Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of "Pink Floyd"
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845132610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Best Pink Floyd Book Available W. Meadows If you are into Pink Floyd you must read this book. This is by far the best book on this band. As most of you know, Pink Floyd is very guarded when it comes to their past and their personal lives. Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out was supposed to be the definitive book about the band. It was learned that he allowed all of the Floyd members to edit out all of the dirt and honest truth he had written about each member. This left his book very lackluster.I can't imagine how long it took Mark Blake to research thi. "very good book i would recommend this to anyone who wants" according to david evans. very good book i would recommend this to anyone who wants to know about all the behind the scenes stories, things they did and how they dealt with them i was surprised about a lot of the stories in this book and i always felt that animals was the most under rated album they ever but out. Dr Beverly R Vincent said The definitive look at the band. Mark Blake has done a yeoman's job putting together a profile of the evolution of the band members associated with Pink Floyd over the past several decades. Whereas Nick Mason's book glossed over some of the grittier aspects of their lives, Blake has dug deep and turned over every stone. It's not a tell-all expose, but a frank look at sex, drugs and rock and roll as it pertained to one of the more mysterious bands of the "The definitive look at the band" according to Dr Beverly R Vincent. Mark Blake has done a yeoman's job putting together a profile of the evolution of the band members associated with Pink Floyd over the past several decades. Whereas Nick Mason's book glossed over some of the grittier aspects of their lives, Blake has dug deep and turned over every stone. It's not a tell-all expose, but a frank look at sex, drugs and rock and roll as it pertained to one of the more mysterious bands of the 20th century. Given how few interviews the band members granted over the years, a lot of it comes d. 0th century. Given how few interviews the band members granted over the years, a lot of it comes d
"The story of Pink Floyd is the story of the themes that raised and obsessed and tore at the band for almost four decades. That is, it's a story of madness, alienation, absence, hubris and a self-willed grace. There's really nothing else quite like it in popular music history."
Mark Blake is an editor at Mojo and Qand edited their special
Drawing on his own interviews with all of the band members, plus almost a hundred new interviews with the group's friends, road crew, producers, designers, former housemates and university colleagues - some of whom have never spoken before - as well as musical contemporaries including Pete Townshend and Alice Cooper, "Pigs Might Fly" follows Pink Floyd all the way from the early psychedelic nights at UFO in the mid-sixties to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, and finally the acrimonious schism that sundered the band in the eighties and nineties. As even Bob Geldof himself acknowledged, it was 'a far bigger story than Live 8 itself'. Now, in the first full-length history of the group for over 15 years, Mark Blake tells the complete story of how a group of middle-class Englishmen who grew up