Granted, Waters dominated “ The Wall” and “ The Final Cut with endless backside crawling, forcing all of us to witness his perverse obsession with working out his mommy and daddy issues while David Gilmour replaced what should have been studio time with grocery shopping and masterminding his new solo album. I’m going to focus on the band when it was the core group - no need to focus on a Waters-less ‘Floyd here.
The ‘Floyd is approaching nearly 50 years of being in our consciousness, and there’s a lot of brilliance there, sprinkled with a healthy dose of junk as well. When rummaging around for classic vinyl for sale at your local record shop, you’ll undoubtedly come across an old Pink Floyd album with tattered corners and names written in failed ink on the back cover, indicating a well-loved piece of someone’s musical education. However, none of us can ever get any clarity as to who’s in the current lineup, how long it’s been since their last album, and how angry Roger Waters is that the “Pink Floyd” name carries on without his trademark sulk, but we all like this band in one way or another. (If you’re a new Best Classic Bands reader, we’d be grateful if you would Like our Facebook page and/or bookmark our Home page.All of us love at least one Pink Floyd track. We are excited to work together with the band on their incredible musical legacy.” Rob Stringer, Chairman and CEO, Columbia Records said: “We are proud to continue the long standing relationship in North America and beyond between Columbia Records and Pink Floyd. (A follow-up, “Comfortably Numb,” never even charted.) The Wall‘s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” is the outlier it became a huge worldwide #1 hit. Remarkably, Pink Floyd has only charted five songs on the U.S. It’s estimated that the band’s catalog has sold 250 million albums worldwide. There followed numerous global #1 albums, including The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut and 2014’s finale, The Endless River. Pink Floyd, featuring guitarist Syd Barrett, bassist Roger Waters, Rick Wright on keyboards and drummer Nick Mason, first broke onto the music scene in 1967, with a unique combination of psychedelic-progressive rock. The group added David Gilmour that same year and, despite Barrett’s departure in 1968, recorded some of the most innovative and ground breaking records of the time, culminating in 1973 with The Dark Side Of The Moon, one of the biggest selling albums of all-time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Heart Like a Wheel’ Breakthrough.
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