Pink Floyd’s first frontman may have taken his oddball sensibility with him when he left the band-and brought it to his captivatingly weird solo work-but his presence remained with them for years afterward and haunts one of their finest achievements, 1975’s Wish You Were Here. This quick survey also underestimates the importance of Syd Barrett. It leaves out a misbegotten, but notable excursion into ballet (!), and experiments with found sound recordings in the late-60s. It’s easy to find fault with this schematic outline of Pink Floyd’s career-which leaves out their detours into film soundtracks with More, Obscured by Clouds, and an aborted score for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point. Finally, the fifth and final iteration, critically snubbed but commercially successful, left the disaffected Waters to his solo work and went on with Gilmour at the helm to record A Momentary Lapse of Reason, The Division Bell, and twenty years later, the final Pink Floyd album, the mostly instrumental Endless River, made in 2014 after keyboardist Richard Wright’s death and drawing on recordings from The Division Bell sessions.
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