Book The Total - Pink Floyd

“It took no less than 592 pages to decipher, analyze and explain the Pink Floyd sound that transformed the history of music.”

1966. While a whole youth group is experiencing the most heroic and exhilarating hours of Swingin' London, a group is causing a sensation. Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason play blues rock like no one else. A psychedelic blues rock, hallucinatory, one might say. A few months later, in 1967, they recorded their first singles, Arnold Layne/Candy And A Currant Bun and See Emily Play/Scarecrow, then their first album, “The Piper Gates Of Dawn”. Pink Floyd’s prodigious career began…

Pink Floyd, the total analyzes in depth the group's 179 songs, recorded with Syd Barrett, first of all, then with David Gilmour. 179 songs, released between 1967 and 2014, which show the spurring role of the British group, freed from American influence to shape music with a thousand climates: psychedelic, soaring, acoustic ballads, symphonic and even hard rock.

Study of the texts, immersion in the group's creative process in the studio, focus on the producers and sound engineers, on the instruments... nothing was left to chance to delve into the heart of Pink Floyd's music."