1900
Pink Anderson Council, Carolina guitarist, died in 1974, known for "South
forest boogie" and his work with Blind Simmie Dooley.
1911
Floyd "Dipper boy" Council, Carolina guitarist, died in 1976,
known for travels through the Piedmont with Blind Boy Fuller in the 1930's.
09.09.63
Roger Waters born in ???????
28.07.45
Richard Wright born in ??????
04.01.46
Syd Barrett born in Cambridge.
06.03.46
David Gilmour born in Cambridge,
UK.
00.00.57
Barrett, Gilmour and Thorgerson at the High School in Cambridge.
00.00.58
Dead of Winifred
Barrett, Syd's father.
1960-64
Barrett and Gilmour at the Technical School, Cambridge.
00.00.65
Syd at the Camberwell Art School of
London.
27.03.66
The Floyd first met producers Andrew King and Peter
Jenner.
16.10.66
First interview with group, in The Sunday Times (Published October 30,
1966)
31.10.66
Blackhill Enterprise is set up. This marked the beginning of the Floyd's
professional career.
31.10.66
Floyd went to Thompson Private Recording Company in Hemel Hempstead, UK
to make test recordings.
"Let's Roll Another One" studio session. (3':30). The quality
of the recording was dreadful. (They also supposedly recorded "I Get Stoned",
"Interstellar Overdrive" and "Lucy Lee In Blue Tights").
30.01.67
Photo sessions and
rehearsal, London, UK.
06.02.67
"Jackie" photo
sessions, London.
07.02.67
"Fabulous" photo
sessions, London, UK.
13.02.67
Photo
session, London, UK.
01.04.67
EMI Launches the group with the press.
01.04.67
"Arnold
Layne" n. 41 on Melody Maker Top Chart.
08.04.67
"Arnold
Layne" n. 21 on Melody Maker Top Chart.
15.04.67
"Arnold
Layne" n. 22 on Melody Maker Top Chart.
22.04.67
"Arnold
Layne" n. 20 on Melody Maker Top Chart.
29.04.67
"Arnold
Layne" dropping out from the Melody Maker Top Chart.
April-August '67
Syd lives in Croydon Road,
London.
April-May '67
Gilmour:
"I actually come
back from France because we'd had all our michrophones stolen and I came back to
buy michrophones in London because you could buy second hand Shures in Lisle St.
for £7, and new they were £35 each in Paris. I came back to buy those and I
rang Syd up and spoke to him girlfriend and she said they were in a studio in
Chelsea, recording. So i droppen in on them, and they were recording "See Emily
play". Syd, who had been a friend of mine for years, just looked straight
through me, barely acknowledged that I was there very weird".
June '67
"See Emily
play" n. 1 in the Radio London "Big L" chart in the week
of his release.
08.07.67
"Emily" on Record Mirror chart until late August. Highest position n. 6
(in M.M. highest position was n. 5).
Summer '67
Syd Barrett
late July '67
Syd return in Cambridge. All August shows cancelled?
06.09.67
"The
piper" (for the 2nd week on charts) n. 9 on UK charts.
09.09.67
Press Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
02.10.67
Photo session, London, UK.
06.10.67
The UFO Club closes.
09.12.67
Interview with OZ magazine.
00.12.67
The band decides that Syd is becoming completely impossible to work with.
Over Christmas, they first approach David Gilmour to join the group.
Late '67
Peter Watts road manager of Pink Floyd.
00.00.67
Melody Maker Top Pool: Pink Floyd 4th place.
00.00.68
Peter Jenner (Blackhill Enterprises) applies, without luck, for a grant
from the "Arts Council of Great Britain". Evidently, the grant was to
pay for a movie with Pink Floyd, but more than likely the money was just to
raise funds for the debt-laen group.
00.01.68
Syd suggests expanding the group to a six-piece with the adition of a
banjo and a saxophonist.
27.01.68
David Gilmour joins Pink
Floyd.
02.03.68
Blackhill Enterprises is dissolved.
06.04.68
Syd Barrett's departure officially
announced.
Summer '68
Syd holydays in Ibiza.
