1963–1967: Early years
Formation
Roger Waters and Nick Mason met while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street. They first played music together in a

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Genres
Considered one of the UK's first psychedelic music groups, Pink Floyd began their career at the vanguard of London's underground music scene, appearing at UFO Club and Middle Earth (club).

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Marked by Waters' philosophical lyrics, Rolling Stone described Pink Floyd as "purveyors of a distinctively dark vision". Author Jere O'Neill Surber wrote: "their interests are truth and illusion, life and death, time and space, causality and chance, compassion and

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Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successfuland influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States, and 37.9 million albums sold in the US since 1993.

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Studio albums
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
• A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
• More (1969)

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• Pink Floyd World Tour (1968)
• The Man and The Journey Tour (1969)
• Atom Heart Mother World Tour (1970–71)

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• Syd Barrett – lead and rhythm guitars, vocals (1964–1968) (died 2006 )
• Bob Klose – lead guitar (1964–1965)
• David Gilmour – lead and rhythm guitars, vocals, bass, keyboards, synthesisers (1967–1995, 2005, 2012–2014)

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