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A Brief History of Pink Floyd Kindle Edition

by Andrew Means (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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With two of the most successful albums in rock history, the members of Pink Floyd are among a select few rock musicians to have left an indelible mark on the cultural life of their times.
Their dazzling emergence in the mid 1960s put them at the fulcrum of British youth’s social and artistic experimentation. In early days, songs like “See Emily Play”, written by their singer Syd Barrett, helped revolutionize the content of pop music. Later, the group’s instrumentals extended the range of what was conceivable in the genre. Worldwide acclaim followed with the albums The Dark Side Of the Moon and The Wall.
This brief history describes the group’s path from Barrett’s inspired but short-lived leadership to the group’s eventual disintegration and sporadic revivals. Among highlights, it chronicles the rivalry between bassist Roger Waters and guitarist David Gilmour, Waters’ departure, and Gilmour’s determination to steer the band to a career-capping high note.

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Andrew Means grew up in Britain and has lived in and around Phoenix, Arizona for 30 years. As a journalist, he has written about music, entertainment and the arts for British and U.S. media.
In addition to his memoir about the country music entertainer Marty Robbins, his history of Pink Floyd and his student's guide to George Orwell, he writes fiction as A.L.Means, among other pen names. Foreign Ways is the first collection of short stories by A.L.Means.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005TPFLLE
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 270 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 86 pages
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    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Andrew L. Means

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Andrew Means grew up in Britain and has lived in and around Phoenix, Arizona for 30 years. As a journalist, he has covered music, entertainment and the arts for British and U.S. media.

He has written a memoir about the country music entertainer Marty Robbins (entitled Some Memories - Growing Up With Marty Robbins), a biography of the rock group Pink Floyd and an introduction to novelist and essayist George Orwell.

He writes fiction as A.L.Means, among other pen names. He most recent novel with this pen name is an erotic travelogue entiteld A Passion Worth Pursuing, published with eXtasy Books.

Previous work includes a novel, Shine Like The Sun, a set of short stories entitled Foreign Ways, and two tales for children and the young at heart: The Trouble Upstream and When Rabbits Ran Rampant - The Book of Sylvilagus.

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Brian Ploss
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the read even if was for free.
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2019
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This book had the potential to be solid concept condensing the long and storied and even more complex history of Floyd but honestly failed miserably. To anyone with even a brief knowledge of Floyd, they would have a hard time reading reading past the first few chapters and definitely bailing out by the conclusion of DSOTM chapter which is where I am at writing this. While as a reader you can overlook the what can be at times headscratching personal opinions, the grievous errors of well known facts is just impossible to ignore.

The writer did himself such an injustice setting himself up for total and otter failure when he states in the preamble that this is a 2nd edition and elected to not fix the glaring errors but just looking to clean up some absolutely small nothing items amounting to not even the after dinner mint of a bad meal.
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Richard
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst pink Floyd book ever
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2013
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Probably the worst pink Floyd book ever. WHO wrote this carp no idea.typical not there didn't understand anything book.as Dylan would say something I s happening but you don't know what it is do you insert withers name.
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