1. LITERATURE IN MUSIC: PINK FLOYD

2. THE BAND: SOME BASIC FACTS
Pioneers of psychedelic music
One of the greatest rock bands ever
Albums -> milestones of XX century rock/electronic music

3. Underground London Clubs
THE BAND: ORIGINS
Mid-Sixties
Four students based in London: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Rick Wright
Underground London Clubs
Band name inspired by two bluesmen -> Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

4. Instrumental identity given by Syd Barrett
FIRST GIGS
1966 -> London clubs
Instrumental identity given by Syd Barrett
Immediate success -> first album (1967) -> The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
May 1967

5. SYD BARRETT
Quits the gigs with the band -> schizofrenia for LSD and pressure
David Gilmour joins the band -> replaces Syd as guitarist
Syd -> still creative mind -> isolation
Four left -> second album: A Saucerful of Secrets (more rock/blues)

6. FIRST ALBUMS Ummagumma
Atom heart mother -> progressive music (experimental)
Meddle -> more rock, suitable to public performance

7. THE MOVIE
Live at Pompeii

8. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (1973)
References to:
EFFIMERAL NATURE OF LIFE
MONEY
INCOMMUNICABILITY
MADNESS

9. The dark side and Stevenson
Example track -> Brain Damage
Every man has got an insane part inside their mind:
“The lunatic is in my head.  The lunatic is in my head  You raise the blade, you make the change  You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.  You lock the door  And throw away the key  There's someone in my head but it's not me.  And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear  You shout and no one seems to hear.  And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes  I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. ”

10. FOLLOWING ALBUMS Wish you were here
Animals -> criticism of society using animals as metaphors (Orwell)

11. Title = incommunicability between band and public
THE WALL (1979)
Title = incommunicability between band and public
Themes:
Discrimination
Education
Fascism
Show business

12. THE WALL AND DICKENS
Example track: Another Brick in the Wall Rigidity of school programs (banned by North Korea and South Africa for anti-authoritarian message) “We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone All in all it's just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall”