“I’ll never forget Pete Murray saying on ‘Juke Box Jury’ that we were just a cult and would last for six months.”įrom the groundwork laid by the Floyd and their contemporaries the whole Underground network, along with the University circuit, built up.Ĭould Richard forsee the progressive boom? “I knew it would happen some time but I didn’t know if it would happen quickly or slowly. “They saw us as a lot of freaks getting up on stage and playing freakish music. “People just didn’t believe in us I think they regarded us as a huge joke,” continued Richard without bitterness. Instead we came along with this strange music they didn’t understand. “At the same time we had a slight hit with See Emily Play and people expected us to play Top 20 stuff. “But when we went outside London nobody wanted to know. “When we started in UFO it was a beautiful place to play,” recalled Floyd keyboard wizard Richard Wright when we spoke last week. Three or so years back when it was all starting, Pink Floyd were getting a rough ride from the pop pundits… but went on to do perhaps more than any other group to open the way for the new breed of pop musicians who in 1969 have made their presence felt in no uncertain manner.Īs far as last laughs and all that, Pink Floyd have plenty to chuckle about. When the Tremeloes can talk about playing progressive material then the day is dawning for the complete establishment into pop of a stream of music once laughed at and contemptuously dismissed as a short-lived fad. Label: EMI Records, Harvest Records (UK), SHDW 1, SHDW 2
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