“Albert King once advised Gary Moore to ‘play every other note’”: Why keeping it simple can improve your blues solos

Peter Green, George Harrison, Gary Moore, David Gilmour... These are just some of the players inspiring this lesson in ...
Under the Radar

Wish You Were Here 50: Deluxe Box Set

The deluxe box set incorporates multiple formats in its presentation. The original album and a set of rarities are included ...
The Oakland Press

New releases dive into the musical archives of the Beatles and Pink Floyd

There’s no question that the Beatles and Pink Floyd created a great many musical masterpieces during their respective heydays ...
American Songwriter

4 Underrated Syd Barrett Solo Songs That Every Pink Floyd Fan Should Remember

Here are four great Syd Barrett solo songs in honor of what would’ve been the late Pink Floyd co-founder’s 80th birthday.
Consequence

Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd Classics Were Considered for Stranger Things Finale

A couple of Prince songs played a key role the series finale of Stranger Things, but that honor could have gone to Led ...
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Test Drive: Adler Planetarium's "The Dark Side of the Moon" show

Adler Planetarium is projecting a space and musical tribute to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side Of The Moon" on its full dome screen to mark the album's 50th anniversary. So I decided to test drive it for ...
American Songwriter

Remember When Roger Waters Left Pink Floyd in a Cloud of Animosity in 1985?

Roger Waters helped Pink Floyd hit the heights of stardom. At least until he left the band and tried to take the name with ...
Rolling Stone

Pink Floyd’s Mesmerizing ‘Wish You Were Here’ Video Arrives 50 Years After Song’s Release

Fifty years after the release of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here, the band returned earlier this month with a massive anniversary box set to celebrate the landmark 1975 album. About a week after the ...
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The two “standout tracks” of Pink Floyd’s career, according to David Gilmour

One of the great beauties of Pink Floyd’s career is that there are several different, brilliant chapters. Whether it be the psychedelic rock of their first period, when they were led by the genius Syd ...
The Irish Times

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 50 review – Brilliantly bleak masterpiece comes with its own mythology

Prog rock was about to crash headlong into punk when Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, their sombre, disembodied masterpiece, in September 1975. The band was too successful to be threatened by ...
Variety

Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason Recalls the Making of ‘Wish You Were Here,’ as 50th Anniversary Boxed Set Arrives: ‘There Wasn’t a Theme to the Record Until Syd Barrett ...

How we wish we were there … back in 1975, that is, and able to again listen to Pink Floyd‘s magnum opus “Wish You Were Here” as a fresh work for the very first time, as opposed to hearing it through ...