Pink Floyd: A Complete History – From The Tea Set To The Sony Sale – Book

From a Cambridge bedroom to the stadiums of the world, Pink Floyd built one of the strangest and most enduring bodies of work in the history of popular music.
They began as a psychedelic house band in the basements of late-1960s London, led by a brilliant and fragile young songwriter who would not survive the fame he helped create. What came after his departure — the long reinvention, the slow-building ambition, the albums that sold in the tens of millions — is one of rock’s most unlikely second acts.
Pink Floyd: A Complete History tells the whole story: the Cambridge childhoods and architecture studios where the band first took shape; the UFO Club and the underground years; the making of The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall; the bitter lawsuit that tore the partnership apart; and the decades of solo work, reunions, recriminations, and legacy-building that followed. It covers the sale of the catalogue to Sony in 2024, David Gilmour still recording in his eighties, Roger Waters still courting controversy, and Nick Mason still playing the early Floyd repertoire to audiences who were not yet born when the music was made.
Drawn from the full range of biographical sources and the band members’ own accounts, this is the most complete single-volume history of Pink Floyd yet written — a portrait of four musicians who, together and apart, changed what popular music was allowed to be.