Pink Floyd

Out Now Pink Floyd 50th anniversary edition of their era-defining album Wish You Were Here! On Deluxe Box Set, CD, Digital, Vinyl & For The First Time In Dolby Atmos, including Six Previously Unreleased Alternate Versions & Demos. Out now: pinkfloyd.lnk.to/WYWH50_Listen Also released today, the previously unheard ‘Wish You Were Here' (Pedal Steel Instrumental Mix), watch the new visualiser here: PinkFloyd.lnk.to/WYWH_PedalStee… #PFWYWH50

From 1967...

Another Tuesday Teaser for you: which early Pink Floyd song went under the working title of Sunshine? Who played on it?

On this day in 1973, Pink Floyd's then new album The Dark Side Of The Moon arrived in UK stores. When did you first buy it, or hear it? Here's an early advert for the album:

An advert for a number of Pink Floyd gigs in the USA, in March 1973 - although the poster shows nine shows, a total of fourteen were played that month in the US, and two in Canada. The band were back for more US shows in June that year.

A poster for the string of German gigs in 1970, featuring a negative of a picture from the well-known Kew Gardens photo session, used for Pink Floyd's gigs there, with the date and venue in the field at the bottom. Blanks were sold to fans.

Pink Floyd performed eight songs in this 1970 show - but do you know which, and in what order?

On the day that Pink Floyd released their first single, Arnold Layne, they performed at UFO that evening...

Today in 1967, Pink Floyd released their debut single, Arnold Layne, which had Candy And A Currant Bun on the B-side. The latter was a rewritten Let's Roll Another One, amended due to the obvious drug references. Here's the promo film, shot at West Wittering beach in the south of England: youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpI…

Please join us in wishing David Gilmour a wonderful 80th birthday. Today also marks the 20th anniversary of his album On An Island, which spent 19 weeks on the UK charts, hitting the number one spot. Have a great day, David! Photo: Anton Corbijn

Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in 1973:

On this day in 1967, the press were invited to see and hear a new band - The Pink Floyd - with the enticement of cocktails. Which cocktails do you think would have been suitable to be served at this event?

Happy birthday, Snowy White! Snowy went on the road with the Floyd for the first time, for the In The Flesh tour of 1977, and also contributed a guitar solo for the 8-track edition of Animals, bridging both parts of Pigs On The Wing. Here's Snowy with David Gilmour standing behind him.

Today in 1988, Pink Floyd kicked off a string of dates in Japan, and this advert shows a glimpse of the staging they were using:

US fans of Pink Floyd were fortunate on this day in 1973 when they could get their hands on The Dark Side Of The Moon as it appeared in stores in that country some two weeks before the UK. It has enjoying enduring success and is close to hitting 1000 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. Back in 2009, the UK's Sky Arts set up this eye-catching installation in a London park...

Today we mark the birthday of the sadly missed Storm Thorgerson, who - along with his colleagues at Hipgnosis and Storm Studios - designed much of Pink Floyd's artwork and imagery from 1968's A Saucerful Of Secrets onwards. Here's an interview with Storm, explaining what the different images used for Wish You Were Here meant: youtu.be/cBAtijk6X20

Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII: Now Available in 4k Ultra HD on Blu-Ray. The worldwide theatrical release in Spring 2025 received widespread acclaim, described as a "mesmerically peculiar portrait of a band on cusp of greatness" by The Guardian, and “required viewing for every aspiring young musician" by The Telegraph. ​This groundbreaking 1972 film has been digitally re-mastered, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson. Out Now Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII ON 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY: PinkFloyd.lnk.to/Pompeii_4kUHD #PinkFloydPompeii

Pink Floyd in Hamburg on this day in 1971 (photographer unknown):

Another Tuesday Teaser for you - what was Dave's Scat Section a working title for?