{"product_id":"comfortably-numb-9780306817526","title":"Comfortably Numb","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert (\"The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd...nearly as essential as the music itself.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of \u003ci\u003ePiper at the Gates of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, the band's painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park. Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, \u003ci\u003eComfortably Numb\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of this most adventurous--and most English--rock band.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Blake\u003c\/b\u003e is a former assistant editor of \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, a long-time contributor to its sister titles \u003ci\u003eMOJO\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlanet Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \u003ci\u003eClassic Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of two definitive music books, \u003ci\u003eDylan: Visions, Portraits \u0026amp; Back Pages\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePunk: The Whole Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of the Pink Floyd biography \u003ci\u003eComfortably Numb\u003c\/i\u003e and the Queen biography \u003ci\u003eIs This the Real Life?\u003c\/i\u003e Blake lives in London with his wife and son.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655353176338,"sku":"9780306817526","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78ddadf9-876b-4968-8ab2-6f73bffbfb42.jpg?v=1733379809","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/comfortably-numb-9780306817526","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}