Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd
18 October 2025

Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd

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Episode: Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd
Pub date: 2025-10-10

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Peter Jenner (Floyd’s first manager): “Syd’s behaviour was avant-garde and I thought avant-garde was good. Of course in hindsight, we should have taken a break, but none of us knew what we were doing and we had an album out.”







Nick Mason (Floyd’s drummer): “We wanted to be pop stars and Syd didn’t.”







David Gilmour (Floyd’s guitarist): “I heard Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and was sick with jealousy.”







Nick Mason: “Other bands seemed so professional.”







Bob Ezrin (Collaborator on The Wall): “Roger Waters was fun to write with. He was just difficult to live with.”







David Gilmour: “(Atom Heart Mother was)… possibly our lowest point artistically.”







Rick Wright (Floyd’s keyboards): “Rock bands live or die by whether there anyone who can write. You don’t rock the boat.”







Roger Waters (Floyd’s bassist): “David played that descending guitar part in ‘Dogs’, which is very important, great in fact. But apart from that…”







Nick Mason: “Roger’s great mistake… was to underestimate David’s determination and resolve.”







David Gilmour: “If we could get away without talking to the press, we would.”







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