* Animals ( Pink Floyd album ), a 1977 concept album by Pink Floyd

* " Mademoiselle Nobs " from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii ( 1971 ) who " sings " a song with the band.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

Styx began its series of concept albums in 1977 with The Grand Illusion-focused on self-constructed and societal walls ( similar to The Wall by Pink Floyd )-then followed it with Pieces of Eight in 1978.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

* 2006 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Pink Floyd and Stars ) ( b. 1946 )

* 1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer ( Pink Floyd )

* 1946 – Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter ( Pink Floyd and Stars ) ( d. 2006 )

* 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboard player and songwriter ( Pink Floyd ) ( d. 2008 )

Liverpool fans featured in the Pink Floyd song " Fearless ", in which they sang excerpts from " You'll Never Walk Alone ".

The group won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy ( previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix ) in 1971.

His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music.

* 1946 – David Gilmour, British musician ( Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild and Deep End )

* Chris Thomas, the producer, whose credits include The Beatles, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd ( mixed The Dark Side of the Moon ), the Sex Pistols and INXS.

* Brian Humphries, the recording engineer, who started engineering Nirvana before going on to work with Traffic, Black Sabbath, McDonald and Giles and Pink Floyd ( eventually engineering their acclaimed Wish You Were Here and Animals albums ).

It was pioneered by musicians including The Beatles, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, emerging as a genre during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United Kingdom and United States, such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Doors and Pink Floyd.

However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).

The Rolling Stones responded to Sgt Pepper later in the year with Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Pink Floyd produced what is usually seen as their best psychedelic work The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.

Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia went on to create progressive rock in the 1970s, including Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and members of Yes.

* " Quicksilver ", an instrumental from the Soundtrack from the Film More, by Pink Floyd

Influences include David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana and the Beatles.

Relocated from central London in 1966, the studios played host to many of rock and pop's greatest stars down the decades, from The Beatles, who recorded the original tracks of " All You Need Is Love " in Barnes, to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Nilsson, The Verve, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Madonna and Björk.

Musicians who exemplified this era include The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, and, in their early years, Chicago.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour ), Small Faces (" Itchycoo Park "), Eric Burdon & The Animals ( Winds of Change ), The Doors ( The Doors and Strange Days ), Jefferson Airplane ( Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's ), Pink Floyd ( The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ), Love ( Forever Changes ), Cream ( Disraeli Gears ), The Rolling Stones ( Their Satanic Majesties Request ), The Who ( The Who Sell Out ), The Velvet Underground ( The Velvet Underground & Nico ), Procol Harum ( Procol Harum ), and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( Are You Experienced?

In addition, members of Oasis have cited The Stone Roses, T. Rex, Sex Pistols, Slade, Small Faces, The Who, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The La's, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, R. E. M., Humble Pie, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, The Kinks, The Jam, Pink Floyd, The Verve, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, and The Smiths as an influence or inspiration.

It was in Los Angeles that Kravitz was first introduced to rock music, listening to Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Cream, and The Who.

His stepfather introduced him to Led Zeppelin, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Pink Floyd at an early age.

In the mid-2000s, a rise in popularity of hard rock music combining classic rock elements with psychedelia, heavy metal and modern hard rock came to prominence among the Millennial Generation and others, with such bands as Wolfmother, The Sword, Jet and Buckcherry becoming very successful using methods of past bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

Many of these groups began their musical careers with little or no awareness of ( or interest in ) rock and roll: exposure to the increasingly radical and innovative music of the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, for example, led members of groups like Can and Kraftwerk to embrace popular music for the first time.

While booking many of the same bands that had played the Electric Circus, Graham particularly used the venue — and its West Coast counterpart — to establish in the US British bands such as The Who, Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Led Zeppelin.

In November and December 1967 the group took part in another package tour around the UK, playing two shows a night over sixteen days as part of an all-star bill that included The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Outer Limits, Amen Corner and the then BBC Radio 1 DJ, Pete Drummond.

Founder member Mike Badger has named Captain Beefheart as The La's ' main influence and the band have also cited artists such as Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, James Brown, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix as influences.

In the mid-1960s, The Fillmore Auditorium became the focal point for psychedelic music and counterculture in general, with such acts as John Mahon, The Grateful Dead, The Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Byrds, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Carlos Santana, The Allman Brothers Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, and British acts The Who, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Cream all performing at the venue.

Psychedelic rock from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Pink Floyd grew significantly in popularity.

Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, Blue Cheer, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Stone Garden and the Grateful Dead as " acid rock " in his book about Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

The Dubliners also gained popularity amongst famous musicians such as Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, who were all self-proclaimed Dubliners fans.

Solos can take place in the intro, such as " Voodoo Child ( Slight Return )" by Jimi Hendrix, " Since I've Been Loving You " by Led Zeppelin, " One " by Metallica, " Lazy " by Deep Purple, " I Want It All " by Queen, " Johnny B. Goode " by Chuck Berry, " Don't Take Me Alive " by Steely Dan, " Raised on Rock by the Scorpions and " Wish You Were Here " by Pink Floyd.

David Bowie, Status Quo, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd all performed there.

Many rock legends are featured in classic photos and footage during a montage scene, including Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Iggy Pop, The Who, Rush, The Clash, Nirvana, AC / DC, Black Sabbath, Yes, and David Bowie

Others bands who played at the Roundhouse during this period included Gass, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Zoot Money's Dantalian's Chariot, David Bowie, The Sinceros, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Incredible String Band, The Doors with Jefferson Airplane, Ramones, The Clash, Elkie Brooks, and Motörhead who appeared at the Roundhouse on July 20, 1975.

Under Chandler's guidance, despite only having one single released, they toured with groups such as Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, The Move and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, as well as Eric Burdon and the Animals.