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Pinkney Anderson is born in Laurens, South Carolina, USA. Under the name Pink Anderson he will enjoy a long career, and will record for Prestige-Bluesville in the 1960s. Rock band Pink Floyd will take the first half of their name from him, and the second half from another bluesman, Floyd Council.
The compilation album Johnny's Greatest Hits by Johnny Mathis, becomes the first greatest hits LP to enter the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA, where it will remain for almost nine and a half years. This record will not be broken until 1982 when it is overtaken by Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
Geoff Mott And The Mottoes play together for the first time in Cambridge, UK. The band will soon split up but one member, Syd Barrett, will go on to form Pink Floyd.
Joker's Wild, including future Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, play at The May Ball, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK.Pink Floyd record an early version of their rambling space-rock instrumental, Interstellar Overdrive, at the Thompson Private Recording Company, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK.
Pink Floyd play at Tiles Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
Vibrato, a pop music tv show in Belgium, Europe, transmits a mimed recording of Pink Floyd performing Apples And Oranges.
Pink Floyd play a brief live set at the Paris Cinema Studio, London, England, UK, Europe, for the BBC radio show Nite Ride.Pink Floyd play at Lanchester College, Coventry, Leicestershire, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd play at the AFAN Festival of Progressive Rock in AFAN Lido Indoor Sports Centre, Port Talbot, South Wales, supported by Fairport Convention, Sam Apple Pie and East Of Eden.
Pink Floyd play at The Ballroom, University of Nottingham, Beeston, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd play at Refectory Hall, Leeds University, Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe.Pink Floyd perform their latest work, Dark Side Of The Moon, during the first of four shows at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
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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On their The Wall tour, Pink Floyd play another night at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, Long Island, New York State, USA.
Pink Floyd play the fourth of six nights at Earls Court Exhibition Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd's About Face tour opens at The National Stadium, Dublin, Eire, Europe.
After 740 weeks (724 of which were consecutive) in the Billboard Top 200 albums in the USA, Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd finally drops out.
Russian cosmonauts take a cassette of the latest Pink Floyd album, Delicate Sound Of Thunder, aboard Soyuz 7 and play it in orbit, making Pink Floyd the first rock band to be played in space. Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason attend the launch of the spacecraft.Steve O'Rourke, who managed the Pink Floyd from 1968, dies following a stroke in Miami, Florida, USA.
On his Dark Side Of Moon Live tour, Roger Waters plays at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, USA.
On his Dark Side Of Moon Live tour, Roger Waters plays the second of two nights at The O2 Arena, UK.
When rock musician Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is the guest on BBC radio show Desert Island Discs, his musical choices include tracks by Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and Chet Baker. His choice of a luxury to take to his desert island is a Bosendorfer grand piano.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the first of four nights at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the first of three nights at Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania.On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the last of nine nights at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and his wife, Polly Samson, are evacuated from their mansion in East Sussex, UK, when an unexploded World War II German bomb is found beneath the building during renovations.On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
On The Wall Tour 2013, Roger Waters plays at The O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe.
On The Wall Tour 2013, Roger Waters plays at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Europe, UK.
When singer-songwriter Ben Watt plays at Islington Assembly Hall, London, England, UK, he is joined by Dave Gilmour, guitarist of Pink Floyd, during three songs.1900 |
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