The 'lost' Pink Floyd album was called "The Massed Gadgets of Auximenies".
The longest performance of "The Dark Side of the Moon" lasted almost sixty-five minutes, whereas the shortest lasted less than forty.
In Nick Mason's composition 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party', Nick plays all the instruments, except for the flute, which was played by wife Lindy Mason.
Pink Floyd's original guitarist Bob Klose left the band to become a photographer.
1975's "Wish You Were Here" is the tribute to Syd Barrett, from the remainder of Pink Floyd.
At one point, the band was called Tea Set, and were performing with another band also called Tea Set. Syd Barrett's solution was to change the band's name to The Pink Floyd Sound, after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. They later turned into simply Pink Floyd.
In July 1977, in the city of Montreal, Roger Waters shockingly spat in a fan's face.
Roger Waters dedicated "The Final Cut" to his father, Eric Flecher Waters.
"Dark Side of the Moon" holds the all-time record for time spent on the Billboard chart, for 741 weeks, of roughly fourteen years.
The name for 1970 album "Atom Heart Mother" was found by Nick Mason in the newspaper as a headline. The story told of a young mother of two, who had just had an atomic heart implanted.
Prior to Pink Floyd, both Syd Barrett and his replacement David Gilmour played together for years in a band called Jokers Wild.
Sir Bob Geldof played the title role in the 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall. Bob had no script and made up a lot of it during filming.
Alan Parsons won a Grammy Award for his production work on 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon".
The name for album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" was taken from Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind In The Willow, as it is the title of Chapter 7. The chapter deals with meeting the forest god Pan, a part-man part-goat. Aside from the title, the Pink Floyd album does not reflect the novel.
After one gig in New Orleans, a thief stole all of Pink Floyd's equipment in a tractor/trailer. Included was Richard Wright's organ with stacks of effects boxes, a personal assembly. Instead of trying to find all the components again, Richard decided to use conventional components.
Early in 1967, while Pink Floyd were recording "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" at EMI Abbey Road, The Beatles were recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" several doors down. The Beatles would come over on break and listen to Pink Floyd's sessions.
Syd Barrett's real name is Roger Keith Barett. He was nicknamed 'Syd' at 15, as a reference to a local drummer named Sid Barrett.
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