Author:Mike Cormack
There are already an awful lot of books around on Pink Floyd so the question is I suppose, is there anything new to say or any information that hasn’t already been unearthed and endlessly dissected? Well, the answer is probably not, but a book like this can be useful in collating material from disparate sources and rounding it all up in one handy volume, and of course there’s always room for another opinion on the music itself. The book begins with a detailed look at each album, song by song. The author makes some interesting points although as someone who already knows a lot about the band (sound of own trumpet being blown!), I didn’t learn anything new, and I found the practice of capitalising every song title mentioned in an article quite irritating to be honest. The second section of the book is a detailed chronology day by day of what the band was doing in terms of live shows and record releases, right from its inception. It ends with the release of the Hey Hey Rise Up single in 2022, although oddly the release of The Endless River is missing. Running alongside this is a list » Continue Reading.