- Andy Miller
Andy Miller (born 18 December 1968, in London) was a guitarist with the Britpop band, Dodgy. Miller was credited with providing the psychedelic, Hendrix / Floyd trip happy guitar sound of Dodgy's music. His new band is called Hey Gravity. - Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born September 9, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. He is best known for his 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter (after the departure of Syd Barrett), bass player and one of their lead vocalists (along with David Gilmour and, to a lesser extent, Rick Wright). He was also the mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, … - David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has also worked as a record producer for a variety of famous artists. Gilmour has been very active in many charity organisations over the course of his career. In 2003, he was appointed CBE for this work. Gilmour was also voted No. - Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. He is best remembered as a founding member of Pink Floyd. He was active as a rock musician for about ten years before going into seclusion, from which he never publicly emerged for 35 years, until his death in 2006. - Kate Bush
Kate Bush (born 30 July, 1958, Bexleyheath, Greater London) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic lyrics have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful and original solo female performers of the past 30 years. BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Bush was signed up by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. - Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only consistent member of the band since its formation. He also competes in auto racing, e.g., the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London (many online biographies mistakenly cite the street address, … - Richard Wright
Richard William "Rick" Wright is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers have been a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd’s sound. - Paolo Nutini
Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) is a singer/songwriter from Paisley, Scotland. His father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany and his mother is Scottish, although his father's family have been in Scotland for four generations. His influences include The Beatles, David Bowie, Damien Rice, Oasis, U2, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac. - Tony Levin
Tony Levin (born June 6 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an influential American bass player. He has played with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Yes, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Dire Straits, Joan Armatrading, Alice Cooper, Seal, David Bowie, Deodato, Pandora's Box, Carly Simon, California Guitar Trio, Sarah McLachlan, Kevin Max, The Roches and Paul Simon, among many others. - Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson (born 1944 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire) is an English graphic designer. He was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Perhaps his most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd. His design for "Dark Side of the Moon" has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time. Many of his designs are notable for their surreal elements. - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter. Gil is also the current Minister of Culture of the country. Gil is best known for his late 1960s "tropicalismo" recordings, including "Roda", "Lunik 9", and "Domingo No Parque". Elis Regina has recorded many of the songs he wrote. He began his career as a "bossa nova" musician, … - Guy Pratt
Guy Pratt is a well-known session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. He was born January 3 1962 in London, England, son of actor Mike Pratt. In 1996, Pratt married Gala Wright, the daughter of Richard Wright. Pratt is best known for his work as a session player. He has worked with Pink Floyd, Kirsty MacColl, The Smiths, Lemon Jelly, The Orb, All Saints, Icehouse, Madonna, Stephen Duffy, Robbie Robertson, Roxy Music, Michael Jackson, Gary Moore, … - Snowy White
Terence Charles "Snowy" White (born 3 March 1948, in Barnstaple, Devon) is an English guitarist, mostly known for having played for Thin Lizzy (permanent member from 1979 to 1981) and for Pink Floyd (as a back-up player; he was first invited to join the band through Europe and the United States, in 1977). - Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer (born 19 September, 1969, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist. - Ron Geesin
Ronald 'Ron' Geesin (born 17 December 1943, in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a British musician and composer, noted for his quirky creations and novel applications of sound. He is probably best known as the co-author of Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother (suite)" in 1970. Geesin first collaborated with the band's Roger Waters (the two shared a love of golf) on 1970's unconventional film soundtrack "Music from "The Body", sampling organic sounds, … - Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles psychedelic band Love, best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, "Forever Changes". Lee was born Arthur Porter Taylor in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Chester Taylor, a white jazz cornet player and Agnes Taylor, an African American school teacher. The family moved to Los Angeles, California when Lee was five. - Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. - James Guthrie
James Guthrie (b. 1951 after he said he was 28 when he worked on Pink Floyd's The Wall album in a 1999 interview with Mojo magazine) is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Pink Floyd. Guthrie has worked on their biggest selling album, "The Wall" as engineer and co-producer, and has subsequently worked with the band and its members in some form or another on all future products. - Jon Carin
Jon Carin (born October 21 1964 in New York) is a musician, producer, engineer, writer and programmer who plays keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drums and sings. Also known as the front-man (lead vocalist, keyboard and guitar player) of the 80s band Industry, whose 1984 breakthrough single State Of The Nation was followed in the same year by the successful album Stranger To Stranger. - Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Anthony Scarfe (born 1 June 1936 in London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his work with Pink Floyd, particularly The Wall, and as an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker. He is married to Jane Asher, whom he met in 1971 and married in 1981. They had a daughter in 1974 and two sons in 1981 and 1984. - David John Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour was born on 6th March, 1946, in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge. As the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd, he is by many considered one of the most influential guitarists on the rock stage. Right up to "The Dark Side of The Moon", Dave wrote his own songs, but from then up to "The Final Cut", Roger Waters wrote almost all the lyrics. Dave made up for it by producing some excellent guitar work, and production work on all those albums, most notably on the songs Shine On You... - Nick Mason
