Tag: Roger Waters
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First Time I Got The Blues…
It wasn’t easy to expand one’s musical horizons in the eighties. Napster and Spotify really made life easier for us in the 21st century. Back then we didn’t have anyone to hold our hands and tell us “these are the good songs, these are the less good ones”. There was no one to advise that if…
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Why I Thought Pink Floyd Was The Stupidest Band In The World
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 told Goliath that the little kid with a sling was a terrible shot. Dumber than…
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Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wizard of Oz
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 ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘. The concept for ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ centred around…
Every record tells a story 