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Ein Review aus dem Classic Rock Magazin 04.2022 auf Louder Sound
Hier gibt es den vollständigen Artikel Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd: the story behind the song | Louder
“Oh look, we’re rich. We set out to achieve what we set out to achieve. What do we do now?”
How a freak meeting with a lost friend shocked one of rock’s biggest bands to tears - and inspired one of their greatest ever Songs
Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a bittersweet tribute to former frontman Syd Barrett
One day in the summer of 2011, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour was driving through London’s King Cross when he decided to look for Unit Studios.
It was here, in January 1974, that he’d conjured up the four-note guitar figure that ignites Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Gilmour couldn’t remember the address, only that the tiny rehearsal room was down an alley and “an absolute shit-hole”.
But it was long gone now. From such inauspicious surroundings came a piece of music that book-ended Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here and still defines them today.
Although never released as a single, and running to nine parts and 26 minutes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is Floyd’s greatest (non) hit.
In 1974 the band were reeling from the success of the previous year’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, which had jettisoned them from cult status to a US chart-topping act. But none of them knew what to do next.
Hier gibt es den vollständigen Artikel Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd: the story behind the song | Louder
“Oh look, we’re rich. We set out to achieve what we set out to achieve. What do we do now?”
How a freak meeting with a lost friend shocked one of rock’s biggest bands to tears - and inspired one of their greatest ever Songs
Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a bittersweet tribute to former frontman Syd Barrett
One day in the summer of 2011, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour was driving through London’s King Cross when he decided to look for Unit Studios.
It was here, in January 1974, that he’d conjured up the four-note guitar figure that ignites Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Gilmour couldn’t remember the address, only that the tiny rehearsal room was down an alley and “an absolute shit-hole”.
But it was long gone now. From such inauspicious surroundings came a piece of music that book-ended Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here and still defines them today.
Although never released as a single, and running to nine parts and 26 minutes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is Floyd’s greatest (non) hit.
In 1974 the band were reeling from the success of the previous year’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, which had jettisoned them from cult status to a US chart-topping act. But none of them knew what to do next.