15.07.68
Roger Waters is quoted as saying Pink Floyd is working on a "Rock
Circus" event, in which the Floyd would present their light and quad show
under a big top. This never happened, hpwever, because the tent people pulled
out.
00.09.68
Pink Floyd first met Barbret Schroeder during a TV appearance in Paris,
France.
04.12.68
Premiere of "Pawn to King 5", a ballet that featured the music
of Pink Floyd.
26.06.69
At this time, the Press reports that the Floyd were spending nearly all
their time writing music for Orchestra, which was to be played at a concert in
December. This might have been the early beginning of "Atom heart mother"?
08.10.69
Ron Geesin met Roger Waters for the first time. The first golf match on
4.11.69.
00.00.69
Syd stay at Thorgerson's house in South Kensington, and after removal at
Earl's Court Mans n. 25 with his friend Duggie Fields.
08.04.70
Pink Floyd is elected in France best rock group of the year in front of
Rolling Stones.
16.05.70
While Pink Floyd were in New Orleans, a truck of all of their equipment -
valued at approximately $ 40.000 - was stolen. The police were apparently
disinterested in helping the group find the truck. However, the group found help
through the staff of the Royal Orleans Hotel, were the group had been staying.
An acquaintance of the staff, who the group described as an "FBI Geezer", was
brought in to help find the truck. The group also placed radio and TV spots
offering rewards for the return of the truck. The truck was soon found abandoned
with three guitar missing.
Summer '70
Ron Geesin work on
"Atom heart mother". Orchestral parts written at
Ladbroke Groove Studios.
30.08.70
David Gilmour watching the
Isle of Wight Festival.
10.10.70
The album cover picture of
"Atom heart mother" was taken in Essex, in a
field across from a pub.
10.10.70
Pink Floyd are in holyday in Saint Tropez, France. Creation of
"San Tropez" for "Meddle".
11.12.70
Paris Pullman de Drayton Gardens, Paris, France.
"Tonite let's all make love in
London" presented like a movie about
Rolling Stones!!!
00.00.70
The Floyd worked on the music for a cartoon project titled
"Rollo". It was to have been a series of seventeen half-hour shows to
be shown on USA TV. A pilot was made and then the project was abandoned. The
cartoon, however, was said to have been spectacular. The artwork for the project
was to have been done by Alan Aldridge.
00.00.70
Syd return in Cambridge.
00.04.71
Nascono i figli di Mason e
Wright.
17.10.71
Special quadraphonic presentation of "Echoes" at the
Roundhouse, London, UK. (This was presented by EMI; the band was still on tour
in the USA.
00.12.71
The beginnig of December spent in rehearsal.
00.12.71
The group spent the rest of December writing and rehearsing
"Eclipsed". (Roger says 5-6 weeks were spent on the new LP)
00.00.71
The dog on
"Seamus" is Wright Levrier Barzo•.
00.00.72
Ricky Hopper sends demo recordings of Kate Bush to David Gilmour for a
listen. Gilmour is interested and is looking for new talent to promote. He
latest produces recording sessions which lead to securing Kate a recording
contract with EMI.
11.01.72
"Football Mayehem". P.F.F.C. XI beats Family, at Caledonian
Park, Norther London, UK. (The Pink Floyd Football Club (P.F.F.C.) is all of the
Floyd and friends and even cheerleaders)
Braving the monsoon rains to support the boys, the cheerleaders sang,
"We got the shit, we got the dope, but Family's team ain't got a hope"
(Football is the group's passion; Roger's original title for Echoes was "We
won the double")
00.03.72
Interview with Syd in Melody Maker (Uk magazine)
00.10.72
"The dark side of the
moon" album by Medicine Head published. (France.
Polydor. 2.310.166)
25.11.72
Special preview screening of "Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii" at
the Rainbow Theatre was banned by the Rank Organization. Banned by The Rank
Organization from being show at the Rainbow in November, for the reason that the
Rainbow's lease (it was an ex-cinema) forbade its competing with Rank Cinemas,
none of which had evinced any interest in showing the movie.
00.00.72
"The dark side of the
moon" album by Jo' Burg Hawk published. (France.
