Wish you were here : inside Pink Floyd's musical milestone / Will Romano.

"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 icon...

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Main Author: Romano, Will, 1970- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2020]
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Physical Description:xxi, 302 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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