Pink Floyd was formed in the Stormin' Sixties as an English rock band that played what they wanted. After the decline and exit of key member Syd Barret, and the introduction of member David Gilmour to the group composed of Roger Waters, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason, would be known as Pink Floyd and would sky rocket to success and shape the music industry to how we know it today.
Oh By the Way, Which One's Pink?
During the 60's Pink Floyd was still experimenting with their sound but quickly broke off from the psychadelic scene. By the 70's they had established their sound through carefully crafted keyboard, bass, and guitar harmonies as well a stringing together a series of philosophical lyrics and sounds for the listener's pleasure. They could not be placed in a genre and quicky had a watershed moment due to their collaboration, for it was in 1973 that their album "The Dark Side of the Moon," became a huge hit. It hit #1 on the sales and Pop Charts and stayed there for a whopping 741 weeks, only being removed on a technicality making it the #2 selling album of all time. Songs like "Money," "Us and Them," and "Time" cemented the band as a single making philosphical power house in the music industry and showed the band what success truly was.
Soon after the band decided to make another album called "Wish You Were Here" which became incredibly successful even though it was in the shadow of Dark Side. The album focused on the absence of Syd Barret from their band as well as the absence of humanity in the music industry. The first through "Wish You Were Here" and "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" while the latter is through "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar."
Soon after Roger Waters took creative control of the band which manifest itself in the album "Animals" and then in the 1979 rock epic, "The Wall." The album rocketed them to success once again but soon tore the band apart. Rogers soon went solo while the rest of the band wanted to continue under the leadership of Gilmour. Under the name Pink Floyd the made two new moderately successful albums "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987), and "The Division Bell" (1994). Rogers did sue the band for rights to the name but settled that they could use it. Their reunion was at the London Live 8 with Waters where a new reunion was hinted a possibility but not a reality.