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In the beginning - well, there were two beginnings: one at Regent Street Polytechnic in 1965, where 3 architecture students, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright started doing the guitar, keyboard and drums thing with a brilliant but wayward Camberwell Art College kid called "Syd" - though his real name was Roger - Barrett. The other beginning happened at Cambridge more than 10 years earlier: Waters went to primary school with Barrett, who later strummed around with another local guitarist, David Gilmour. Out of these overlapping social nuclei emerged the 30 year phenomenon called PINK FLOYD. The name, like most of the early music, was Syd's, a homage to two of his old blues heroes, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. The idea was to combine bluesy, free form improvisations with the sort of weird lighting effects that a generation in thrall to hallucinogenic substances called "psychedelic". The FLOYD took their lighting cues though, not from the drugs, but from a lecturer at Regent Street Poly, Mike Leonard, who let them live and rehearse in his house in North London; Leonard, an audio-visual specialist, helped to organise their shows and considered himself a group member. This is how Pink Floyd started. |
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 David Gilmour |
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 Richard Wright |
