Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of "Pink Floyd" - Couverture rigide

Blake, Mark

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ISBN 10 : 1845132610 ISBN 13 : 9781845132613

Editeur : Aurum, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band's painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park.

Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous—and most English—rock band.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mark Blake s history of Pink Floyd the first for fifteen years has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band s life. Lucidly written, incorporating over a hundred new and exclusive interviews, it covers Pink Floyd from their Cambridge beginnings in the early sixties to their triumphant re-formation at Live 8 in 2005 24 years after their last live performance together and the death of their troubled founder-member Syd Barrett a year later.

Pink Floyd s albums like Dark Side of the Moon remain some of rock s biggest sellers of all every year on CD; Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters continue to do arena and stadium gigs, and the market for this book will exist for many years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurum
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845132610
• ISBN 13: 9781845132613
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320