In what year did Pink Floyd separated?

Question

In what year did Pink Floyd separated and in what year did Roger Waters separeted, and what was his last album?

Answer 1

Waters's last Pink Floyd studio album was 1983's The Final Cut.

In 1985, Roger Waters declared the band dissolved. The remaining members continued to tour under the name.

1994 was the non-Waters Pink Floyd's last studio album: The Division Bell.

Answer 2

Waters left in 1985 his last album with Pink Floyd was "the Final Cut"

the bands last Album Was "the Divison Bell" in 1994

Answer 3

Go to www.launch.yahoo.com and search pink floyd, they've got a short biography on there. I'm pretty sure it's not 1980 though because I think they had an album come out after that, like '82 or something.

Answer 4

1985, The Final Cut

Answer 5

1975........1985........The Wall

Answer 6

[1967]

Syd Barrett was the original front man in a British psychedelic blues group called "The Pink Floyd Sound."He started the group, named it (after Carolina musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) and wrote the group's first hits as well as almost all of its first full album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn.The group enjoyed a strong following among the ultra hip clubs of downtown London in 1966 and 1967 but it was not to last.Due to a combination of drug use and latent mental illness, Barrett's behavior became increasingly erratic until the rest of the band members invited guitarist David Gilmour to join the band to play for Barrett at gigs while Barrett would play in the studio and continue song writing.Soon, however, Barrett's breakdown made it impossible for him to continue with the band in any capacity and he left Pink Floyd, becoming something of a recluse.The band continued on, writing new material and touring until in 1973 they released the album Dark Side of the Moon, which catapulted them to superstardom.Suddenly everyone was talking about Pink Floyd.They sold out stadiums and ruled the charts.The album Wish You Were Here evolved from the band's melancholy over having achieved stunning success and grieving over what happened to their former leader, band mate and friend.Shine on You Crazy Diamond is a direct tribute to Barrett.The lyrics break your heart.
Remember when you were young?
You shined like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond..
Now there's a look in your eyes,
like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond
That was all it took; I was hooked.I devoured whole albums, simmering in their themes of alienation and exaltation.Pink Floyd is one of the only bands that discovered the creation of an album could be a separate art.The Beatles created the concept album with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and The Who's Tommy is one of the most ambitious rock albums of all time, but Pink Floyd mastered the concept album like no one else has ever done.Floyd albums are not disjointed collections of songs recorded and timed for air play but rather harmonious symphonies with many movements built around an introspective theme.Dark Side of the Moon is a juggernaut, each song written about the various aspects of life that lead to madness connected by soaring instrumental and electronic interludes.Animals is an Orwellian diatribe against various elements of society each responsible in their own way for war, exploitation and complacency.Floyd rocked the 1970's with gargantuan stage performances that incorporated light shows, pyrotechnics and enormous balloons.

As Pink Floyd gained stature and continued playing to sold out stadiums and concert halls, Roger Waters asserted more control as the band's creative force.Waters conceived of the band's principal concept albums, wrote the lyrics and sketched out the general strains of music to be fleshed out by the other artists.As Floyd became ever more popular Waters became more and more alienated from the band's audience.In 1979 he channeled his venom into The Wall, the band's magnum opus which chronicled the internal and external turmoil of a successful musician named Pink Floyd.

The Wall unleashed Waters' most ambitious song writing, album artwork and stage design but the album is tempered by David Gilmour's visceral guitar playing and singing.The Wall was a double album release, complete with world tour and motion picture.Unfortunately for fans, the album would prove to be the band's last great album.The Final Cut, a plaintive anti-war album released in 1983, was really a Roger Waters project with backing by Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason.Keyboardist Rick Wright was fired for his inability to overcome his cocaine addiction and Waters left immediately after The Final Cut was released, declaring that he would never play again with Pink Floyd.To make the split even more acrimonious, Waters attempted to legally have the name and material of Pink Floyd retired, sparking a long legal battle.After winning the suit, Gilmour entered the studio with Mason and Wright, releasing Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell.The albums did achieve some success, producing hits like "Learning to Fly" and they were both followed up by extremely successful world tours.Nonetheless, many purists consider the post-Waters Pink Floyd to be little more than an epilogue to the band's earlier hits.

