Pink Floyd achieved success in London's underground music scene, led by the singer and guitarist Syd Barrett.

The group have sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million in the United States. Formed in 1965, Pink Floyd earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, later, their progressive rock music. It was the most thrown-together thing we’ve ever done.The discography of the English rock group Pink Floyd consists of 15 studio albums, four live albums, 12 compilation albums, five box sets, three EPs, and 27 singles. Pink Floyd would make better albums, but it remains the apotheosis of their experimental era – or as guitarist David Gilmour later described it, “Our weird shit.” Revisiting the album now is like entering a parallel universe inhabited by epic orchestral suites and songs created from the sounds of boiling kettles and frying bacon. Here you’ll find the earliest known recording of the AHM suite, plus filmed performances from Hyde Park and St Tropez, and much more besides.īut in 2016, Atom Heart Mother is probably better known for the cow than the music. Pink Floyd’s gargantuan seven-volume box set, The Early Years 1965-1972, dedicates an entire volume, Devi/Ation, to Atom Heart Mother and the Zabriskie Point soundtrack that inspired its title track.

Now, it seemed, they could do so without including their name or the album title on the cover. EMI’s powers that be already knew that strange-sounding hairy rock groups sold lots of records. Three months later, Atom Heart Mother became Pink Floyd’s first No.1 album.

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