Today is the 2,087th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s first show, when they played the opening ceremony of the Amphitheatre at Pompeii. Seeing Floyd play the inaugural gig there (they opened the set with the Latin-named “Astronomy Domine”) must have… Read More ›
Wednesday 6th June 1962. 6pm. The first visit of The Beatles to the EMI Studios in Abbey Road. John, Paul, George and Pete were still unsigned, and their equipment was shabby: wooden unpainted amplifiers, generating as much noise – according… Read More ›
What Could Be More Rock n Roll Than Stamp Collecting? Well, there’s doing your tax return, tidying the garden, and writing a letter to Points of View, for a start. Yet ever since The Marvellettes sang “Please Mr Postman” surely… Read More ›
I know that bucket lists are supposed to contain bungee jumps, trips to Pacific Islands and conjugal visits with film stars, but for a good few thousand people last night, seeing David Gilmour play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”… Read More ›
12 January 1968. Pink Floyd took to the stage as a five piece band for the first time, at Birmingham’s Aston University. Pink Floyd may have had a top ten charting single but not all was going well. Their… Read More ›
Plus – Pink Floyd Back Catalogue To Appear On Spotify… Whilst doing what passes for research at Every Record Tells A Story (which basically amounts to reading the sort of books I would be reading if I wasn’t doing any… Read More ›
Time for another confession. As the headline rather screams out, I used to think Pink Floyd was the stupidest band of all time. I don’t mean slightly silly, or partly potty. I mean really stupid. Stupider than the guy who… Read More ›
On 2 March 1973, Pink Floyd released ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ onto an unsuspecting world. The album spent 741 consecutive weeks in the US charts, just one week less than it took Wayne Rooney to learn how to spell… Read More ›
Seattle… What a scene that was. Those bands. Brings back memories of wall-of sound guitars played by long haired sensitive rockers who wore embarrassing make up in photos. Eh? Did I lose you on the make up thing? Sorry. Nirvana?… Read More ›
