Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake (2008) [EPUB] [PDF] {VTS}

Title: Comfortably Numb - The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
Author: Mark Blake
Category: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Da Capo Press (November 25, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306817527
ISBN-13: 978-0306817526


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A truly fascinating, detailed account of one of the greatest and most popular bands in Rock history, Pink Floyd and how they redefined psychedelic music and blazed new trails in sound and content as well as the visual presentation of their concerts. Promotional info/publisher's summary - "Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group’s friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late ’80s and ’90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett’s chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band’s painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park.
Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous—and most English—rock band."

Review snippet from Pop Matters - "With Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, author Mark Blake peels back the layers of mystery around the band’s history with a supple, readable biography, replacing much hearsay and apocrypha with details and facts conveyed with the skepticism of a journalist and the passion of a fan.

Blake, a former editor with Britain’s Q Magazine and longtime contributor to Mojo, is especially good at exploring the clash and union of the personalities that formed “the Floyd” in all its permutations. He focuses on the two primary forces pivotal to its early and later creative fortunes: bass player and songwriter Roger Waters, the band’s mercurial philosopher, the legendarily difficult architect of the Floyd’s ascension as a pop-cultural force; and Roger (Syd) Barrett, artist, singer and songwriter, the visionary Icarus whose psychological breakdown changed the band’s view of itself, its music and the way the world viewed Pink Floyd." - Michael E. Ross

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