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ore often than not, when the name ‘Pink Floyd’ is mentioned I would wager that minds immediately think of or . Or for early? It’s an intriguing time for a band who were struggling to get to grips with the loss of their guiding light and principal songwriter; who threw themselves into soundtrack work to try to get a steer on where to go next; who were getting their heads around the emergence of Roger Waters as a songwriter and the ascendance of David Gilmour as a singer and player… It was a time of flux before things went absolutely stratospheric when they released on an unsuspecting world. And it’s this tumultuous period of Floyd that we visit this month.

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