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August 30, 2024

1968 Pink Floyd First International European Pop Festival Piper Club Programme May 6th 1968

Home / Pink Floyd Tour Database / Pink Floyd Tour Books / 1968 Pink Floyd First International European Pop Festival Piper Club Programme May 6th 1968 The First International European Pop Festival took place at the Piper Club in Rome, Italy on May 6th, 1968. Pink Floyd performed at this festival, and their setlist included: This performance is notable for its inclusion in various unofficial releases and recordings. The festival itself was part of a larger event that took place...

An Interview With The Nice’s Davy O’List By Keith Jordan & Davy O’List

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October 5, 2006

An Interview With The Nice’s Davy O’List By Keith Jordan & Davy O’List

Davy O’List formerly from the band The Nice (with ELP keyboardist Keith Emerson) and The Attack is a man of many talents and has worked with some great people throughout his career. Whilst on tour with The Nice as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience Tour between November and December 1967, Davy helped out with lead guitar for The Pink Floyd when Syd Barrett was unable to play due to drugs, symptoms of schizophrenia and perhaps...

The Floyd’s Primal Scream By Andy Gibbons

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February 6, 2006

The Floyd’s Primal Scream By Andy Gibbons

In this article, Andy Gibbons takes us from the political scene of 1968 when the early threads of ‘Careful With That Axe, Eugene’ were sewn together, through a multitude of dimensions and view points up until the raw energy of that scream was expressed as The Wall. ———————————————————— Roger Waters circa 1968 It is May 1968. In Paris the streets erupt into protests which threaten to topple the government and across the world youth is...