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PINK FLOYD Released ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ LP 50 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from the past

12 September 2025

PINK FLOYD released WISH YOU WERE HERE
their 9th LP, on 12 September 1975, today
50 years ago.

The lyrics express longing, alienation, and sardonic criticism of the music industry.
The greater bulk of the record was taken up by Shine On You Crazy Diamond,
a nine-part tribute to Pink Floyd‘s flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett who got
fired years before for his huge drug problems.

The album went to #1 in the UK as well as in the US.

The stuntman Ronnie Rondell, who was set on fire
for the LP cover, died aged 88, last August 18th.

The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
the symphonic dignity, and cross-referencing, that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”

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SYD BARRETT – New Book On The Late PINK FLOYD Legend Out In 3 Weeks

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Yesterday, this message was posted on the socials of SYD BARRETT,
the legendary co-founder and inspirator of the early Pink Floyd years.

No title, nor further info, so far.

From 1965 until 1968, he was the band’s frontman and primary songwriter,
known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness
writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for
employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback.

He got fired by the group as his increasingly erratic behaviour, partly due
to his heavy use of psychedelic drugs, got worse and worse. He developed
a blank, dead-eyed stare. Barrett did not recognize friends, and he often did
not know where he was.

When his health got somewhat better, he wrote/recorded
and released 2 solo LPs, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett.
Both came out in 1970.

BARRETT


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Then And Now – DAVID GILMOUR

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8 March 2025

Artist: DAVID GILMOUR
Who: The former guitarist/voice/songwriter of
the iconic Pink Floyd with who made/released
14 albums.

Solo Debut LP
DAVID GILMOUR
1978

All Music: “Throughout the album Gilmour sounds like he’s having some jamming
fun with his compatriots in his own particular blues-meets-the Home Counties style,
adding keyboard overdubs here and there (his efforts are passable, but it is
understandable why he’s known for his guitar work first and foremost).”

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LUCK AND STRANGE
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The Telegraph (English newspaper): “The songs are cerebrally bold but really get
going when Gilmour finishes singing and launches into ambitious codas that remind
us what an extraordinarily gifted guitarist he is, with impeccable touch and tone that
can shift sublimely from tender melodiousness to flaming rock-outs.”

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PINK FLOYD – Legendary Psych-Rock Giants Topped The US Charts 45 Years Ago Today With Their 11th LP ‘THE WALL’

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Back in time

26 December 2024

Legendary psych-rock giants PINK FLOYD topped the US Album Charts
this day 45 years ago, on 26 December 1979 with their 11th LP THE WALL.
It occupied the top seat for 15 weeks. In the UK it peaked at #3.

The Wall is a rock opera that explores abandonment, cycles of violence, and isolation, symbolized by a wall. The songs create a storyline of events in the life of Pink, a fictional rock star based on Waters and Pink Floyd‘s former frontman Syd Barrett. The first half of the album largely features events from Waters’ childhood and young adulthood, such as the death of his father in WWII, and his wife’s infidelity.

Melody Maker (UK) wrote : “Not sure whether
it’s brilliant or terrible, but it’s utterly compelling.”

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“We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control”

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 50 In 2025

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23 December 2024

Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks
His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.

All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”

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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.

Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.

The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”

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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”

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Band: PINK FLOYD
 Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.

The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”

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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.

Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”

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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.

AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.

Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”

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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.

MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”

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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.

Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”

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PINK FLOYD Released Their Huge Hit Single ‘ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL’ 45 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

23 November 2024

Pink Floyd, one of the biggest bands in musical history, released their
single ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (Part 2), on 23 November 1979,
today 45 years ago. It was written by Roger Waters and part of their
concept LP of the same name.

A protest song against corporal punishment and rigid and abusive schooling.
At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements of
disco.

It was the band’s first single since Point Me At The Sky from 1968.
At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements
of disco.

It was #1 in the UK, the US, Canada, South-Africa,
New Zealand and several European countries.

“We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control”

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ICE-T/BODY COUNT And DAVID GILMOUR Get Comfortably Numb Together

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

23 September 2024

BODY COUNT‘s loudmouth ICE-T, according to Rolling Stone magazine, contacted both David Gilmour and Roger Waters after their publisher declined BC to record a new version with updated lyrics of Comfortably Numb from the 1979 album The Wall.

Ice-T: “When we originally contacted their publisher, they said ‘no’. It was not a diss,
but kind of like ‘Pink Floyd doesn’t do samples. They don’t do ads, either.’ We were fucked.
I wasn’t going to take the lyrics and put it on another track. I was just going to burn it.”

“Once we got to David, he was like, ‘Fuck, yeah. I love this song. I approve it.’ And then
Roger listened to it and his only comment was, ‘Who’s singing?’ When he heard it was Ice-T,
he approved it.’ To have two people who sit on two opposite sides of the fence agree on a
song, that means it must be good.”

Eventually, Gilmour offered to play guitar on the new track, which
will appear on Body Count’s forthcoming album Merciless.

Ice-T about the song itself: “I can turn on and watch the war in Ukraine, or I can watch
the Israel situation, and then click off and then start watching sports. Or I could watch a
kid get murdered by a cop or somebody come out and shoot their old lady, and then play my video game. We are just kind of numb to everything that’s going on, the starvation in the world, everything. It must have struck a nerve in both of those guys. I don’t think they would have approved it had I made a record like “Comfortable Buns” or some shit.”

Wake up people,
don’t be pink numb,
count the floyd.

BODY COUNT & GILMOUR

PINK FLOYD

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100 BEST ALBUM COVERS Ever According To Legendary ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

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21 July 2024

The first edition of iconic music weekly Rolling Stone, founded in San Franciso, was issued in November 1967. It became one of the most respected music magazines ever and still is.

Over the years RS published several ‘best of lists’, best song ever, best album ever,
best guitarist ever etc. Now they published their 100 best album covers ever. Below
the TOP-10. You can check the full TOP-100 right HERE.

To be honest I’m not impressed by their Top-10 choices.

1. ‘Unknown Pleasures’ by JOY DIVISION – 1979

2.’Abbey Road’ by THE BEATLES – 1969

3. ‘There’s A Riot Going On’ by SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – 1971

4. ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ by PINK FLOYD – 1973

5. Ready To Die by THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – 1994

6. ‘Horses’ by PATTI SMITH – 1975

7. ‘Maggot Brain’ by FUNKADELIC – 1971

8. ‘London Calling’ by THE CLASH – 1979

9. ‘She’s So Unusual’ by CYNDI LAUPER – 1983

10. ‘Nevermind’ by NIRVANA – 1991