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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Pink Floyd

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From London, England. Named after blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

PINK FLOYD'S ECHOES FROM YESTERDAY HEARD TODAY AS BAND BUILDS ON ITS AMAZING STREAK AS ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING ARTISTS IN MUSIC HISTORY

The music of Pink Floyd is more than simply an echo of days past. The release of the definitive retrospective Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd on November 6th, through Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI in the rest of the world (on two CD, cassette and vinyl albums), is a reminder that Pink Floyd continues to gain new fans.

Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide. On average, more than 8,000 copies of Dark Side Of The Moon are scanned each week in the U.S. alone, and Wish You Were Here and The Wall are also stalwarts on the Billboard Top Pop Catalog chart. Since the band's contemporary fans have long since replaced, or added to, their vinyl Pink Floyd collections with CD versions, clearly new generations are discovering the intense, cinematic, epic rock of Pink Floyd.

Here are other echoes continuing to be heard today...

Among all artists, Pink Floyd ranks #7 in number of albums sold in the U.S. (68.5 million), behind The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Garth Brooks, Elvis Presley, the Eagles and Billy Joel.

Only Pink Floyd, The Beatles and the Eagles have two albums in the Top 20 of the biggest selling albums in the U.S. Pink Floyd is represented by the #3 The Wall (23 times platinum) and #19 Dark Side Of The Moon (15 times platinum, approximately 29 million copies worldwide).
With the October 13, 2001 edition of Billboard, Dark Side Of The Moon, released March 17, 1973, celebrated its 1,278th week on either the Top 200 Pop Album or Top Pop Catalog Album chart. No other album has stayed longer on any chart in history.

Dark Side Of The Moon was initially in the Top 200 for 741 nearly consecutive weeks, more than 14 years (591 consecutive weeks from 1976-1987). Oddly, the album never reached #1 in the band's native U.K. and hit #1 in the U.S. for just one week (April 28, 1973). The album broke the six years-plus record of Carole King's 1971 landmark Tapestry. The previous champ of chart longevity was a 1958 greatest hits album from Johnny Mathis.

In 1991, Dark Side Of The Moon returned to the charts after Billboard instituted its Pop Catalog category. The album not only went to #1 and established residency on that chart for the past 10 years but has remained almost entirely in the Top 10.

Dark Side Of The Moon is tied for the fourth biggest selling album in Capitol Records history, behind only The Beatles, The Beatles 1967-1970 and Garth Brooks' No Fences.

Available on vinyl and cassette since its release, Dark Side Of The Moon was one of the first albums to popularize CD technology, and has been available on compact disc since August 1984. In fact, it's EMI CD label number is EMI001. The disc is one of the Top 10 best-selling CDs of all time.

There is more to Pink Floyd than Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall. Of the band's Capitol albums, Wish You Were Here (1975) also reached #1 and is six times platinum. Meddle (1971) is double platinum. Ummagumma (1969) is platinum. Three other Capitol albums are gold.
Pink Floyd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Pink Floyd I (1965 - 1968)

Syd Barrett - guitar/vocals - b. Roger Keith Barrett, January 6, 1946, Cambridge, England.
Richard Wright - keyboards/vocals - b. July 28, 1945, London, England.
Roger Waters - bass/vocals - b. September 6, 1944, Surrey, England.
Nick Mason - drums - b. January 27, 1945, Birmingham, England.

Album:
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" (1967)

Pink Floyd II (1968 - 1969)

Syd Barrett - guitar/vocals
Richard Wright - keyboards/vocals
Roger Waters - bass/vocals
Nick Mason - drums
David Gilmour - guitar/vocals - b. March 6, 1944, Cambridge, England.

Album:
"A Saucerful of Secrets" (1968)

Pink Floyd III (1969 - 1982)

Richard Wright - keyboards/vocals
Roger Waters - bass/vocals
Nick Mason - drums
David Gilmour - guitar/vocals

Albums:
"More soundtrack" (1969)
"Ummagumma" (2-CDs) (1969)
"Atom Heart Mother" (1970)
"Meddle" (1971)
"Obscured by Clouds soundtrack" (1972)
"Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) - Single: "Money"
"Wish You Were Here" (1975)
"Animals" (1977)
"The Wall" (2-CDs) (1979) - Single: "Another Brick in the Wall"

Pink Floyd IV (1982 - 1984)

Roger Waters - bass/vocals
Nick Mason - drums
David Gilmour - guitar/vocals

Album:
"The Final Cut" (1983)

Pink Floyd V(1984 - 1987)

Nick Mason - drums
David Gilmour - guitar/vocals

Pink Floyd VI (1987 - Present)

Nick Mason - drums
David Gilmour - guitar/vocals
Richard Wright - keyboards/vocals

Albums:
"Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987)
"Delicate Sound of Thunder" (1988)
"The Division Bell" (1994)
"Pulse" (live) (2-CDs) (1995)

Compilations:

"Relics" (1971) - contains early material.
"A Nice Pair" (1973) - reissue of 1st two albums.
"A Collection of Great Dance Songs" (1981)
"Works" (1983) - more early material.
"Shine On" (9-CD box set) (1992)

Syd Barrett solo:

"The Madcap Laughs" (1970)
"Barrett" (1970)
"Opel" (1989)
"Crazy Diamond - The Complete Syd Barrett" (3-CD box set) (1994)
"Octopus: Best of Syd Barrett" (1994)

David Gilmour solo:

"David Gilmour" (1978)
"About Face" (1984)

Nick Mason solo:

"Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports" (1981)
"Profiles" (1985)

Roger Waters solo:

"Music from The Body soundtrack" (1970)
"The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" (1984)
"Radio K.A.O.S." (1987)
"The Wall - Live in Berlin" (2-CDs) (1990)
"Amused to Death" (1992)

Richard Wright solo:

"Wet Dream" (1978)
"Identity" (1984)
"Broken China" (1997)

Original Members Bios

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/bnd_bio.html

Pink Floyd Discography

http://www.tapscott.com/~robp/discography/discog.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PFArchives/DUS.htm

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/disco/disc_idx.html

Soundtracks and Videos

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/video/videofield.html

http://www.tapscott.com/~robp/floyd12.html

Photo Gallery

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/bnd_gal.html

http://www.pinkfloyd.net/pics/




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