Comfortably Numb, Mark Blake
Comfortably Numb, Mark Blake
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Comfortably Numb
The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

Author: Mark Blake

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Unabridged: 17 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 11/14/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band's painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park.Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous—and most English—rock band.

About Mark Blake

Mark Blake has been writing about popular music and culture since 1989. A former assistant editor of Q and regular contributor to Mojo and Classic Rock magazines, Blake is also the author of Bring It On Home, Pretend You're In A War: The Who and the Sixties, Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story Of Queen, and Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on March 28, 2017

I have been a Floyd fan since I started listening to rock-n-roll as a pre-teen when The Wall came out, screaming "We don't need no education" when it came on the radio (or MTV), but hardly new anything about the band. When I was in high school, Roger had split with the other three and, yet, I was bl......more

Goodreads review by Sam on March 11, 2009

Man, is this one going fast. I've neglected books I was reading just to zip through this one. I'll even be in bed, barely awake, and CANNOT put the fucker down. I think I've read just about every book on PINK FLOYD, learning little bits of information along the way, filling in the gaps, sometimes eve......more

Goodreads review by Danilo on July 20, 2020

Iako mi je Pink Flojd omiljeni bend malo sam se mučio sa ovom biografijom. Mislim da mi više leže autobiografije ili malo 'subjektivnije' napisane biografije kroz koje se provlači neki motiv. Da malo bolje razumem zašto je neko nešto radio, u kakvom je stanju bio i slično. Takođe sam se iznenadio da s......more

Goodreads review by Niki on November 28, 2021

Pink Floyd je bila grupa koja me je decenijama okruživala, dominantno jer su ljudi oko mene, kako bliski tako i novi u mom životu, zagriženi fanovi iste. Budući da nikad nisam bila fan progresivnog roka, davala sam im šansu par puta u toku ranih dvadesetih i svaki put odustajala. Razumljivo, pošto s......more

Goodreads review by Dave on September 26, 2021

The bio on Pink Floyd from inception with Syd Barrett forming the band named after blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council to the addition of David Gilmour on guitar after Barrett checks out with inconsistency, major drug use and distraction through a Roger Waters lyrically led group produc......more


Quotes

New York Press, 1/20/09
“You really do feel as if you’re being sucked into the drama. That’s a testament to Blake doing his job…It’s a journalistic take on the band, and its reads like a history book. It’s respectful and revealing, but not in a scandalous way.”

Blurt Magazine, 2/09
“Mark Blake has clearly done his share of research…Blake is at his best [when] providing those details that leap off the page while placing Pink Floyd squarely in the context of the times.”