The only member of Pink Floyd that performed on every album. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Pink Floyd) in 1996. Has four children, Chloe and Holly (with Lindy), and Guy and Cary (with Annette) The only original member of Pink Floyd to have been there since the start. Has a love for car racing and collecting antique automobiles. Attended London's Regent Street Polytechnic alongside fellow band mates Roger Waters,and Richard Wright. - Pink Floyd
Member of rock group Pink Floyd. Before joining Pink Floyd in 1964, he worked as an actor, painter and writer. Was eventually booted from Pink Floyd when the band members simply decided not to pick him up for gigs. During the taping of the band's appearance on "The Pat Boone Show" (1967) in 1967, he was so stoned that he couldn't even lip-sync his own vocals, much less mime his own guitar playing (bands playing on television in those days would often mime along to their hit... - Pete Namlook
Pete Namlook is a ambient and electronic-music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversees. Inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Pink Floyd, he also composes his own albums. - Dick Parry
Dick Parry (born December 22, 1942 in Kentford, Suffolk, England) is an English saxophonist. He has appeared as a session musician on various albums by modern bands and artists, and is probably most famous for his solo parts on the Pink Floyd songs "Money", "Us and Them", and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". He started his career as a friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, and was part of a mid-1960's band called Joker's Wild. - Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, 24 April, 1954) is a singer and guitarist (and sometimes bassist) who grew up in Croydon, England and founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an (alternative) pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image. His signature headwear is a red beret. - Syd Matters
Syd Matters is a French musician whose real name is Jonathan Morali. Syd Matters is a pseudonym which comes from slight modification of the names of two Pink Floyd members: Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. Matters was born April 14, 1973 in Paris. As a child he found little enjoyment in subjects such as math and science but showed great interest in the arts, which later led to his studying music at Sarah Lawrence College. - Pepe Aguilar
Pepe Aguilar is an American singer of Mexican decent who sings ranchera music. He is the son of the legends of Mexican show-business Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre. His height: 6' 5" inch Aguilar was born during a difficult period in his father's career. He is the uncle of la jodona Antonio Aguilar, who is also a singer and an actor, was not selling his albums well or being hired for films in Mexico, so the Aguilar family emigrated, … - Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice (b. December 15, 1946, Brooklyn, New York) is a widely respected, versatile and well-traveled rock drummer, and is brother to Vinny Appice, who also plays drums professionally. He first came to prominence as the flamboyant percussionist with the late 1960s psychedelic foursome Vanilla Fudge. Appice and bassist Tim Bogert contributed distinctive background harmonies to the group's high-decibel sonic assault. - Norman Smith
Norman Smith (born 22 February1923) is a musician and record producer. He was the engineer on all of the recordings by the Beatles up until 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he recorded was "Rubber Soul". A native of the North London area of Edmonton, Smith was working with the Beatles on 17 June1965 when he was offered 15,000 pounds by the band's music publishing company, Dick James Music, … - Bob Klose
Rado 'Bob' Klose (born 1944; sometimes referred to as Bob Close or Brian Close in various publications) is an English musician and photographer. He was one of the earliest members of the rock band Pink Floyd, playing lead guitar; however, he left the band before they recorded their first released single, "Arnold Layne". "The Abdabs" (also known as "The Screaming Abdabs"), with Roger Waters (lead guitar), Rick Wright (rhythm guitar), Nick Mason (drums), … - Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner (1944 -) is a British manager of rock bands and acts, and a record producer. He has also worked as an A&R man. With Andrew King, he was part of Blackhill Enterprises, which managed Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett's solo career, Marc Bolan, Roy Harper (whose records Jenner also produced), The Edgar Broughton Band and The Clash. - Clare Torry
Clare Torry is a British singer, best known for her soulfully evocative wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Torry has also performed as a session singer and live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, The Alan Parsons Project (for which she also sang lead vocal on one track), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club (on their hit "The War Song"), … - Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born August 26, 1941 in Teheran to a Swiss German geologist father) is a movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Schroeder's production company "Les Films du Losange", founded by him at age 23, produced some of the best-known films of the French New Wave. His directorial debut, "More" (1969), about heroin addiction, … - Tim Renwick
Tim Renwick (born August 7, 1949 in Cambridgeshire, England) is an English guitarist. - Robert Berry
Robert Berry is a San Francisco based guitarist, vocalist and producer with Magna Carta Records. He has performed with Hush, 3, and Ambrosia, Alliance, and dozens of sessions and tribute albums to bands such as Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Jethro Tull. The number of tribute albums done in this fashion has led to criticism from various sources, including Neil Peart of Rush, that they are in fact cover albums, not tributes. Berry's name came into the spotlight in 1988, … - Steve O'Rourke
Steve O'Rourke was born in Willesden, London, England. He was well known for being manager of rock band Pink Floyd after the departure of Syd Barrett in 1968 until his death. He also had to weather the band's falling-out with member Roger Waters. He first managed Pink Floyd while working at the Bryan Morrison Agency, then NEMS Enterprises. Later, he founded his own company, EMKA Productions, … - Tom Hodges
Thomas D. Hodges (b. April 5, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist. He is best known as the artist for Star Wars.com's Expanded Universe webstrips Reversal of Fortune, Topps Star Wars Heritage and Revenge of the Sith sketch Cards and DK published You Can Draw Star Wars Tom Hodges --Vmperella 14:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC) - Monty C Floyd
At 24, Monty moved to Raleigh, North Carolina to enter national political fund-raising. Eventually, his job took him to Wilmington where he became interested in acting, which prompted him to head for Hollywood. There he pursued his craft while continuing fund-raising. Eventually he examined his life and decided to take the big challenge - go to NYC and become a screenwriter. That ended up being his best move;not only career wise - he fell for his German roommate two weeks after moving... - Polly Samson
Polly Samson, journalist and writer, was born in London in 1962 to a diplomatic correspondent father and a writer mother of Chinese descent (mother, Esther Cheo Ying, wrote a memoir "Black County Girl In Red China", about her time serving as a Major in Mao Zedong's Red Army). Following a troubled childhood, she joined the publishing industry, through which she met the writer Heathcote Williams, with whom she had her first son, Charlie.
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