Here's the line-up:
David Gilmour - Vocals, guitar
Roger Waters - Bass guitar, vocals, tape effects
Nick Mason - Percussion, tape effects
Richard Wright - Keyboard, vocals
•One of Pink Floyd’s most successful albums, selling 35 million copies worldwide
•Marked the first time Roger Waters wrote all of the lyrics
•At this time, the group was trying to shed their “space rock” image
•Marked the first time Roger Waters wrote all of the lyrics
•At this time, the group was trying to shed their “space rock” image
•“Part of [the success] might lie in the Floyd's tantalising blend of hippy intangibility with direct statement (e.g., "Money, so they say/Is the root of all evil today" and "I've got things on my mind/For want of the price of tea and a slice/ The old man died"). The notion of a committed psychedelic band is attractive; it doesn't need to interrupt the dream - it can become part of it.”
•“It's to do with the time/space dislocations of being a modern rock-star as a metaphor for the dislocation of meaning in modern society. It's to do with social insanity and our blitzed-out generation being so impotently laid-back and scared of believing in itself (and not some imported beamer from Bengal) that it can't get it together to change things.”
-- Ian MacDonald. “Bleak Side of the World.” New Musical Express, 1972.
•“It's to do with the time/space dislocations of being a modern rock-star as a metaphor for the dislocation of meaning in modern society. It's to do with social insanity and our blitzed-out generation being so impotently laid-back and scared of believing in itself (and not some imported beamer from Bengal) that it can't get it together to change things.”
-- Ian MacDonald. “Bleak Side of the World.” New Musical Express, 1972.
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