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The Origin Story of Pink Floyd
The origin story of Pink Floyd starts out much like any other. A few like-minded people meet, find a mutual appreciation for some of the same music, and decide to make their own.
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It’s the journey in between – the ups, the downs, the musical evolutions and lineup changes – that made the band the icons they are today.
Scholarly Beginnings
It was 1960s London when guitarist Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboardist Richard Wright met while studying architecture at a polytechnic institution that is now the University of Westminster.
It was an uneventful meeting that would become one of the most significant moments in the formation of Pink Floyd.
“We sort of met because Roger knew that I had a car,” Mason shared on Brian Johnson’s A Life on the Road television series (via societyofrock.com).
“I’m not sure he knew what the car was because actually it was an Austin 7 Chummy with a top speed of 20mph and had no brakes!
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