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English rock band pp|small=yes featured article Use British English November 2024 November 2024 Infobox musical artist | name = Pink Floyd | background = group_or_band | image = Pink Floyd - all members.jpg | alt = A black-and-white photo of the five band members standing in front of a brick wall in 1968. | image_size = 250px | caption = Pink Floyd in January 1968. Clockwise from bottom: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright. | origin = London, England | alias = plainlist| * Sigma 6 (1963–1964) * The Meggadeaths (1964) * The Abdabs (1964) * The Screaming Abdabs (1964) * Leonard's Lodgers (1964) * The Spectrum Five (1964) * The Tea Set (1964–1965) * The Pink Floyd Sound (1965) * The Pink Floyd (1965–1967) | genre = flatlist| * Progressive rock * art rock * psychedelic rock * space rock * experimental rock | discography = flatlist| * Pink Floyd discography Albums and singles * List of songs recorded by Pink Floyd|songs | years_active = flatlist| * 1965–1994 * 2005 * 2007 * 2013–2014 * 2022 | label = flatlist| * EMI Records|EMI * Columbia Graphophone Company|EMI Columbia * Tower Records (record label)|Tower * Harvest Records|Harvest * Capitol Records|Capitol * Columbia Records|Columbia * Sony Music * Parlophone | spinoffs = Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets | website = URL|pinkfloyd.com | current_members = * Nick Mason * David Gilmour | past_members = * Roger Waters * Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright * Syd Barrett ''Pink Floyd'' are an English Rock music|rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music|psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments, philosophical lyrics, and elaborate Pink Floyd live performances|live shows. They became a leading band of the progressive rock genre, cited by some as the greatest progressive rock band of all time. Pink Floyd were founded in 1965 by Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals, Nick Mason (drums, Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals) and Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals). With Barrett as their main songwriter, they released two hit singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play", and the successful debut album ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' (all 1967). David Gilmour (guitar, vocals) joined in 1967; Barrett left in 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. While all four members contributed compositions, Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concept album|concepts behind Pink Floyd's most successful albums, ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973, ''Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here'' (1975, ''Animals (Pink Floyd album)|Animals'' (1977) and ''The Wall'' (1979). The musical film based on ''The Wall'', ''Pink Floyd – The Wall'' (1982, won two BAFTA Awards. Pink Floyd also composed several film scores. Following personal tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1981, followed by Waters in 1985. Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd, rejoined later by Wright. They produced the albums ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' (1987) and ''The Division Bell'' (1994, both backed by major tours. In 2005, all but Barrett reunited for a performance at the global awareness event Live 8. Barrett died in 2006 and Wright in 2008. The last Pink Floyd studio album, ''The Endless River'' (2014, was based on unreleased material from the ''Division Bell'' recording sessions. In 2022, Gilmour and Mason reformed Pink Floyd to release the song "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. By 2013, Pink Floyd had sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making them one of the List of best-selling music artists|best-selling music artists of all time. ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' and ''The Wall'' were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame,Cite web 23 November 2017 For The Record: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/pink-floyds-wall-record-4 7 September 2020 GRAMMY.com 11 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200811161947/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/pink-floyds-wall-record-4live and are among the List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums of all time. Four Pink Floyd albums topped the US Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200 and five topped the UK Albums Chart. Their hit singles include "Arnold Layne" (1967, "See Emily Play" (1967, "Money (Pink Floyd song)|Money" (1973, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979, "Not Now John" (1983, "On the Turning Away" (1987) and "High Hopes (Pink Floyd song)|High Hopes" (1994). Pink Floyd were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2008, they were awarded the Polar Music Prize in Sweden for their contribution to modern music.
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