Cold Thrills

In the second half of the 1960s, the pop music industry began targeting intelligent psychedelic rock at drug-taking college kids. At the vanguard of this new approach was Pink Floyd.

To begin with the band played improvised rock'n'roll intended to overwhelm the senses of a faithful who came to drop LSD and dance. Then it moved to concert halls, creating jaw-dropping multimedia shows incorporating performance art and the avant garde and all the possibilities of emerging sound and light technology for a stoned audience that sat and watched and expected to be transported.

In this series Scott Meze explores this music in unprecedented detail. He dives deep to unearth the psychedelic treasures in every band release, including the solo albums you must own. He covers studio outtakes, film and TV footage, and every circulating live show from UFO to The Wall, explaining what you hear, how good the band is, and which ones you must put in your playlist.

Together, the four volumes of this series represent the ultimate collector's guide to Pink Floyd's psychedelic music, and an indispensable companion for every cosmic adventurer.

This fourth and final volume begins with a band staggered by its own success and trying desperately to match its vision to the demands of bigger, less contemplative crowds. With massive hits like Wish You Were Here and The Wall, there were still triumphs ahead, and the spectacle was unprecedented in its scale and ambition, but connection was lost -- externally and internally. You'll follow the band through these highs and lows, exploring all its authorized and circulating work to the end of Roger Waters's tenure, including more than 70 audience recordings, and trace its essential releases, both solo and under the band name, right up to the present day.