David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett they attend

the school for architects of Cambridge, with John Lennon

and Mick Jagger. All the members come from bourgeois parents

and have one wealthy life. Waters was son of Mary

(principal and political activist) and Erich Fletcher Waters

(teacher of religion). It's father came killed from a bullet

on the beach of Anzio with to 40000 English young people.

This event marked he at point to make himself touchy and cynical

In fact it is obvious that some particular of " The Wall "

represent true and own moments of its life, dominated from the

figure of the mother who perhaps turned out choking in the

attempt to compensate the lack of the father. Barrett soon began

to play, the father bought to it one guitar to 15 years; between

it's passions there was the painting. In 1962 it played with a local

group, the " Mottoes ". In this period knows Gilmour,

the two met itself in the pause lunch in order to play.

Gilmour made part of the group " Jokers Wild ". Barrett and Waters

move themselves to London, Roger knows Wright and Mason.

The three fuse " Sigma 6 " with Waters to the lead guitar, Wright

to the rhythm guitar, Mason on drums, Clive Metcalf to the bass

and the singers Keith Noble and Juliette Gale. They change

the name in " T-set ", then in " Meggadeaths", "ArchitecturalAbdabs",

finally only " Abdabs ". Barrett and Bob Close join

to the group but he will go out little time after. They change

of new the name in " Pink Floyd Sound ", on idea of Barrett,

rifared itself the two names of the bluesman Pink Anderson

and Floyd Council. The first concert is carried out in the autumn

of 1965 to Countdown Club, played blues classics mixed with

songs of the Rolling Stones. 13 March 1966 holds a concert

in a premises important: the " Marquee Club ", that evening sees

them Peter Jenner, university professor to the university of London

that that it dreammed to become manager of a musical group.

To the end of the summer it convinces them to sign a contract

with the " Blackhill Enterprises ", founded from same he. Jenner

determined to eliminate the word " Sound " from the name

of the group. Slides additions and lights to music come.

Two friends of Barrett create the liquid slides; mixed themselves

with the colors and using one torch to warm it and one hair

dryers to make cold it, formed one series of colorful bubbles

that moving for the screen. 15 October 1966 plays in order

to inaugurate review " IT " and later on l"' UFO Club ", where

in the first months of 1967 they become the stable group.

The first single " Arnold Layne " come out to February, " See Emily

Play " to May. They obtain a contract with " EMI " of Abbey Road

where there were the Beatles to record " Sergeant Pepper' s "

the album exits to August, but the first signs of breach are

caught a glimpse with Barrett: Syd plants all and goes to

Cambridge from the mother, one joins to the single group in last

the sitting in order to realize the disc. During a television show it

refuses to mime the songs in playback, in the last concerts rooms

on the theater box but it is limited to play the same chord to the

infinite; in study it changes often the shape of the songs. To the

end of 1967 the contribution of Barrett is null, enters Gilmour and

they try to play in five, but they resist little. In January 1968 Syd

abandons the group. It will publish two album soloist and go out

definitively from music. Today he lives in residence the London

Chelsea Cloisters, fattened and with shaven hats. In 1982 " The

Final Cut " exits, last album with Roger Waters I armed a prey to

the darkness and egocentrism, it will continue from soloist and he

will record the album. The three remaining continue to play, let

out beyond that collections and live, " A Momentary Lapse of

Reason " in 1987 and " The Division Bell " in 1994

than still it remains the last study album.