Research Catalog
Wish you were here : inside Pink Floyd's musical milestone
- Title
- Wish you were here : inside Pink Floyd's musical milestone / Will Romano.
- Author
- Romano, Will, 1970-
- Publication
- Guilford, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2020]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *LE 21-3555 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 302 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The mid-'70s were a time of reckoning. It was also an era of paradoxes, of record making and record breaking, of sold-out shows, and, in the minds of some, sell-out artists. Critics, who once exalted the shamanic characteristics of rock stars, launched full-frontal assaults on mainstream music icons and their tendencies toward overindulgent artistic visions. Amid this confusion, psychedelic and progressive rock pioneers Pink Floyd, unlikely messengers in uncertain times, unleashed their 1975 progressive rock milestone, Wish You Were Here. Refusing to buckle under pressure, Floyd looked inward to produce Wish You Were Here, a conceptual, self-referential album that spoke of spiritual depravation, mental absence, and industry corruption, while, perhaps inadvertently, reflecting the general madness and societal malaise of the mid-'70s. Created in the spirit of camaraderie, Wish You Were Here waged war against the system, better known in Floydlandia as "The Machine," while paying tribute to a fallen hero and victim of the industry the creative force fundamental to the band's existence, Syd Barrett. As our world was racked by unsustainable overseas military conflicts, governmental scandals, political assassination attempts, and a near-total erosion of the public trust, Pink Floyd emerged victorious, responding to this external dissonance with their ultimate band statement. What a strange, complex moment in time to have generated a classic. After 1975, Pink Floyd would never be the same and neither would we." --
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and index.
- Discography: pages 281-289.
- Contents
- Introduction. 1975: machines, madness and matyrs -- Crossfire of childhood and stardom -- Daft cow -- Assorted lunatics -- Shaking off this creeping malaise -- Vanishing point -- The music: SYD suquence -- Heroes for ghosts -- made into a monster -- Epilogue. Floyd saved my life.
- Call Number
- *LE 21-3555
- ISBN
- 9781617136849
- 1617136840
- OCLC
- 1129670660
- Author
- Romano, Will, 1970- author.
- Title
- Wish you were here : inside Pink Floyd's musical milestone / Will Romano.
- Publisher
- Guilford, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and index.Discography: pages 281-289.
- Research Call Number
- *LE 21-3555