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Pink Floyd

Terence Charles White is born in Barnstaple, Devon, UK. He will find success as guitarist Snowy White, working with Thin Lizzy and Pink Floyd, as well as pursuing his own solo career often in a blues-oriented vein.
Michael Kamen, the composer, conductor and orchestral arranger who will work with many rock acts including Pink Floyd, Metallica, Eric Clapton, Queen, David Bowie, is born in New York City, USA. Kamen will also be a founder member of classical crossover band The New York Rock And Roll Ensemble in 1967.
Watford Gap, the first of Britain's motorway service stations opens. The station's restaurant, The Blue Boar, will prove conveniently located as a stop-off for rock bands travelling back to London after gigs in the north of the country, so it will be visited in the early hours of the morning by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, The Soft Machine and many others. In 1977, on his album Bullinamingvase, Roy Harper will include a song called Watford Gap with the chorus, 'Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of c**p'.
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Guy Pratt is born in London, UK, the son of actor Mike Pratt. Guy will become a well-known session bassist, working with Pink Floyd, Kirsty MacColl, The Smiths, Madonna, Robbie Robertson, Roxy Music, Michael Jackson and others.
Gene Vincent plays at The Gaumont State, Kilburn, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Those Without play at The Congregational Church Youth Club, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe. Their guitarist is Syd Barrett, who will later form Pink Floyd.
Jazz and classical guitarist http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-gilmore-mn0000214159/biographyDavid Gilmore (not the one in Pink Floyd) is born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Les Jeux Interdits, The Victoria Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.
Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Comberton College, Cambridge, England, UK.
Guitarist Dave Gilmour accepts Roger Waters' invitation to join Pink Floyd, because the band's original guitarist and singer Syd Barrett has become unreliable.
Pink Floyd have a recording session in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, working on Corporal Clegg and Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
Pink Floyd have a recording session at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, working on It Would Be So Nice.
Pink Floyd have an Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, recording session, working on It Would Be So Nice.
Pink Floyd have a recording session in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, working on Let There Be More Light and Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
Pink Floyd play at Westfield College, Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe, and have an Abbey Road Studios, London, recording session, working on See Saw.
Pink Floyd play at The Middle Earth Club, London, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Alexis Korner and Free. The event is deejayed by Jeff Dexter.
Pink Floyd play at The Punchbowl Hotel, Lapworth, Warwickshire, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd record a session for the BBC Radio's Top Gear show, at 201 Piccadilly, Studio 1, London, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd play the last of three nights at The Scene club, New York City, USA.
The Kinks, Gilbert Becaud, Jacques Dutronc and others play in the Seventh Festival Teenagers at Le Chatelet, Belgium, Europe. Pink Floyd are also billed to appear but somehow miss the show.
Pink Floyd release their last UK single for over a decade, Point Me At The Sky/Careful With That Axe, Eugene.
Pink Floyd play at a Fairport Convention benefit gig in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd play at Friars, Dunstable, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
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Pink Floyd play at The Refectory Hall, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK, Europe.
The film Zabriskie Point, with a soundtrack by The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Youngbloods and others, opens at cinemas in the USA.
Pink Floyd play at Akademiska Foreningens Stora Sal, Lund, Sweden, Europe.
Pink Floyd play at The Sportpalast, West Berlin, West Germany, Europe.
Pink Floyd release a new album, Dark Side Of The Moon, in the UK.
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Pink Floyd, The Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart, Roy Harper, and Linda Lewis play at Knebworth Festival, Knebworth Park, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, UK. Pink Floyd's typically understated set opens with two Spitfires flying overhead. The Steve Miller Band perform their future No1 hit single Rock'N Me live for the first time. Roy Harper arrives backstage wearing a cowboy hat and riding a white charger which proceeds to evacuate its bowels, somewhat undermining the romantic illusion Harper is trying to create.
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When black children in South Africa adopt Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd as their anthem, censorship rears its ugly head - the single is banned by the apartheid regime.
Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side Of The Moon notches up its 402nd week on the Billboard album chart in the USA, making it the longest-running rock album ever.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd takes part in a Guitar Greats night at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, USA. The show also includes Johnny Winter, Link Wray, Dave Edmunds, Dickey Betts, Neal Schon and Lita Ford.
Roger Waters plays at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA.
Pink Floyd's second of five shows at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, New York State, USA, is filmed for their concert video, Delicate Sound of Thunder.
Pink Floyd, Genesis and Eric Clapton are the main attractions at a benefit gig in Cowdray Park, Sussex, UK, for the King Edward VII Hospital. While Genesis are playing, Phil Collins begins to feel it is time to leave.
Roger Waters plays at The Rosemont Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Roger Waters plays at The Rosemont Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Brian Wilson, founder and leader of The Beach Boys, plays a solo concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London. UK. Attending Wilson's three nights of performances of Beach Boys classics plus the entire Pet Sounds album, are Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Elvis Costello, Richard Ashcroft, James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Chemical Brothers, Ray Davies (The Kinks), Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Karl Wallinger (World Party), Suprgrass, Teenage Fanclub, Paul Weller and Glenn Tilbrook.
On his Dark Side Of Moon Live tour, Roger Waters plays the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. His former Pink Floyd colleague Nick Mason joins him as a guest for the show.
On his Dark Side Of The Moon tour, Roger Waters plays at Ciudad Atarfe, Granada, Spain, Europe.
A regular customer of a record store in Christchurch, New Zealand, Oceania, reserves a copy of The Wall by Pink Floyd, then robs the till. He proves easy for local police to catch, having left his name and phone number when reserving the LP.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the third of nine nights at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at Beira Rio Stadium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, South America.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the first of two nights at Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Roger Waters, who first found fame as bassist and songwriter with Pink Floyd, begins a spell of performing as a guest in a revival of The Exonerated, a play about wrongfully convicted survivors of death row, at the Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
On The Wall Tour 2013, Roger Waters plays at Vassil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe.
Roger Waters, Bon Jovi, Neil Diamond, Lady Gaga and Kenny Chesney are among the winners at the Billboard Touring Awards at The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Take That's first release as a three piece, entitled III, becomes the most pre-ordered album of all time on Amazon.co.uk overtaking Pink Floyd, One Direction, Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle.
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