Phonogram. 6369-928)
27.02.73
The London Planetarium, Marylebone Road,
London, UK.
17.04.73
R.I.A.A. Gold Disc Award for "Dark Side Of The Moon". (The only
USA award it is given)
28.04.73
"Dark Side Of The Moon" goes #1 in USA! The band's first of
many #1 records. On UK charts for 32 weeks.
23.08.73
"More" re-issued. USa and UK.
00.08.73
Kate Bush demo sessions at David Gilmour's farm (Central UK).
25.06.74
University Paris Campus, Paris, France. Pink Floyd F.C. XI versus journalists in soccer match.
00.06.74
Gilmour, Mason, Wright and O'Rourke at the French EMI for
"Dark side"
platinum disc (500.000 copies sold in France at this time).
23.09.74
Filming in London, UK through October 18.
30.11.74
Pink Floyd spent the afternoon watching football.
00.11.74
Syd Barrett was in the studio for two or three days to record songs for a
third album.
14.12.74
Pink Floyd spent the afternoon watching football (Bristol-Nottingham
Forest 1:0)
00.00.74
British Winter Tour '74. $ 100.000 investment for the tour. Waters, Mason
and Artur Max, the sound engineer visual material work at Elstree in 1974.
00.00.74
"Dark
side" n. 1 at N.M.E. Readers Pool 1974 (British/World section);
M.M. Readers Pop Pool 1973 (British/International section) and Top Albums 1973;
Disc and Music Echo Top Albums 1973.
00.00.75
Roger Waters writes the song "How Do You Feel" in response to
the French GINI incident (GINI gave £50.000 to photograph the Floyd
"floating" and say "I drink GINI". This cause a multitude of
problems for the Floyd in France, and some French magazines claimed it alienated
the fans)
Spring '75
"Shamal" byGong released, produced by Nick Mason.
00.06.75
Kate Bush demo sessions, Air
Studios, London, UK.
00.00.75
Derek Meddings work with Pink Floyd. Worked with Floyd again in 19843,
concepting the "stab-in-the-back" dagger on the sleeve of "The final cut".
01.04.76
Dave Gilmour's house is broken into and his guitar are stolen.
02.08.76
Peter Watts, former road manager of the Floyd, is found dead in his
apartment from a heroin overdose.
02.12.76
Photographers meet at Battersea Power Station, London, UK, in the early
morning to photograph the pig for the "Animals" album cover. They
didn't have enough helium for liftoff so the photographers had to come back on
December 3rd.
03.12.76
Guideline breaks and pig soars to a height of well over 20.000 feet
before landing in a farmer field of James Stewart in Chilham, Kent, UK.
From '76-'81
Syd live at
"Park Hotel Hilton", London.
00.00.76
Rumors about a Pink Floyd soundtrack for a
"Dune" movie by Jodorowski.
19.01.77
"Animals" is played for the press at Battersea Power Station,
London, UK. Few people heard it over the noise of the party.
00.01.77
Gilmour, Mason and Wright visit the German EMI during the
"Animals"
german shows.
00.02.77
Paris,
"Pink Floyd Party" with band members.
16.04.77
"Animals" LP goes Platinum in the USA! (This means the album
has sold 1.000.000 copies)
28.08.77
Flight reported between Rick Wright and Chief of Police of Lindos
(Greece) a small island the Floyd use as a resort.
00.00.77
World tour. Waters wore headphones all the time, so he could hear the
"click track" on the soundtrack of the film, allowing the band to play in sync with
the projected image.
00.01.78
Nick Mason produced the Damned's "Music For Pleasure" at Pink
Floyd's own Britannia Row Studios, London, UK.
00.01.78
David Gilmour working on his first solo album at the Super Bear Studios,
Miravel, France.
00.01.78
Roger Waters formulates his overall concept of "The Wall" and
begins preparing demo tapes.
10.01.78
Rick Wright began work on his first solo album, using the same studio as
Gilmour, the Super Bear Studios in France.
14.02.78
Rick finishes his "Wet Dream" LP.
25.05.78
Hotel Prince de Galles, Paris, France.
