[2020-03-17] Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here: Inside Pink Floyd's Musical Milestone" softcover by Will Romano (Backbeat)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:48 pm

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The mid-’70s were a time of reckoning. It was also an era of paradoxes, of record making and record breaking, of sold-out shows, and, in the minds of some, sell-out artists. Critics, who once exalted the shamanic characteristics of rock stars, launched full-frontal assaults on mainstream music icons and their tendencies toward overindulgent artistic visions. Amid this confusion, psychedelic and progressive rock pioneers Pink Floyd, unlikely messengers in uncertain times, unleashed their 1975 progressive rock milestone, Wish You Were Here.

Refusing to buckle under pressure, Floyd looked inward to produce Wish You Were Here, a conceptual, self-referential album that spoke of spiritual depravation, mental absence, and industry corruption, while, perhaps inadvertently, reflecting the general madness and societal malaise of the mid-’70s. Created in the spirit of camaraderie, Wish You Were Here waged war against the system, better known in Floydlandia as “The Machine,” while paying tribute to a fallen hero and victim of the industry – the creative force fundamental to the band's existence, Syd Barrett.

As our world was racked by unsustainable overseas military conflicts, governmental scandals, political assassination attempts, and a near-total erosion of the public trust, Pink Floyd emerged victorious, responding to this external dissonance with their ultimate band statement. What a strange, complex moment in time to have generated a classic. After 1975, Pink Floyd would never be the same – and neither would we.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617136840/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:25 pm

Update: Pushed back to March 1, 2020.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

Thank you Linda. I've been looking forward to this.

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:49 pm

Another delay, but only slight -- the book is now due out on March 17th.

[2020-03-17] Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here: Inside Pink Floyd's Musical Milestone" softcover by Will Romano (Backbeat)

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