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Pink Floyd (formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England) is a British progressive rock band, noted for their progressive compositions, thoughtful lyrics, sonic experimentation, album art and live shows. Pink Floyd is one of rock's most successful acts, having sold 73.5 million albums in the US alone. The group is also believed to have sold an estimated 175 to 200 million albums worldwide.
Pink Floyd enjoyed moderate success in the late-1960s as a psychedelic band led by Syd Barrett. After Barrett's erratic behavior caused his colleagues to add guitarist David Gilmour (who eventually replaced Barrett), the band went on to record several elaborate concept albums, achieving worldwide success with 1973's Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling and most enduringly popular albums in rock history.
In 1985, bassist Roger Waters declared Pink Floyd defunct, but the remaining band members recorded and twice toured under the Pink Floyd name without him, the most recent tour ending in October 1994. Waters rejoined the band at the London Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005, playing to Pink Floyd's biggest audience ever.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd
Given the band's enduring popularity, many aspiring guitarists have been trying to learn Pink Floyd songs for years. While the band rarely releases singles and has few hit-songs
to their name, guitar magazines frequently publish transcriptions
to their most popular songs. What you won't find, however,
is a decent book about Pink Floyd's acoustic songs. Perhaps you've seen the tablature for Wish
You Were Here, but there are many more Floyd songs that sound great on the acoustic guitar. Some of them weren't even written with the acoustic in mind.
This lesson is the first serious look at the unplugged side of
Pink Floyd. With these lessons you will be able to show off
to your friends in no time. Not everyone will be able to look and
sound like David Gilmour wailing through the final guitar solo of
Comfortably Numb. But if you've got six strings
and are willing to try, you can play most, if not all of the songs
in this lesson. No special skills are needed. You only need
a guitar, a knowledge of the basics, and a bit of determination.
Also, a love of Pink Floyd will help a lot too.
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