03.10.78
John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Paul McCartney, Pete Twonshend, David
Gilmour and Hank Marvin partecipate in a session for Wings "Back To The
Eggs" LP at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.
00.11.78
Work begins on "The Wall", using Roger's (already recorded)
demos. Massive changes would be made before the album would be in its final
form.
00.11.78
New Pink Floyd LP announced by EMi as "Walls". The horrified
group and EMKA hurriedly deny this.
00.11.78
Steve O'Rourke announces that by the end of 1979, Floyd will have a
5000-seater travelling concert hall-a canvas tent. This never came to be.
00.00.78
Gilmour accepting
"WYWH" gold LP in Greece.
00.00.78
Pink Floyd P.A. for the Anti-Fascist Festival with Clash, Tom Robinson
and others.
00.00.79
David Gilmour mixes the "Kerb Crawler" LP for Hawkind.
31.03.79
David Gilmour in London producing a Phil May (ex-Pretty Things) album.
00.04.79
Studio work begins on "The Wall". Recording too place from
April to November '79. (3 studios)
01.06.79
Floyd's new album was handed over to EMI. Work continued on it until
November. At this time no one was sure whether it would be a doube or a triple
album. Even after inner bags were printed, parts were cuts of time restrictions.
12.12.79
"Nick Mason's Fictitious sports" completed.
17.01.80
The Floyd sign a long-term world-wide co-publishing and administration
agreement with Chappel International music publisher. This was thought to be
most expensive deal ever made.
19.01.80
"The Wall" LP goes #1 in the USA!
24.01.80
The Floyd pay for a vanity billboard to be erected on Sunset Strip in
Hollywood, California, USA. It was white at first but workers removed a few
bricks each day to reveal a Gerald Scarfe illustration beneath.
00.01.80
(January through February) Radio stations in the USA: Cleveland, Chicago,
Philadelphia, San Diego, and other battled to see who could give away the most
tickets to the upcoming Wall concerts.
15.03.80
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" reaches the #1 position on
the USA charts.
22.03.80
"Dark Side of the Moon" overtakes Carole King's
"Tapestry" for the longest run of a contemporary album in the American
charts. (On 15/3/80 "Dark Side of the Moon" tied Carole King's album
at 302 weeks total on the chart).
22.03.80
"The Wall" LP goes Platinum in the USA. (The group's second
Platinum album. By this date the album had sold over a million copies).
29.03.80
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" goes Gold in USA. (This
means it sold a million copies of the 45!)
15.04.80
The Floyd return to England. Pink Floyd were tax exiles, being unable to
pay their 83% of earning to H.M. in land revenue because of the Norton Wardburg
crash, so until they could return in England. They lived at the Tropicana Motor
Hotel on Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.
06.05.80
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" 45 was banned by the South
African government after school kids took to singing it in protest of their
school system. The Nazi's rounded up all of the 45's and LP's by Pink Floyd that
they could find in the stores and homes and burnt the vinyl.
00.00.80
Syd shock treatment.
00.00.80
Pink Floyd british concerts were planned for Milton Keynes Open Air Arena
but then shifted to Earl's Court.
00.03.81
Pink Floyd sues Norton Warburg for £1,000,000, charging fraud and
negligence. The Norton Warburg group invested nearly £3,300,000 of the group's
money in such things as the Britannia Row studio complex, a skateboard
manufacturer, a seafood processing company, and a chutney maker while acting as
Pink Floyd's agents. Andrew Warburg, meanwhile, fled to Spain.
08.05.81
Original script for "The Wall" movie completed.
07.09.81
Shooting began for "The Wall" film, at Pinewood Studios,
London, UK. (By Tin Blue, Ltd. in association with Goldcrest Films). The
original idea of "The wall" movie had been to use a Floyd concert as a
unifying factor, and accordingly Earl's court was booked for a re-run of the "Wall"
shows for 5 dates in June 1981, but the shooting was a total disaster.
00.00.81?
"Laser Floyd (The all new laser light show, feat. computer laser
animation choreographed to the music of Pink Floyd)Ó" at Fernbank Science
Center, Atlanta, USA.
