The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd is the ultimate companion to the band that changed the sound and scale of pop music forever. Features include: The Story: from the Syd Barrett era, the Dark Side Of The Moon phenomenon to their transformation into one of the world’s biggest bands, The Music: 50 essential Floyd songs and the stories behind them, plus all the albums and recording sessions, side-projects and solo careers, Floyd On Film: the movies and film soundtracks fromThe Wall and More to Zabriskie Point and Pink Floyd at Pompeii, Floydology file: the cover versions, rarities, DVDs, books and websites. From the psychedelic “happenings” of 60s London to the arena gigs, world tours and Live 8 reunion – it’s all here.
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Toby Manning grew up in North Wales and Manchester, before regressing to adolescence in London. He has written for Q, NME, The New Statesman, Arena, The Guardian, Select and The Word and now also manages and produces the band The Idle Lovers.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor research and poor results,
By Renfield "Roving Gnome" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (Rough Guide Music Guides) (Paperback)
Sadly, this is just not worth reading. It may be nice to have to complete a collection. It is not as bad as the guide to the Velvet Underground but it is close. Just don't bother.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother; it's that simple.,
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (Rough Guide Music Guides) (Paperback)
I picked this up on the cheap a few weeks ago, and to say the least, I'd be infuriated to have paid full price.
It only takes one example to prove how absolute shoddy, sloppy, and downright careless this author is with his subject matter: "Waters, still touring DSOTM into 2008, managed just a cover of The Doors' 'Hello, I Love You' on _The Last Mimzy_ soundtrack." (this text refers to recent post-Live 8 activity). That's *straight* from the text, page 152 to be precise. Do yourselves a favor and avoid this tome. What looks like an actual good idea for a book, regarding how it's set up and divided among its chapters, flails and flounders about like a fish out of water, gasping for air and choking on its own not-so-hidden agenda. The author takes every opportunity to lob some of the nastiest and flat out *meanest* criticism I've ever read, and one can only think that somewhere along the line, he was advanced enough money to finance some kind of hatchet job. Harsh criticism and intelligent wit is one thing; snotty crassness, which this author delivers in spades, is something else altogether and comes from a very nasty place. Spend your cash on any (or all) the books penned by Nick Schaffner, Mark Blake, Andy Mabbett, and Glen Povey / Ian Russell. With the sheer wealth of fantastic writing available on the Floyd, especially from these sources, there's absolutely no clear reason why anyone should pay full price for this.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Rough Guide to PF - Meh,
By Joseph Morris "Joe Morris" (Elmwood Park, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (Rough Guide Music Guides) (Paperback)
Not much new here if you're a Floyd fan and you've read everything on the group
The new Blake bio on the group (called Comfortably Numb in the States) is a more worthwhile read. This really doesn't add much to what fans of the group already know
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