British pop rock group, originally composed by Syd Barret (Cambridge, UK, 1946), Nick Mason (Birmingham, id., 1945), Roger Waters (Cambridge, UK, 1944) and Richard Wright (London, 1945). The group went through two well-defined stages, the first with Roger Waters and Syd Barret as creative leaders (played by guitarist David Gilmour when he was expelled for his problems with drugs), and the second after the departure of Roger Waters.
Their psychedelic musical style and the spectacular staging of their concerts gave them their own personality within the world of popular music, to the point of considering them as the parents of a new style that was called symphonic rock. Its popularity worldwide began to grow with the publication, in 1973, of the album Dark side of the moon. In 1980 they published the one that became the group most reputed disc, The Wall, of which three years later the animated film of the same title would be extracted, carried out by Bob Geldof.
In 1983, and coinciding with the abandonment of Waters, whose excessive role had made life coexist in the group, it dissolved. Four years later, Mason, Wright and Gilmour met again, prompting a lawsuit filed by Waters over ownership of the original name. Resolved the case in favor of David Gilmour and company, the group Pink Floyd returned to the world of music with a disc that became an immediate success, A momentary lapse of reason (1987).
The song that I like the most is wish you were here.
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