Songs: Welcome to the machine, Run like hell, Hey you, Is there anybody
out there?, Echoes, Grandchester meadows, Speak to me, Breathe, Comfortably
numb, On the run, Money, The happiest days of our lives, Another brick in the
wall part 2, Goodbye cruel world, Brain damage, Eclipse.
20.03.83
Waters collect a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for
"Best song from a film" for "Another brick in the wall part 2" in London.
23.03.83
Press presentation at Madison Square Garden, New York, USA. (44:00)
(Original version LP played on tape)
16.04.83
Nick Mason enters Vintage Sports Car Club's Hala Trophy at Silverstone,
UK driving his 250F Maserati.
29.10.83
"Dark Side of the Moon" overtakes Johnny Mathis' "Greatest
Hits" as America's longest running charted LP of all time!!! The LP is at
491 weeks in the USA Top 200 charts.
00.11.83
Possible date for Pink Floyd concerts, later withdrawn.
00.00.83
Pink Floyd might have done one gig for a TV simulcast.
00.00.84
Waters tour:
"Brain damage/Eclipse" with footage of Edward Hearth et.
al.
00.00.84
David Gilmour writes the song "Hope" with a little assistance
from Pete Townshend.
29.09.84
Nick Mason opens a camera show at the Martlet's Hall, Burgess Hill,
Sussex, UK.
00.12.84
David Gilmour on Kate Bush promotional message for Japan. (6:00)
10.12.84
"The Rock Chronicles" Pink Floyd documentary with interviews
with Gilmour and Waters, USA radio special (14:00)
1984-85
Mason at Parma, Italy for annual veteran cars meeting.
00.00.84
Barrett leave Chelsea, London and return in Cambridge.
02.09.85
Nick Mason began a promotional tour in the UK, to plug
"Profiles", untile 6/9/85.
00.00.85
Mason at
"London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.
00.00.86
Roger Waters begin work on "When the Wind Blows" movie
soundtrack and "Radio K.A.O.S." LP.
00.09.86
Work begins on "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", using Dave
Gilmour's demos, some of which dated back to 1977.
31.10.86
Roger Waters files suit against David Gilmour and Nick Mason to prevent
them from using the name "Pink Floyd".
00.00.86
Mason at
"London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.
06.04.87
Roger Waters released a press announcment saying that he will never again
record with the other members of Pink Floyd.
Mid '87
Rick Wright rejoins the floyd unoficcially because possible litigation
against him prevents him from officially declaring membership.
29.07.87
Returning from Spain, Andrew Warburg was jailed for three years for
fraudulent trading and false accounting between October 1978 and March 1981.
Pink Floyd was among those that sued him.
00.10.87
Roger Waters announces that he will spend the month at Compass Point, in
the Bahamas, recording a new album.
The album's working (and possibly final) title is "Amused To
Death". The cover may possibly feature a drawing by Gerald Scarfe of three
people floating in a champagne glass.
28.11.87
Pink Floyd, "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" LP goes Platinum in
the USA!
Early '88
Michael Jackson approaches the Floyd and other bands, to contribue a
Beatle cover song for the forthcoming film, "Strawberry Fields".
28.01.88
European tour press presentation in London, Uk with a inflatable bed and
30.000 pink balloons. The balloons
were also launched simultaneously in the UK in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester,
Newcastle, and Cardiff. (Find a "Pink Balloon" and get a free ticket
to a Uk show!)
00.01.88
Pig flying over the Sydney Opera House, Australia, after which it broke
loose.
27.03.88
Member(s) of Floyd take part in a celebrity Banger Racing evening at
Wimbledon Stadium, London, UK in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Theraphy
Centre.
30.04.88
"Dark Side Of The Moon" finally frops out the USA album charts,
after 724 weeks on the Top 200!!
00.05.88
Barrett patient in a Cambridge mental hospidal.
14.11.88
Pink Floyd, "TASS News", Moskva, USSR.
00.00.88
Mason at
"London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.
00.00.88
Waters ask £35.000 to Pink Floyd for the unhautorized use of the flying
pig during their shows.
