Comfortably Numb

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The acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert (“The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd…nearly as essential as the music itself.”—Austin Chronicle)
Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with bandmembers as well as the group’s friends, road crew, musicalcontemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce ariveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. Wefollow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to thestadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to theacrimonious schisms of the late ’80s and ’90s. Along the way there arefascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett’s chaotic life at the timeof Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band’s painstaking andByzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractiousnegotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in HydePark. Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous–and most English–rock band.