Pink Floyd (UK, 60s-00s)

However, its leader and main composer, Syd Barrett, was such an excessive taker of mind-expanding, brainwashing pills that his bandmates eventually decided to part company. His place was taken by David Gilmour, with whom the band went down a very different path. Pink Floyd's music has always been based on the human imagination: it has captivated listeners with its dignified flow, its lyricism, its patheticness, its sudden changes of tone, and its musical world has become known as space rock or sci-fi rock because of the effect it has on the listener's mind.

A series of rock history lectures from the blues through Elvis to the 1970s. In 2022, the MZH Multimedia Library and Club launched a permanent monthly programme, Rock and Roll Open University. The Rock and Roll Free University will present the most important processes and artists in international pop history. Rock and roll is the result, in a somewhat simplistic way, of a particular cultural-historical marriage: when the musical traditions of black slaves (blues) brought over from Africa and white settlers (country) from Europe met and mixed in a third continent, the Americas. Moreover, all this was taking place in a radically transforming society, following technological progress and the associated industrialisation and urbanisation. In the seventh season of this series (Spring 2025), we look at the social, cultural and musical events of the UK at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.