19.03.89
Gilmour, Mason and O'Rourke attended the Demolition Derby at Wimbledon
Stadium (Charity fundraise for the Nordoff-Robins Music Therapy Centre, London)
00.05.89
Moscow, Pink Floyd press conference.
31.05.89
"First International Rock Awards" New York City, USA.
00.07.89
Pink Floyd press conference in Venezia, Italy.
11.10.89
David Palmer's Pink Floyd project debuts at the Barbican, London, UK.
(Entitled, "Leave Those Kids Alone"!!)
05.11.89
Mason at
"London to Brighton" annual veterans car run (from Hyde Park,
London to Maidera Drive, Brighton).
00.12.89
"Object of Fantasy: The
Music of Pink Floyd" LP released, by David Palmer and the Royal Philarmonic
Orchestra (RCA Records). UK release only, so far.
28.12.89
Gilmour, Jon Lord and others hold
a charity show to raise money for some "spiritualist lady"?! Someplace
in London, UK. (Rumors of an Lp, too??)
21.09.90
"The
Wall" action at Christies.
27.11.90
Waters work on a production at
the Bastille Opera in Paris, confirmed by Etienne Roda, a co-writer of the
project in an interview on A2. 21.09.92 the date of the broadcast for the
occasion of the Federation Day.
00.00.90
Waters, regional secretary of the
"Country Landowners Association".
Tour Information.
We do have a few of the
attendance figures and revenues These are taken from various Billboard
magazines.
They are as follows:
15.06.77
Milwaukee
60.000 tickets sold and $540.000
made.
19.06.77
Chicago
67.000 tickets sold and $670.000
made.
21.06.77
Kansas City
12.115
tickets sold and $120.000 made.
23.06.77
Cincinnati
14.500 tickets sold and $127.425
made.
25.06.77
Cleveland
81.320 audience (records for a
rock show in USA)
09.09.87
Ottawa
26.062 tickets sold (not a
sellout) and $640.000 made.
12-14.09.87
42.912 audience.
16-17.09.87 Cleveland
A two day total of 128.364
tickets ans $ 2.567.280!
19.09.87
Philadelphia
80.254 tickets ans $ 1.615.080.
21-23.09.87 Toronto
A three day total of 146.660
tickets ans $ 2.825.860 (This was Billboard Magazine #1 Box Office receipts for
1987)
25-28.09.87
54.400 audience.
30.09.87
Milwaukee
58.044 tickets and $ 1.160.800.
03.10.87
Syracuse
34.356 tickets and $ 687.120.
5-7.10.87
New York City
A three day total of 50.571
tickets and $ 1.100.500.
10-12.10.87 E.
Rutherford
A three day total of 51.923
tickets ans $ 1.049.445.
16-17.10.87 Providence
A two day total of 23.860 tickets
ans $ 536.850.
19-22.10.87 Landover
A four day total of 54.505
tickets and $ 1.216.800.
25-26.10.87 Chapel
Hill
A two day total of 28.636 tickets
and $ 529.766.
30.10.87
55.107 audience.
01.11.87
55.000 audience.
3-5.11.87
Atlanta
A three day total of 41.429
tickets and $ 822.823.
7-8.11.87
Lexington
A two day total of 31.175 tickets
and$ 576.738.
10.11.87
Pontiac
46.192 tickets and $ 923.840.
12.11.87
Indianapolis
41.782 tickets and $ 835.640.
15-16.11.87 St.
Louis
A two day total of 27.954 tickets
ans $ 489.675.
18.11.87
Houston
37.956 tickets and $ 734.760.
19-20.11.87 Austin
A two day total of 26.966 tickets
and $ 548.460.
21-23.11.87 Dallas
A three day total of 54.204
tickets and $ 895.543.
Roger Waters sales:
14.09.87
Austin
5.275 tickets and $ 77.364.
17.09.87
Phoenix
8.344 tickets (out of a max of 12.195) and $ 137.676.
04.11.87
E. Rutherford
13.517 tickets and $ 233.334.
10.11.87
Hamilton
8.768 tickets (out of 10.800 max) and $ 121.826.