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    <body><![CDATA[Classic rock story, four guys hang out, one goes crazy, the rest replace the crazy dude. New dude has a great voice, after a few odd sounding LP's that did well in the UK, band hits pay-dirt in the U.S.A. BAM! Bass player gets moody, bass player goes away, two more LP's, world tours. Band gets back ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69120995">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In July 2005 in Hyde Park, before a global audience of millions, Pink Floyd performed together on stage for the first time in 24 years. From the moment the metronomic pulse of a heartbeat thudded out to begin &quot;Speak to Me&quot; to the soaring guitar solo that climaxed &quot;Comfortably Numb,&quot; these self-effacing men in their late fifties stole the show. Almost a year later, the death of their troubled founder-member Syd Barrett made headline news worldwide. Both events signaled a kind of closure to the remarkable tale of one of the world's biggest bands.<br/><br/>Now, in the first full-length history of the group for more than fifteen years, Mark Blake tells the story of how a group of middle-class Englishmen conquered the world. Drawing on his own interviews with all of the band members, interviews with the group's friends, road crew, producers, former housemates and university colleagues, as well as musical contemporaries including Pete Townshend and Alice Cooper, <em>Comfortably Numb</em> follows Pink Floyd all the way from the early psychedelic nights at UFO in the mid-sixties to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, and finally the acrimonious schism that sundered the band in the '80s and '90s.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book about Pink Floyd. Humanized the &quot;Ledgend&quot; of Syd. Also, makes Roger Waters out to be a big A-Hole. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In July 2005 in Hyde Park, before a global audience of millions, Pink Floyd performed together on stage for the first time in 24 years. From the moment the metronomic pulse of a heartbeat thudded out to begin &quot;Speak to Me&quot; to the soaring guitar solo that climaxed &quot;Comfortably Numb,&quot; these self-effacing men in their late fifties stole the show. Almost a year later, the death of their troubled founder-member Syd Barrett made headline news worldwide. Both events signaled a kind of closure to the remarkable tale of one of the world's biggest bands.<br/><br/>Now, in the first full-length history of the group for more than fifteen years, Mark Blake tells the story of how a group of middle-class Englishmen conquered the world. Drawing on his own interviews with all of the band members, interviews with the group's friends, road crew, producers, former housemates and university colleagues, as well as musical contemporaries including Pete Townshend and Alice Cooper, <em>Comfortably Numb</em> follows Pink Floyd all the way from the early psychedelic nights at UFO in the mid-sixties to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, and finally the acrimonious schism that sundered the band in the '80s and '90s.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Casual fan or Floyd-aholic will find this a wonderful history of pop culture over the second half of the 20th Century. After spending hour upon hour on headphones in the spring of '73 listening to The Dark Side of the Moon and then in June seeing them live at the Blossom Music Center (where they per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20791386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book - being a huge Pink Floyd fan I read whatever I can get hold of. I thought after reading Nick Mason's 'Inside Out' that that would have been the final word on the Floyd. However,this book gets the views and opinions of a lot more people and is, obviously, less personal tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19657718">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An entertaining read - nothing revelatory, but I know a lot more about the history of Pink Floyd than when I started. If this book had been available when I was in high school, it would have had a five-star rating and an honored place on my bookshelf next to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Hammer of the Gods" title=" Hammer of the Gods"> Hammer of the Gods</a>. Recommended for Floy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19167180">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book did two things to me: 1. made me realize that the members of Pink Floyd aren't really that interesting, amusing or awesome (especially when compared to, say, the Beatles) and 2. make me miss my ex-husband. This book was not fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting view of a band I love.  Very detailed discography and show set reviews, but not enough of the details about rockstar antics.  Well researched.    ]]></body>
    
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