Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

Best book about Pink Floyd I’ve read…

O autor Mark Blake nos oferece uma atualização sobre a publicação original. Eu tinha já a primeira edição traduzida para o português, mas assim mesmo decidi adquirir esta segunda edição, agora atualizada e original. Redundante? Talvez, e não critico quem assim julgar. Mas, para quem se considera realmente um aficcionado do Pink Floyd, esta obra atualizada é imprescindível. Bem escrito, extremamente detalhado e nem por isso monótono ou enfadonho, o livro nos leva a entender a inspiração por trás de cada música, a saída de Barrett, a catarse de Waters da sua neurose pela perda do pai na segunda guerra mundial, bem como a sua separação de Wright, e depois de Mason e Gilmour, estes mantendo então a banda até seus últimos shows (pelo menos até agora). Se houver mais algum, seguramente teremos que aguardar a terceira edição. Recomendo!.

Brilliant band, awesome read, thanks Amazon for now I'm a lazy person who doesn't leave home even to buy books 😇

Unlike some of the other reviewers, this is the first book about Pink Floyd I've read, and chose it based on a lot of the other reviewers saying that it was the best book about Pink Floyd there is.Now that I've finished it, without reading any of the others, I would tend to agree with previous assessments. It is a VERY thorough and well-researched book. To be perfectly honest, I almost found the beginning couple of chapters almost TOO well researched at times. If I have a complaint, it's in those early chapters delving into some figures or details about the main five that I just didn't find overly interesting, hoping to start getting into the "meat" of the book.As much as I like Pink Floyd, I was never a super ardent fan, so most of the behind the scene details were almost entirely new to me. I mean, I know Roger Waters left the band, but never really knew why or the degree of animosity there was. Roger Waters definitely does not come off looking very good in the book. To me it seemed that all the difficulties that he experienced in his early years that affected him so deeply, he decided to inflict those same difficulties on pretty much everyone surrounding him.Despite everything that was going on, they still managed to create (in my opinion) five of the best albums of all time (everything between Dark Side of the Moon and The Final Cut).If you're looking for the definitive (if not "official") biography of Pink Floyd, I would definitely recommend this at your starting point. (And music-wise, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here as your starting point.)(Side note, the book is 418 pages, not 448.)

An almost defitive account of the Floyd's world. through Barrett days until the litigation over the group's name. Waters and Gilmour limited.