There is a deep connection between The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Decades ago, Paul McCartney accurately predicted how the sound ...
Pink Floyd were supposed to compose the entire soundtrack for Antonioni's famous film. The director even put a camp bed in ...
The kids who bought Meddle in 1971 didn’t ask ‘Where’s Syd?’, they increasingly asked ... bulk of the recording work at London’s Abbey Road studio. “They were left alone,” recalls ...
The guitar was taken over by psychedelic rock icon Syd Barrett, who was able to capture ... and successful in the band he started without him. Barrett made a surprise appearance at the Abbey Road ...
The magic and mystery surrounding the architect of Pink Floyd endures – and a larger canvas emerges of a confident, ...
The life of Syd Barrett was not an easy one, but the legacy he left behind is one of the most respected in psychedelic rock.
“After he [Barrett] left the band ... He added, “They’re disturbing, and not a lot of fun, but they’re some of Syd’s finest work – though God knows, I wouldn’t wish anyone to ...
Dave Harries, an engineer who worked with the Beatles during those sessions, credited the console as the reason Abbey Road sounds so good. “The album has a distinctive sound that hallmarked the ...
“Abbey Road is one of the best albums that’s ever been made, and it sounds so good because of this recording console,” said Dave Harries, who participated in numerous Beatles recording ...
“This particular console is a one-off,” Dave Harries, a technical engineer who worked with The Beatles while they recorded Abbey Road, is quoted in the same article. “It sounds so good that ...