@pinkfloyd ’s Animals was released on this day in January 1977. You can read the story of the problematic cover shoot and the time Roger Waters almost spat on the floor of his hotel suite in front of me in my book, Pink Floyd: Shine On - The Definitive Oral History, available everywhere you buy books #Pinkfloyd #Animals #hipgnosis #hipgnosiscovers #pigs
“I love this book. The narrative device that Mark Blake has employed works so well that it’s like watching a great documentary in your head.” — Lee Harris, guitarist Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets
“Bitchily entertaining” — Irish Independent
“Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album has just had its 50th birthday, and if you want a candid insight into its creation – and everything else Floyd – then you can’t go wrong with Mark Blake’s new book, Pink Floyd Shine On.Stating a biography to be “definitive” tends to be a grand claim, but Shine On lives up to its subtitle” — Buzz Magazine
“A brisk account of the career of the beat curious Cambridge eccentrics who added whimsy, experimentation and theatrical excess to rock ‘n’ roll 8/10” — Uncut
“Mark Blake has done it again - another essential Pink Floyd book, full of new information, and a great companion to Pigs Might Fly” — Brain Damage, Pink Floyd News Resource
“Righteous and exhaustive account of one of the biggest bands of all time. If oral histories are generally more about sculpting than writing, then Pink Floyd Shine On is the Michelangelo’s David of the genre 5/5” — Record Collector
“The whole brilliant, sorry saga rendered through an echo-chamber of voices… the breadth of the interviews is impressive, the power struggles endless, and the anecdotes frequently telling 4/5” — Mojo
“Informative, funny, bitchy and sad. I love it” — David Quantick
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Delighted to have been asked to write some words for this. Tasty new mix of @thinlizzy ’s Nightlife and Fighting albums. Out now #Thin Lizzy #phillynott #Scottgorham #brianrobertson #briandowney #Nightlife #Fighting #vertigo #jimfitzpatrick #hardrock #twinguitars
The trouble with oral history books is there’s a temptation to rush when reading. Do not rush Shine On by @markrblake , Floyd fans. This is one to savour. So much Floydian goodness between these pages: thoroughly research and tons of new insights. Highly recommended.
New @mojo4music out today with my @therollingstones story, a 5-star appraisal of the @pinkfloyd Wish You Were Here 50 boxset AND Shine On in Mojo’s books of the year. #rollingstones #pinkfloyd #wishyouwerehere #blackandblue #mickjagger #keithrichards #davidgilmour #rogerwaters #sydbarrett #newmodern #mojo #oldmenwithguitars
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