Pink Floyd

Summer Of 1967 – August 4th – PINK FLOYD Released Their Debut LP

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

4 August 2026

On 4 August 1967, today 59 years ago, in the Summer Of Love, art-rock pioneers
PINK FLOYD launched acclaimed debut LP THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DOWN.

An indefectible, influential psychedelic classic with most of the songs written by troubled genius Syd Barrett. A year later he was fired for his erratic and uncontrollable behavior due to too many drugs.

The album which was recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios in London during the same time that The Beatles were recording their Sgt. Pepper masterpiece peaked at No.6 on the UK album chart, but failed to chart in the US.


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Summer Of 1982 – 14 July PINK FLOYD’s Movie THE WALL Premiere In London

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

14 July 2026

PINK FLOYD‘s mentally dramatic movie, about a troubled rock star who descends
into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone, named
THE WALL premiered in London on 14 July 1982.

Bob Geldof, frontman of The Boomtown Rats‘ and
later co-organiser of Live Aid 1985 had the lead role.

The film blended live action with animation and was based on the prog-rock supremos’ 1979 album of the same name. It was a commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic, and earned two BAFTA Awards and remains a cult favorite among the band’s fans.

David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Nick Mason of the band all attended the event,
alongside Pete Townshend, Sting, and Queen’s Roger Taylor, among other stars.

The movie’s trailer.

Summer Of 1975 – July 5th – PINK FLOYD At Knebworth Park, England

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

5 July 2026

On 5 July 1975, prog rock icons PINK FLOYD played
at the legendary Knebworth Park in England.

They premiered their then-new LP Wish You Were Here in a spectacular way,
with Spitfires, pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flew into the stage.

Captain Beefheart, Steve Miller and Roy Harper were
the support acts. Tickets were £3.50 (4,60 US dollars)

UNCUT Magazine – New Ultimate Record Collection Edition

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18 April 2026

Like the 60s the 70s were also a pivotal decade for great music. Halfway punk
made a monumental impact amidst a series of classic rock albums. In this new
Ultimate Record Collectione Editio UNCUT ranks and reviews no less than 500 LPs.

I’m sure these 10 masterpieces will be in there.

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THE DAMNED Release Covers Album ‘NOT LIKE ANYBODY ELSE’ To The Memory Of Their Late Original Guitarist BRIAN JAMES

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26 January 2026

London’s punk oldtimers THE DAMNED
celebrate their 50th birthday this year.
50? Time storms forward mercilessly.

Their debut LP Damned Damned Damned from 1977
still is one of the best punk albums ever, in my book.

They now have a new one out, named NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
Their 13th longplayer. One with nothing but covers of 60/70s pop songs.

It’s a deeply personal and celebratory record to the memory
of co-founder/guitarist and musical architect Brian James,
who passed away on 6th March of last year.

The LP closes with a powerful farewell. The Rolling Stones‘ 1965 cracker ‘The Last Time‘, featuring Brian James himself, taken from his final live performance with The Damned in 2022 in London.”


Rat Scabies & Dave Vanian – The Damned at Lokerse Feesten, Belgium – August 2025
Photo by Turn Up The Volume

TUTV: Expect covers of songs by Pink Floyd, The Stones, Lovin’ Spoonful, The Kinks,
The Creation, The Stooges, The Yardbirds, The Weeds, and a couple of others. The fact
that the record is a tribute to the late Brian Jones is the main message here. Kudos
to them for doing this. For me, after two spins, I went back to that supersonic debut LP.

– SEE EMILE PLAY –
Pink Floyd

– THERE’S A GHOST IN MY HOUSE –
R. Dean Taylor

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SYD BARRETT – Legendary PINK FLOYD Co-Founder Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday Today

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6 January 2026

Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and main songwriter/vocalist SYD BARRETT,
real name Roger Keith Barrett) was born on 6 January 1946.

Happy 80 to the visionary musician whose promising career
was torpedoed by drug abuse and mental problems.

He co-wrote/recorded the first two Floyd albums – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
and A Saucerful Of Secrets – and released two solo LPs in 1970, The Madcap Laughs
and Barrett. He passed away on 7 July 2006, aged 60.

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SYD’s 2nd Solo LP ‘BARRETT’ Released 55 Years Ago Today With A Little Help Of Pink Friends

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13 November 2025

Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and confused genius SYD BARRETT (1946-2006)
released his 2nd and final solo album, simply called BARRETT 50 years ago.

It was produced by PF’s guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright.

Wright: “Doing Syd’s record was interesting, but extremely difficult. Dave [Gilmour] and Roger [Waters] did the first one (The Madcap Laughs) and Dave and myself did the second one. But by then it was just trying to help Syd any way we could, rather than worrying about getting the best guitar sound. You could forget about that! It was just going into the studio and trying to get him to sing.”

Barrett about his 2 solo longplayers: “They’ve got to reach a certain standard and that’s probably reached in Madcap once or twice and on the other one only a little – just an echo
of that. Neither of them are much more than that.”

Barrett himself designed the LP’s cover.
The album didn’t chart. All fans had
forgotten about their former idol.

AllMusic: “Instrumentally, the result is a bit fuller and smoother than the first album,
although it’s since been revealed that Gilmour and Wright embellished these songs as
best they could without much involvement from Barrett, who was often unable or
unwilling to perfect his performance.

It was regarded as something of a charming but unfocused throwaway at the time
of its release, but Barrett’s singularly whimsical and unsettling vision holds up well.”

Turn Up The Volume: Probably still with his head in the clouds, Barrett showed
his songwriting skills again and recorded them with two Pink Floyds. A mix of folk,
pop, and psych-rock twists. Too bad it was already over after this second and final
studio LP. Wish the crazy diamond had produced some more magic. R.I.P.

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