1. It was named after two of Syd Barrett's favourite blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. It wasn't the only name, for before that they also used Jokers Wild, The Abdads, The Tea Set and, for a while, The Pink Floyd Sound. 2. The Dark Side of the Moon, released in 1973, is still one of the best-selling albums of all times, having sold tens of millions copies and spending more than 800 weeks on the Billboard charts, an achievement that is next to impossible to equal.
3. Pink Floyd had the opportunity to contribute to the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange, the controversial movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, as he wanted to use Atom Heart Mothers Suite. Unfortunatelly, Gilmour declined, a decision he would end up regretting.
4. Pink Floyd recorded at the famous Abbey Road studios at the same time as The Beatles, a chance meeting of two legendary musical outfits. While Gilmour and the gang were laying down the tracks for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Fab Four were working at Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. One cannot help but wonder how the two could have collaborated at the time.
5. Delicate Sound of Thunder, the live album released in 1988, after the departing and conflicts with Roger Waters, holds the distinction of being the first rock LP heard in space. A copy of the recording was brought in 1989 by a group of Russian astronauts aboard the MIR space station.
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