Pink Floyd facts

• Pink Floyd have sold over 200 million albums worldwide.
• Pink Floyd was formed in 1965
• The English band are one of the most commercially successful music groups of all time.
• Original members (1965): Roger Waters, Bob Klose, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and Syd Barrett.
• Syd Barrett's real name is Roger Keith Barett.
• The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
• Bob Klose left the band to become a photographer.
• Pink Floyd have sold over 74.5 million certified units in the U.S.
• David Gilmour once played with Paul McCartney.
• Roger Waters and Nick Mason met at the Regent Street Polytechnic inLondon, where both were studying architecture.
• Nick Mason is the only band member to appear on every Pink Floyd release, in their 28 years of recording music.
• The longest performance of "The Dark Side of the Moon" lasted almost 65 minutes, whereas the shortest lasted less than 40.
• Alan Parsons won a Grammy Award for his production work on 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon".