HISTORICAL FACTS: Rick wright - The Untold Story

Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett honoured by hometown football club

Barrett died aged 60 in 2006 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Evening Standard · Oct 5

“I’ve spent 20 years of my life building a career. I don’t see why I should have to give that up just because one guy says he doesn’t want to do it any more”: The bitter battle for the soul of Pink Floyd

In 1985, Roger Waters split from his Pink Floyd bandmates,causing a titanic struggle that endures to this day

Louder · Jul 12

"It was quite a shock to be confronted with people down the front all screaming for us." The story of the song that turned Pink Floyd into rock heavyweights - and set the scene for decades of bickering

Money: A song so good it's been recorded three times – once by Pink Floyd, once by David Gilmour, and once by Roger Waters

Louder · Jul 8

“They told me, ‘David Gilmour’s not going to like this. You’re going to hear some thunder!’ You think he’s going to be one way and then he goes completely the other. And that’s good”: Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River

Gilmour, Nick Mason and colleagues on assembling the unexpected 2014 album that paid tribute to Rick Wright, and his calming presence in a group who were “never a jolly bunch of friends”

Louder · Nov 7, 2025

“I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write

The guitarist’s wife and long-term creative partner helped him put a full-stop on The Endless River, before the couple brought his 2015 album Rattle That Lock to fruition

Louder · Sep 18, 2025

And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2025

“It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell

Pink Floyd explored the theme of communication on 1994 album The Division Bell – despite their infamous communication issues

Louder · Mar 28, 2025

“I was unusually nervous… You may be doing exactly the same set, but it can have a completely different vibe.” When David Gilmour revisited Pompeii and faced the ghosts of Pink Floyd

Safer pyrotechnics, local hero status and the benefit of a Wallace & Gromit movie helped make his 2017 concert movie a very different experience from Floyd’s 1972 release

Louder · Mar 6, 2025

"As a guitarist he has few peers but as a songwriter he's no Roger Waters": David Gilmour soars on beautifully crafted if ultimately unchallenging debut solo album

Released in between Pink Floyd's Animals and The Wall, David Gilmour's self-titled solo album laid the groundwork for future releases

Louder · Jan 27, 2025

“I was on Battersea Bridge when the pig broke free. I drove to the power station and saw this look of schoolboy glee on Roger Waters’ face… ‘You sort this out, Po’”: Aubrey Powell’s Hipgnosis story

Storm Thorgerson’s right-hand man on breaking the law, pushing creative concepts, refusing to work with record labels, watching Pink Floyd get rich and staying friends by never taking sides

Louder · Dec 3, 2024