Syd Barrett lived a mostly peaceful life in Cambridge. His not insubstantial Pink Floyd ...