Classic Rock

Pink Floyd

Delicate Sound Of Thunder PINK FLOYD

“Quite a clever forgery,” was Roger Waters’s judgement on 1987’s , the first post-Waters, David Gilmour-led Floyd record. Clever enough, in fact, that it didn’t merely echo the formulas and tones of 1975’s it cut and had refined psychedelia into grander statements that hovered above – rather than at the centre of – prog rock, was a cultured take on the synthetic sheen of the 80s; sleek-shelled but containing meat.

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