7 STORIES
1973 · 70S
LONDON, UK
It sounds like the most relaxing song ever recorded, but "Breathe" is a warning: a set of instructions handed to someone at the start of lif…
1973 · 70S
"Money" is not a protest song against greed so much as a piece of ventriloquism, with Roger Waters sneering in the voice of the man who alre…
1973 · 70S
A meditation on mortality disguised as a rock song, "Time" stands as the conceptual centerpiece of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon."…
1975 · 70S
ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, LONDON, UK
Pink Floyd's 26-minute elegy is a letter to Syd Barrett, the founder they had quietly edged out seven years earlier. The eeriest part of the…
1975 · 70S
A ballad disguised as a sigh, "Wish You Were Here" is Pink Floyd's most quietly devastating song — a letter to a friend who was no longer qu…
1979 · 70S
A disco-tempo protest song wrapped inside a triple-suite concept album, "Another Brick in the Wall" turned a children's choir into a batteri…
1979 · 70S
A six-minute meditation on dissociation disguised as a stadium rock anthem, "Comfortably Numb" arrived in late 1979 as the emotional pivot o…