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Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965 when Syd Barrett moved there from Cambridge. He joined fellow musicians Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright and their first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released in 1967. It reached No.6 in the UK charts. Due to increasingly erratic behavior, Barrett would only remain with the band for another year. He was replaced by guitarist David Gilmour in 1968. The band spent the next few years recording film scores and albums that sounded more like psychedelic experiments. The group came into their own with the stronger emphasis songwriting and large themes on Dark Side of the Moon in 1973. It was the band’s first big commercial success, and they followed it with Wish You Were Here in 1975 and The Wall in 1979.

During these years bassist Roger Waters exerted more creative control over the band. While each member of Pink Floyd can be found with songwriting credits on Dark Side of the Moon (Mason has a credit on “Time”) and Wright has numerous contributions on Wish You Were Here, Waters is the principle songwriter on The Wall, although you will find Gilmour collaborated on the music of Young Lust, Run Like Hell, and Comfortably Numb. This phase culminated with Waters being the sole credited songwriter credit on the 1983 album The Final Cut, which proved to his last record with the band.

After a lengthy legal dispute concerning the use of the band’s name, Pink Floyd returned with David Gilmour at the helm, releasing two albums and touring successfully in the 80s and 90s. Aside from a brief reunion at Live 8 in 2005, most fans assumed that 1994’s The Division Bell would be the last collaboration for Pink Floyd. Syd Barret died in in 2006 and keyboardist Rick Wright died in September 2008. So it was quite a surprise in 2014, when Pink Floyd released one more album, The Endless River. Culled from 20 hours of outtakes from The Division Bell sessions, the album went straight to the top of the UK charts. David Gilmour has often credited Wright for having a huge influence on the Pink Floyd sound and The Endless River is partly a tribute to him. In spite of the fighting that went on in the band, their music has a magic to it that’s bigger than the personalities, lyrics and guitar solos. The band members know it, too. The closing track is “Louder Than Words,” and the lyrics begin: “We and we fight, diss each other on sight, The sum of our parts, the beat of our hearts, is louder than words.”

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