Rock group. Founded by students Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright, and later joined by David Gilmour. They achieved international success with albums such as 'The Dark Side of The Moon' and 'The Wall'. They disbanded in 1994, but the surviving members reformed temporarily in 2012.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd Between 1962 - 1966, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright ...
Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence. Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer...
Building, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Religion, Theatre
Musician and songwriter. Part of the original line-up of the Small Faces group, writing or co-writing most of their hits. In 1968 he left the group, storming off stage during a disastrous live perf...
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Born Shrewsbury. Music historian. Father of Fanny Burney. In 1783 he was appointed organist at Chelsea College where he lived for the rest of his life, dying there in 1814.See Caroline's Miscel...
Composer. Born (we only have his baptism date) in Bonn (now Germany). His ninth, the Choral, symphony, Ode to Joy, was commissioned in 1822 by the Philharmonic Society of London and first performed...
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