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Dezider Hoffman is born in Banska Stiavnica, Hungary (now Slovakia), Europe. He will find international success as photographer Dezo Hoffman, shooting acclaimed sessions with artists as diverse as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Kinks, The Shadows, Tom Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Omar Sharif and Pink Floyd.
Watford Gap, the first of Britain's motorway service stations opens. The station's restaurant, The Blue Boar, will prove conveniently located as a stop-off for rock bands travelling back to London after gigs in the north of the country, so it will be visited in the early hours of the morning by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, The Soft Machine and many others. In 1977, on his album Bullinamingvase, Roy Harper will include a song called Watford Gap with the chorus, 'Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of c**p'.
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Blues-rock band The Spectrum Five play the second of two nights at Beat City, Oxford Street, London, UK. Their line-up includes Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, who will all find greater fame as members of Pink Floyd.
Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at The Dorothy Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Les Jeux Interdits, The Victoria Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Les Jeux Interdits, The Victoria Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.Pink Floyd, Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds, Paul Jones, The Alan Price Set, Peter And Gordon and Jackie Trent perform live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, in 'You're Joking' a fund-raising concert for Oxfam, which also features comedy acts such as Peter Cook And Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron and The Alberts.
Pink Floyd have an Abbey Road Studios, London, UK, recording session, working on Lucifer Sam and The Bike Song.
New guitarist Dave Gilmour plays his first gig with Pink Floyd at Aston University, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
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The Who play at The Valentine Ball, Essex University, Colchester, England, UK, Europe. (Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd is said to have attended this gig, but it seems unlikely given that Pink Floyd were playing 260 miles away in Nelson, Lancashire on the same night.)
Pink Floyd have a recording session in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, working on Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, See Saw and Let There Be More Light.
Pink Floyd play at The Midsummer Ball, University College, London, England, UK, Europe.Pink Floyd, Blue Cheer and The Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart on vocals) play the first of two nights at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
It is reported that Pink Floyd are making a 3,377 mile flight from London, England, UK, Europe, to Detroit, Michigan, USA, to attend a Science Fiction and Voodoo Festival, returning the next day to the UK for a gig at Manchester University. The report is later denied by members of the group.
Pink Floyd play at The Great Hall, Imperial College, London, England, UK, Europe.Pink Floyd, Stoneground, The Faces, Mott The Hoople, Edgar Broughton, Formerly Fat Harry, Caravan, Silver Meter , Daddy Longlegs, General Waste-more-land, The Hog Farm and DJ Jeff Dexter take part in the final show of The Medicine Ball Caravan, at Charlton Park, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, Kent, UK.
David Bowie, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Terry Reid, Daevid Allen And Gong play at Glastonbury Fayre, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK.
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Pink Floyd spend the first of twelve days working on the music that will become the album Dark Side Of The Moon, in a rehearsal room in Decca Studios, Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, London, UK.Pink Floyd spend the second of three days rehearsing a new suite of music which will become their album Dark Side Of The Moon, at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
During a North American tour, Pink Floyd play at Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Pink Floyd are rehearsing in London, UK, in preparation for further recording of the album Dark Side Of The Moon.
Pink Floyd resume work in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, on their album Dark Side Of The Moon.
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Pink Floyd play the last of five nights at the Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California. Over the five days of show, 511 dope smokers have been arrested by over-zealous LAPD officers.
During their The Wall tour, Pink Floyd play at The Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, USA. Pink Floyd play the first of eight nights performing The Wall at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, West Germany, Europe.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd's About Face tour opens at The National Stadium, Dublin, Eire, Europe.On his About Face tour, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd plays at Tivoli Hall, Strasbourg, France, Europe.David Gilmour, best-known as the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd, plays at The UIC Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters begins his Pros And Cons tour at The Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar.
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Russian cosmonauts take a cassette of the latest Pink Floyd album, Delicate Sound Of Thunder, aboard Soyuz 7 and play it in orbit, making Pink Floyd the first rock band to be played in space. Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason attend the launch of the spacecraft.
When Andy Fairweather-Low plays at The Half Moon pub in London, England, UK, Europe, the audience includes former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters.
The video The Wall – Live In Berlin by Roger Waters is certified as a platinum video by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Pink Floyd guitarist/singer David Gilmour marries journalist Polly Samson at Marylebone Registry Office, London, England, UK. The reception is held in Twickenham.Sir Paul McCartney marries his girlfriend Heather Mills, in St Salvator's Church, Castle Leslie, Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland. The 300 guests include Ringo Starr, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Twiggy, Sir George Martin, Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
The 2006 Induction Ceremony for the UK Music Hall Of Fame, which took place at Alexandra Palace, London, UK, two days earlier is transmitted on tv in the USA by VH1. Inductees are James Brown (inducted by Jazzie B) performs 'I Got You (I Feel Good)' Led Zeppelin [inducted by Roger Taylor of Queen], Wolfmother perform Communication Breakdown as a tribute; Rod Stewart (inducted by James Morrison) performs The First Cut Is the Deepest and Do Ya Think I'm Sexy; Brian Wilson (inducted by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd) performs God Only Knows and Good Vibrations; Bon Jovi (inducted by David A. Stewart and Kara Dioguardi) performs Livin' on a Prayer, Wanted Dead Or Alive and It's My Life; Prince (inducted by Beyonce Knowles) and Dusty Springfield (inducted by Joss Stone who performs Son of a Preacher Man). The occasion proves to be the last televised performance by James Brown.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the third of four nights at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the second of nine nights at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at the Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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McCartney, the surviving members of Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Bon Jovi, Kanye West and others play in the Hurricane Sandy Benefit at Madison Square Garden, New York
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Via a Twitter posting, singer-songwriter Ben Watt announces that Dave Gilmour, guitarist of Pink Floyd, will be playing on three songs at his upcoming show (May 19) at Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK.
Take That's first release as a three piece, entitled III, becomes the most pre-ordered album of all time on Amazon.co.uk overtaking Pink Floyd, One Direction, Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle.1912 |
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