The Pink Floyd Story

it is a repeat but still worth watching

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The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?

Celebration of The Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary, featuring interviews with members David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright as well as rare footage from the group's archive. Other contributors include Bob Geldof, manager Peter Jenner, producer Joe Boyd and graphic designer Storm Thorgerson.

Forty years after Britain's foremost underground band released their debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd remain one of the biggest brand names and best-loved bands in the world. This film features extended archive footage, some of it rarely or never seen, alongside original interviews with the four surviving members of Pink Floyd - David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason - and traces the journey of a band that has only ever had five members, three of whom have lead the band at different stages of its evolution.

I'm sure I've seen something like it before, but it doesn't say it is a repeat.

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Originally posted by scottyhammer:
it is a repeat but still worth watching

I hadn't seen it before, but you were right it was worth watching - interestingly it seemed they had unearthed a decent recording of Reaction in G on a Syd clip - I wish they would re-master and release this stuff.

I enjoyed this and I don't even like the band. Am I going soft?

no drood - you have just found your inner good taste for excellent music !

I'm not a hige Floyd fan, but it was an interesting programme. I didn't realise that Waters was the main mover for doing weird stuff, but got voted down by the others, hence Meddle and all that came after.

The bit about how Waters started to take over teh band circa The Wall seemed a bit unfair, as I've read elsewhere that one of the reasons that Wright wasn't producing material was that he was preoccupied with pale powders. But Wright did have make point that writing music wasn't Waters' main talent, as the rather dreary Wall demonstrates.

Mark S

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as the rather dreary Wall demonstrates.

It's a rather dreary and black tale, hardly needs ABBA type happiness music does it?

I think The Wall is Floyd's best post-Syd elpee, but there's not much they've released I don't like. I think Roger Walters was right in that he was creating what he felt, rather than trying to appeal to the record company's marketing department.

In The Flesh is a quite a cheery number

I got me some bad news for you, Sunshine
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
And he sent us along as a surrugate band
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand

I think Roger Walters would fit nicely in a super-group with Ritchie Blackmore - not sure who'd do keyboards and drums.

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Originally posted by BigH47:

It's a rather dreary and black tale, hardly needs ABBA type happiness music does it?

I meant that it was not very interesting music, that it wasn't distinctive, whereas the stuff up to WYWH was.

Mark S

Heads up, radio fans.
More docufloydery sat eve. BBC radio london 94.9
Gary crowley talking to nick mason about all things floyd, including live 8, from 6-9.

Spider pig at battersea, check it out