It fared slightly better than Arnold Layne, peaking at number 6 in the UK. 40 The band performed on the BBCs Look of the Week, where Waters and Barrett, erudite and engaging, faced tough questioning from Hans Keller. 41 They appeared on the BBCs Top of the Pops, a popular programme that controversially required artists to mime their singing and playing. 42 Though Pink Floyd returned for two more performances, by the third, Barrett had begun to unravel, and around this time the band first noticed significant changes in his behaviour. 43 By early 1967, he was regularly using LSD, and Mason described him as completely distanced from everything going on. 44.Clockwise from bottom: Gilmour, Mason, Barrett, Waters and Wright.Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the progressive rock genre.Under Barretts leadership, they released two charting singles and a successful debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967).
Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concepts behind the bands peak of critical and commercial success with the albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979). Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd, rejoined later by Wright. The band produced two more albums A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994)and toured both albums before entering a long period of inactivity. In 2005, all but Barrett reunited for a one-off performance at the global awareness event Live 8. The last Pink Floyd studio album, The Endless River (2014), was based on unreleased material from the Division Bell recording sessions. The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are among the best-selling albums of all time, and both have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Four of the bands albums topped US or UK record charts, and hit singles produced include See Emily Play (1967), Money (1973), the three-part composition Another Brick in the Wall (1979), Not Now John (1983), On the Turning Away (1987) and High Hopes (1994). They were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2008, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden presented Pink Floyd with the Polar Music Prize for their contribution to modern music. Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student, nb 1 joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6. Waters played lead guitar, Mason drums, and Wright rhythm guitar (since there was rarely an available keyboard). The band performed at private functions and rehearsed in a tearoom in the basement of the Regent Street Polytechnic. They performed songs by the Searchers and material written by their manager and songwriter, fellow student Ken Chapman. Wright, who was taking a break from his studies, did not participate in the session. When the RAF assigned Dennis a post in Bahrain in early 1965, Barrett became the bands frontman. Later that year, they became the resident band at the Countdown Club near Kensington High Street in London, where from late night until early morning they played three sets of 90 minutes each. During this period, spurred by the groups need to extend their sets to minimise song repetition, the band realised that songs could be extended with lengthy solos, wrote Mason. After pressure from his parents and advice from his college tutors, Klose quit the band in mid-1965 and Barrett took over lead guitar. The group first referred to themselves as the Pink Floyd Sound in late 1965. Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Jenner was impressed by the sonic effects Barrett and Wright created, and with his business partner and friend Andrew King became their manager. The pair had little experience in the music industry and used Kings inheritance to set up Blackhill Enterprises, purchasing about 1,000 (equivalent to 18,800 in 2019 24 ) worth of new instruments and equipment for the band. Following a performance at a Catholic youth club, the owner refused to pay them, claiming that their performance was not music. When their management filed suit in a small claims court against the owner of the youth organisation, a local magistrate upheld the owners decision. The band was much better received at the UFO Club in London, where they began to build a fan base. Barretts performances were enthusiastic, leaping around. Three days later, Pink Floyd signed with EMI, receiving a 5,000 advance (equivalent to 91,400 in 2019 24 ). EMI released the bands first single, Arnold Layne, with the B-side Candy and a Currant Bun, on 10 March 1967 on its Columbia label. Both tracks were recorded on 29 January 1967. Arnold Laynes references to cross-dressing led to a ban by several radio stations; however, creative manipulation by the retailers who supplied sales figures to the music business meant that the single peaked in the UK at number 20. It fared slightly better than Arnold Layne, peaking at number 6 in the UK. The band performed on the BBCs Look of the Week, where Waters and Barrett, erudite and engaging, faced tough questioning from Hans Keller. They appeared on the BBCs Top of the Pops, a popular programme that controversially required artists to mime their singing and playing. Though Pink Floyd returned for two more performances, by the third, Barrett had begun to unravel, and around this time the band first noticed significant changes in his behaviour. By early 1967, he was regularly using LSD, and Mason described him as completely distanced from everything going on.
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