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Pink Floyd (formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England) are a British progressi ve rock band,
noted for their progressive compositions, thoughtful lyrics, sonic experimentation, cover art and live shows.
The group are one of rock's most successful bands, believed to have sold an estimated 73.5 million albums in the U.S.
and 175 to 200 million albums worldwide.

ECLIPSE
(1995)

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All that you feel
All that you love
All that you hate

All you distrust
All that you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal

All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat

Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come

And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

-Pink Floyd-


LionHeart
June 2007

Pink Floyd
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Pink Floyd (formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England) are a British progressive rock band, noted for their progressive compositions, thoughtful lyrics, sonic experimentation, cover art and live shows. The group are one of rock's most successful acts, believed to have sold an estimated 73.5 million albums in the U.S. and 175 to 200 million albums worldwide.

Pink Floyd enjoyed moderate success in the late-1960s as a psychedelic band led by Syd Barrett. After Barrett's erratic behavior caused his colleagues to add guitarist David Gilmour (who eventually replaced Barrett), the band went on to record several elaborate concept albums, achieving worldwide success with 1973's Dark Side of the Moon and 1979's The Wall both among the best-selling and most enduringly popular albums in rock history.

Pink Floyd are renowned for their lavish stage shows, combining over-the-top visual experiences with their music to create a show in which the performers themselves are almost secondary. In their early days, Pink Floyd were among the first bands to use a dedicated travelling light show in conjunction with their performances, projecting slides, film clips, pyrotechnics (exploding flashpots and the exploding gong and fireworks) and psychedelic patterns onto a large circular screen (dubbed "Mr. Screen"). In the early shows there were numerous technical difficulties, such as an exploding flashpot that blew out the cones of all the speakers.

Their early combination of music and visuals set the standard for subsequent rock tours on both sides of the Atlantic. Later shows featured over-sized balloons (notably a giant pig balloon which floated over the audience during performances of Pigs from the Animals album), a plane crashing into the stage at the end of "On the Run", a giant flowering disco ball (a projection screen which could be retracted and tilted), more than 100 multi-colored robotic 'dancing' spot lights, and multi-coloured lasers. Their constant push for technological innovation in their concert shows is famously demonstrated by their use of extremely powerful, isotope splitting copper-vapor (rather than the usual argon) lasers in the 1994 Division Bell tour.

Integral to the music is the artwork that comes with it.
The album covers and sleeve artwork add to the emotional impact of the music with vivid and meaningful imagery.

Throughout the band's career, this aspect was mainly provided by the talents of photographer and graphic artist Storm Thorgerson and his erstwhile graphic studio Hipgnosis ("hip" gnosis or hypnosis).Released in August 1967, the band's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (originally called "Projection") is considered to be a prime example of English psychedelic music. The album's tracks, predominantly written by Barrett, showcase poetic lyrics and an eclectic mixture of music, from the avant garde free form piece "Interstellar Overdrive" to whimsical songs, such as "The Scarecrow", inspired by the Fenlands, the rural region north of Cambridge, Barrett, Gilmour and Waters's home town. The album was a hit in the UK where it peaked at #6, but failed to get much attention in North America, reaching #131 in the US. During this period, the band toured with Jimi Hendrix, gaining them further popularity.

Pink Floyd have not released any new studio material or toured since 1994's The Division Bell, nor is there a sign of any forthcoming, however the band released a live album entitled P*U*L*S*E in 1995. P*U*L*S*E hit #1 in U.S. and featured songs recorded during one of the record-breaking 14 presentations at Earl's Court, in London, which ended "The Division Bell" tour, and includes an entire performance of "Dark Side of the Moon" as well as other favourites from albums like "The Wall" and "Wish You Were Here".

On 16 November 2005 Pink Floyd were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, by Pete Townshend.

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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) Music From the Film 'More' (1969) Ummagumma (1969) Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Meddle (1970) Relics (1971-Compilation) Obscured by Clouds (1972) Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Works (1967-73)

Wish You Were Here (1975) Animals (1977) The Wall (1979) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981-Compilation)

PULSE (1995) Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001-Compilation)

The Final Cut (1983) A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) Shine On (1992-Compilation) The Division Bell (1994)

Pink Floyd Films

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of Moon (2003) DVD
Starring: David Gilmour, Nick Mason
Director: Matthew Longfellow

Pink Floyd:Making of the Dark Side of the Moon (2005) DVD

Pink Floyd - London 1966-1967 (2005) DVD
Starring: Syd Barrett, John Dunbar
Director: Peter Whitehead

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (1974) DVD
Starring: David Gilmour, Nick Mason
Director: Adrian Maben

Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition) (1982) DVD
Starring: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves
Director Alan Parker

Live at Knebworth: Parts 1, 2 & 3 (1990) DVD
Starring: Eric Clapton, Phil Collins

Pink Floyd - Pulse (1995) DVD
Starring: David Gilmour, Nick Mason
Director: David Mallet

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