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With a music career spanning nearly half a century, Pink Floyd is one of the most successful rock bands in history. With more than 250 million album sales to their name, Pink Floyd continues to remain hugely popular worldwide. Both Rolling Stones and VH1 have named Pink Floyd one of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and they continue to attract new generations of fans. They were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Their 2011 "immersion" box sets for their classic Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here albums were met with unanimous critical acclaim and prolific press. The Wall Live concert tour featuring Roger Waters was the second highest grossing concert tour in North America in 2010 (over $89.5 million dollars) and the sixth highest in the world. In this, the first complete illustrated history of Pink Floyd from 1965 through today, author and journalist Hugh Fielder gets behind the wall and recounts the band's entire history, analyzes their recordings, and provides a complete discography. Readers will discover stories behind the band's formation, recordings, and tours, as well as the bitter disputes, both public and private. Complemented with more than 250 images, including live performance and candid off-stage photographs, as well as rare memorabilia like gig posters, concert tees, picture sleeves, backstage passes, buttons, and ticket stubs, this is the book that every Floyd fan will want on their shelf.
Synopsis
A complete illustrated history of one of the most popular rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd. With more than 250 images and a complete discography.
Synopsis
Hugh Fielder was born in Cambridge, England. In 1964, he asked his headmaster for an afternoon off school to go to a Rolling Stones concert. Permission was granted provided he write an essay about the concert. Unbeknown to him, his future career was now settled. He went to college in London in 1966, just in time for 1967 when he saw Jimi Hendrix five times, Cream eight times, the Who six times, and Pink Floyd three times. It was a good year.
Fielder joined the weekly rock newspaper Sounds in 1975 as news editor. For the next 13 years he watched punk come and go and the Eighties unfurl. He shared a spliff with Bob Marley, a cup of tea with Keith Richards, a pint with Robert Plant, a glass of wine with Roger Waters and David Gilmour (not together, obviously), and a frosty stare with Axl Rose. Mike Oldfield stripped naked in front of him and Bobby Womack fell asleep during the interview.
He worked at Billboard's London bureau from 1988-1991 and was editor of Tower Records' Top Magazine (the British equivalent of Pulse) from 1992-2002. Since then he has been freelance, writing regularly for Classic Rock magazine and national newspapers, working on numerous DVD music documentaries and appearing on radio.
He is the author of The Book Of Genesis, The Beatles Revealed, Lady Gaga: A Monster Romance, Punk: The Brutal Truth.
About the Author
Hugh Fielder was a news editor for Sounds, he worked at Billboard's London Bureau, and was editor of Tower Records' Top Magazine.