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Pink Floyd were inactive until 1986, following legal battles between members. [30] Gilmour began recruiting musicians in 1986, for what would later become Pink Floyd. [ 31 ] He rehired Wright, but could only add him as a contract musician.
Pink Floyd's The Wall exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. [372] 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. [373]
David Jon Gilmour was born on 6 March 1946 in Cambridge, England. [5] He has three siblings: Peter, Mark and Catharine. [6] His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge, and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a trained teacher who later worked as a film editor for the BBC. [7]
Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1985, didn’t take part. Gilmour, Mason and Pratt hadn’t recorded music together since the band’s keyboard player, Rick Wright, died in 2008.
Pink Floyd released their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967. [6] Mason has played on every Pink Floyd album since. [7] The only Pink Floyd compositions credited solely to Mason are "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" (from Ummagumma) and "Speak to Me" (from The Dark Side of the Moon). [7] The track "Nick's Boogie" was named ...
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
After Waters quit the group in 1985, he unsuccessfully vied to get the band to cease operating under the Pink Floyd name – beginning a cycle of animosity that would last for four decades, and ...
Alan Parsons OBE (born 20 December 1948) [2] is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer.. Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975.