The Pink Floyd Story - "Which One Is Pink?" (BBC 2007) Legendado

 

The Pink Floyd Story (Legendado)

The Pink Floyd Story - Which One Is Pink? é um documentário produzido pela emissora britânica BBC em 2007, nele vemos a história da banda de rock progressivo mais conhecida da história. Desde o começo quando Syd Barrett liderava, até o final conturbado em 1994.

Este filme apresenta imagens do acervo BBC, alguns dos quais raramente ou nunca visto antes, ao lado de entrevistas originais com quatro membros do "Pink Floyd" - "David Gilmour", "Roger Waters", "Nick Mason" e "Richard Wright" - uma retrospectiva da trajetória dos cinco membros (incluindo Syd Barrett), três dos quais levaram a banda à diferentes estágios de sua evolução.

Traçando a história da banda desde os anos 60 da psicodélica de Londres até sua última reunião no "Live 8" em 2005, esta é a história de uma sucessão de picos musicais e comerciais em paralelo à sucessão de confrontos em torno da liderança criativa da banda. Primeiro liderado pelo cantor, guitarrista e compositor, o inovador "Syd Barrett", "Pink Floyd" esteve na vanguarda da era psicodélica da Grã-Bretanha. Depois de colocar a banda no mapa com sucessos como "Arnold Layne" e "See Emily Play", "Barrett" deriva para fora da banda em decorrência de experiências com LSD.

Então, "Roger Waters" gradualmente emerge como compositor principal da banda, propiciando vendas em escalas estratosféricas em meados dos anos 70, de álbuns conceituais como "Dark Side of the Moon" e "The Wall", dois dos mais vendidos e mais ousados ​​álbuns de todos os tempos. Mas o desejo de "Waters" em controlar a banda têm como consequência o crescente desconforto dos demais integrantes, o que culminou em sua saída, e em 1983, o álbum "Final Cut" seria seu último trabalho com o grupo.

"David Gilmour", a partir de então, assume o controle da banda produzindo dois globalmente bem sucedidos álbuns do "Pink Floyd", "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" (1987) e "The Division Bell" (1994), com a ajuda de "Nick Mason" e "Rick Wright". Enquanto isso, "Waters" em carreira solo realiza "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" (1984).

Como resultado do pleito de "Bob Geldof" (The Wall), "David Gilmour", "Rick Wright" e "Nick Mason" se reuniram com "Roger Waters" em 2005 no Live 8, juntos pela primeira vez após aproximadamente 25 anos.

Ficha técnica:
Ano: 2007
Diretor: Chris Rodley
Duração: 59 min
Formato: Mp4
Idioma: Inglês
Legenda: Português

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Over 40 years after Britain's foremost 'underground' band released their debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd remain one of the biggest brand names and best-loved bands in the world.

This film features extended archive, some of it rarely or never seen before, alongside original interviews with four members of Pink Floyd - David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright - and traces the journey of a band that has only ever had five members, three of whom have led the band at different stages of its evolution.

Tracing the band's history from psychedelic 60s London to their reunion appearance at Live 8 in 2005, this is the story of a succession of musical and commercial peaks separated by a succession of struggles around the creative leadership of the band. Their story was given added poignancy by the 2006 death of their estranged frontman, Syd Barrett.

Pink Floyd spearheaded the concept album, never sold themselves as personalities and expanded rock way beyond its three minute pop song beginnings. Pink Floyd has made the four members very rich and has consumed their creative lives, but it hasn't always made them friends. When first meeting their American record company, one of the executives apocryphally asked, "Which one's Pink?". This film traces the reverberations of that question throughout the band's history.

First led by the innovative singer, songwriter and guitarist Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd were at the forefront of Britain's psychedelic era. After putting the band on the map with hits like Arnold Layne and See Emily Play, Barrett drifted out of the band after experimenting with LSD.

The three remaining members added Barrett's old Cambridge friend David Gilmour to the band on guitar and functioned as a communal unit while creating extended sonic explorations on albums like Atom Heart Mother and Echoes. While creating ever larger and more visually ambitious stage shows, the band personally shunned the limelight, taking the stage as four shadowy figures and never appearing on their album covers.

Gradually Roger Waters emerged as the band's key songwriter, creating those massive selling concept albums of the mid-70s, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, two of the biggest-selling and boldest albums of all time. But Waters's desire to control the band and the increasing passivity of the others eventually left to him leaving the band and the name after 1983's The Final Cut album.