In my fascination with Pink Floyd, I came to know this history like the gospel.I came to feel the characteristic pangs of curiosity over the ultimate fate of Syd Barrett (the reclusive Barrett finally passed away this spring).I rejoiced over Roger Waters' decision to tour, playing Pink Floyd hits.During the summer of 1999 I saw Waters in concert at the PNC Bank Art Center.The marathon concert opened to the thunderous chords of The Wall but meandered through selected hits from other classic Floyd albums.The highlight of the concert for me was when Waters played some songs from The Final Cut, an album which had never been played on a Pink Floyd tour.As I listened and sang in unison with thousands of fans anthems such as "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortable Numb" I could not help but wish for a Pink Floyd reunion.

Pink Floyd fans treasure rumors of potential Pink Floyd reunions like sightings of some mythological beast.Friends and strangers would mention the rumor that Pink Floyd had discussed entering the studio for a new album.The internet would reverberate with stories of an impromptu concert at some small venue in the Caribbean.Of course none of these rumors were true until last year.

Bob Geldoff, front man for the Boomtown Rats, created the original Live Aid Concert during the 1980's.The concert to alleviate African poverty brought together some of the most popular acts of the day in one of the largest charity events in history.Geldoff, coincidentally played the character of Pink Floyd in the movie version of The Wall.Almost twenty years later Geldoff conceived of a new series of world wide concerts designed to influence the 2005 G-8 conference to wipe out some the debt owed by African nations to the world's wealthiest countries.Geldoff, noble soul that he is, proved to be something of a miracle worker, however, when he managed to bring about the impossible.At his request and also to make peace with each other, the members of Pink Floyd-all of them-agreed to take the stage and play in the London Live 8 concert.

It was emotional moment for generations of music fans: the members of Pink Floyd together on stage playing their most famous song, "Wish You Were Here," before legions of fans and a worldwide television audience.It was a moment dreamed of for so long.When I heard the news I was elated.The rumors of a full fledged reunion abounded with a renewed vigor.Everyone expected a new album and accompanying tour-but nothing happened.David Gilmour, speaking for the rest of the band, declared that he had no desire to continue with Pink Floyd but did not rule out the possibility of an appearance similar to the Live 8 concert.This declaration was followed by rumors of continuing personality conflicts between Waters and the rest of the band members, though this was somewhat contradicted by drummer Nick Mason's acceptance of Waters' invitation to go on tour with him, playing Pink Floyd classics.Since then there has been no news.

The recent revival of hope for a Pink Floyd reunion has perhaps made it worse than ever.Fans, given the image of their beloved band playing together were tantalized by the promise of new albums and concerts.That promise turned out to be a vain one.On that stage in London fans saw Pink Floyd for what it has come to be, a group of old men who want only to be with their families and pursue their private projects.The magic on that stage was the magic of nostalgia and the longing for what is irrevocably lost-sentiments not unlike the lyrics to "Wish You Were Here" itself.Gone is the ambition and creative vigor that birthed such albums as Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.Unlike the Beatles, the members of Pink Floyd have not shown the ability to create anything solo that is on par with their work as a band.Waters' solo albums have been political and social commentaries overloaded with lyrics that border on shrill.Gilmour, Mason and Wright, meanwhile have produced nothing more than nondescript rock and pop albums.Perhaps the Live 8 performance was nothing more than a requiem, finally laying to rest the inanimate remains of Pink Floyd.

But hope still lingers in my breast!Pink Floyd for me, represents a singularity in music.They preside as a standard of excellence against which all other music must be judged.Pink Floyd's conscience, taste and vision exist vividly in my mind as something known and felt intimately, like a family member or faithful friend.Floyd did not write for the radio or even for their fans but rather as a celebration of their own creativity and the intrepidity of breaking new ground.Floyd brought thoughtfulness to every element of their craft.Their lyrics are not trite sentiments rehashed about love and loss but insightful words that explore the neuroses of everyday people and the desperate madness of human nature.Their concerts were spectacles of light and sound that created a full sensory experience.Even Pink Floyd's album artwork showed a care for originality and presentation largely absent in the drab covers of most other band's albums.These covers are indelibly printed in the mind of any Floyd fan.I cannot help but recall that those four men, who are all still living, recreated what it means to be a rock band.I cannot help but think that perhaps, in a studio, some of that energy could be harnessed to create something new: a Pink Floyd album bringing to bear the band's considerable talent and insight to comment on the world as it is now.I know that they would have plenty to say, I can only hope that they deign to share that insight with us once more.