A DOZEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PINK FLOYD

1. The band are named after their two favourite songs - 'Lily the Pink' by The Scaffold and 'Pretty Boy Floyd' by Woody Guthrie.

2. Original singer Syd Barrett did not own a bike.

3. Best selling album The Dark Side of the Moon almost wasn't released due to litigation brought by Sir Buzz Aldrin.

4. Its follow up, Wish You Were Here, is a musical tribute to the television travel show 'Holiday '74'.

5. Amongst the children's choir on 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part two)' were the children of Brian Blessed and Angela Rippon.

6. When played backwards, the song 'Empty Spaces' reveals that the band are in fact Santa worshippers.

7. Waters and Gilmour had extensive creative differences over the making of fan favourite song 'Comfortably Numb'. Ultimately Waters gave in and the song ended with a guitar solo rather than his preferred Stylophone extravagana.

8. Nick Mason never fully recovered from his motor racing accident and drums to the day using remote control shoulders, operated by levers between his fingers.

9. The songs on the post-Roger albums 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' and 'The Division Bell' were submitted by members of the Why Don't You gang.

10. The band reformed for the final time at the Live 8 concert. Bob Geldof persuaded them to do so by

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courtesy of parishioner gnb 123 (how's that pronounced by the way?)

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