David Gilmour eventually assumed control of the band, producing two globally-successful Pink Floyd albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994), with the help of Nick Mason and Rick Wright. Meanwhile, Waters conducted a less commercially-successful solo career.

As a result of Bob Geldof's pleading, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason reunited with Roger Waters for one time only for 2005's Live 8, playing together for the first time in approximately 25 years.

Whether Pink Floyd will ever record or perform again with or without Roger Waters remains unclear.

Wish You'd Been Here - The Pink Floyd Story - BBC Radio 2 (2002)

Documentário permeado por grandes sucessos do Pink Floyd extraídos dos arquivos da BBC, sendo dirigido por Bob Harris, que há mais de 40 anos vêm atuando pela emissora e ainda em atividade. Também co-fundador da Time Out Magazine, revista inglesa semanal com enfoque no mundo das artes em geral, editada em várias línguas.  

Apresentando entrevistas exclusivas com "David Gilmour", "Nick Mason", "Roger Waters" e "Richard Wright", bem como as pessoas que conheceram e trabalharam com eles, trata-se de uma retrospectiva da trajetória do grupo, elaborada com a tradicional competência e seriedade da BBC. 

A boa repercussão deste episódio considerando a qualidade das gravações, aliado ao fato infelizmente comum no caso da grade BBC em geral, a inacessibilidade de seus registros passado algum tempo, reforçam a importância deste álbum. Abaixo relaciono a sinopse deste trabalho fornecido pela emissora na ocasião. Boa audição!

Pink Floyd

Wish You'd Been Here - The Pink Floyd
BBC Radio 2 (88-91 FM)
David Prest, producer
hosted by: Bob Harris

Original airdates:

2-Feb-2002 (part 1)
9-Feb-2002 (part 2)


DISC ONE - 2 February 2002 (57:01)

1. BBC Radio 2 jingle #1 - 0:15

2. Introduction - 5:18

3. London 1966 - 8:18 (incl. The Purple Gang: "Granny Takes A Trip", Pink Anderson & Floyd Council)

4. The Driving Force / The Live Floyd & The First Sessions - 11:21 (incl. "Bike", "Arnold Layne", Band Launch, "See Emily Play", The Problem With Singles)

5. The Visuals & The Volume - 5:04

6. The Problem With Syd - 8:11 (incl. "Jugband Blues")

7. Singles Give Way To Experimentation - 7:01 (incl. Ummagumma, "Grantchester Meadows", Not Pictured)

8. Atom Heart Mother / Meddle - 9:00

9. Closing Comments / To Be Continued - 2:16 (incl. "Eclipse")

10. BBC Radio 2 jingle #2 - 0:14

7. Singles Give Way To Experimentation

DISC TWO - 9 February 2002 (57:07)

1. BBC Radio 2 jingle #2 - 0:15

2. Dark Side Of The Moon - 14:11 (incl. "Speak To Me", "Breathe", Assembling The Album, "Great Gig In The Sky", "Money")

3. WYWH / Scarfe & Syd - 6:20

4. The Live Floyd Goes Invisible - 4:01

5. A Pig On The Wing - 4:27 (incl. The First Few Bricks)

6. The Punk Reaction - 2:51

7. Roger's Wall - 7:34 (incl. The Film, "Another Brick...pt.2", Live Wall, "Comfortably Numb")

8. The Final Cut / A Band At War - 4:12

9. Life After Waters - 5:03

10. A Lasting Influence - 4:17

11. Where Are They Now? - 3:40 (incl. "Wish You Were Here")

12. Station ID - 0:09

Comentários da BBC Radio 2:

In a major documentary for Radio 2, Bob Harris tells the story of one of music's most popular and influential bands - Pink Floyd. Featuring exclusive interviews with David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright, as well as the people who knew and worked with them. 

Over a career spanning 35 years, Pink Floyd have gone from being cult champions of the 60s underground to one of the most successful bands in the history of music. Dark Side of the Moon has sold in excess of 25 million copies and their music continues to inspire new generations of bands. Their story encompasses mental illness, world conquering success and protracted court battles. 

