The year they were regulars on the city’s club circuit with regular With Barrett serving as frontman and backed by one of rock’sĮarliest light shows, the band made their 1966 debut at London’s The Sound (Barrett’s inspiration for the name reportedly coming from a pair ofįavorite LPs by Georgia blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Barrett, Mason, Rogers and Wright quickly regrouped as The Pink Floyd Unfortunately, artistic and personality clashes saw band collapse. Barrett was attending London’s Camberwell School of theĪrts and in 1965 Rogers asked him to join the band. Sigma 6 morphed in The T-Set, the The Architectural Abdabs, and The Lead guitarist Bob Close replacing Metcalf, Rogers switched over to bass and Hooked up with classmates Nick Mason (drums) and Rick Wright (keyboards),īassist Clive Metcalf and singers Juliette Gale and Keith Nobel to form the Went to London’s Regent Street Polytech to study architecture where he When in the early 1960s when they were attending high school in Cambridge In the interests of time, the executive summary goes something likeīarrett, guitarist/bassist Roger Waters, and keyboardist Rick Wright met There are literally miles of printed and online materialĬovering the ‘birth’ of Pink Floyd.
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