SET THE CONTROLS

Pink Floyd were formed in 1965 by teenage art student Roger "Syd" Barrett and his school friend Roger Waters. Recruiting Nick Mason on drums and Richard Wright on keyboards, they rapidly became darlings of the underground rock scene, thanks largely to Barrett's unique songs and innovative guitar sound. They were the house band at London's legendary UFO club, where they would perform long, avant garde improvisations, usually built round swathes of organ and howls of guitar feedback and bathed in psychedelic light shows. Signing to EMI, their first single, Arnold Layne (a whimsical ode to a cross dressing underwear freak) hit the UK top 20, building expectation for their debut album. When it arrived, Piper at the Gates of Dawn became, along with Sergeant Pepper, the defining record of the 1967 Summer of Love. 

But success had taken its toll on Barrett. Watched helplessly by his bandmates, he slowly slid into mental illness, instigated by both the demands of success and a mammoth diet of LSD. By early 1968 Barrett had been sacked from the band he formed, to be replaced by another childhood friend, David Gilmour. Roger Waters increasingly adopted the role of main writer, and over a string of albums the band began to enjoy even more success, culminating in 1973's Dark Side of the Moon. 

DARK SIDE

Dark Side catapulted the band onto the international stage. The album itself was a distillation of themes that had been developing in Waters' writing for many years - madness, money, time, death. Hardly the stuff of prime time radio, but it struck a chord, and Dark Side of the Moon eventually became one of the best selling albums in history. Helped by the success of the album, Pink Floyd became the epitome of 70s stadium rock. The light shows which had once been rudimentary affairs in the UFO club became ever more elaborate, the crowds ever more huge and the members' wallets ever more fat. But behind it all lurked the shadow of Barrett, whose descent into madness still haunted the band, Waters in particular. 

It was this loss that provided the basis for Wish You Were Here, released in 1975. The stirring Shine On You Crazy Diamond was written as a tribute to the fallen idol. By the mid 70s, however, punk was on the horizon and the Floyd were beginning to seem like anachronisms from a bygone age.Animals, released in 1977, with its stripped down production and biting social commentary, was largely seen as a response to slings and arrows of the punk cognoscente. Unfortunately it also marked the beginning of the end for the Waters led line up, with Richard Wright in particular growing frustrated at Waters' increasing control of the group. 

Waters' grand concepts reached their apogee in 1979 with the release of The Wall, a monumental double album addressing many of his familiar themes. It gave the band their first British hit single since 1968 when Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) hit the Christmas number one slot. The album was supported by a mammoth stage show, in which a 40 foot high wall was built in front of the band as they played, a visual metaphor for the increasing sense of alienation building between band and audience. All was not well within the band too, with Wright being given his marching orders during the making of the album at the instigation of Waters. 

THE FINAL CUT

The release of Alan Parker's movie of The Wall in 1982 heralded the last gasp of the Waters era Pink Floyd, which was wrapped up by 1983's aptly named The Final Cut. A solo Roger Waters album in all but name, it was a bitter critique of Thatcher's Britain and an elegy for Waters' father, killed at Anzio in 1944. It proved to be the last straw for Gilmour, who described the making of the album as "a pain in the ass". 

In 1985 Waters instigated High Court proceedings to dissolve the band. As far as Waters was concerned, he was Pink Floyd. Gilmour disagreed, eventually winning the rights to the Pink Floyd name and releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987. Augmented by a cast of session musicians, the Gilmour led Floyd even took Wright back into the fold for a record breaking world tour, which included massive concerts at the palace of Versailles and on an immense floating barge on Venice's Grand Canal. 

Waters continued with a sporadically successful solo career, initially threatening Gilmour with continued legal action but eventually conceding the Pink Floyd brand name was larger than the individual members. So it was proven when 1994'sThe Division Bell album sealed the Gilmour led incarnation's success. 

ECHOES

Last year Pink Floyd released Echoes, a newly remixed look back over their finest moments, hand picked by the band themselves, including Waters. In interviews conducted at the time, Gilmour hinted that it would be the swan song for the Floyd, which didn't prevent it selling in its millions. The album tracked the band from their Barrett led days as darlings of the English underground up to their 90s incarnation, but there was an empty place at the feast. Syd Barrett, perhaps British rock's only true cult hero, continues to live in peaceful obscurity in Cambride, but it is his songs which bookend Echoes, tumbling down the years with the optimism, madness and boundless experimentation of the long lost 60s.

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