Product Description

REVISED AND EXPANDED TO BRING THE FLOYD SAGA UP TO DATE THROUGH THE 90s AND UP TO THE PRESENT DAY - WITH THE FULL STORY OF THE LIVE8 REUNION

Pink Floyd are one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time: from multi-million seller Dark Side of The Moon to international mega-hit The Wall and beyond. Floyd were torn apart by disputes and law suits - Roger Waters quit leaving Dave Gilmour to surprise everyone by touring with a new Floyd line-up to massive success. Now for one show, Floyd are back together.
From the summer of love to the winter of discontent and from punk’s year zero to the age of the Rave, Pink Floyd continued their long strange trip. Saucerful of Secrets is the only book to draw on exclusive interviews with virtually all the main players – only Roger declined to contribute – and captures in black and white and day-glo the band’s life and times while providing a compelling history of one of the richest strands in British rock.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #431848 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Classic Rock
The complete Floyd story. *****

Q
All but definitive. **** Q

The Guardian Guide
Schaffner mixes background gossip with production notes.

Customer Reviews

This is it!
I have been a Floydian since 1971, but my quest to learn more about Floyd was born of a need to produce dialog for a Floyd show that I devised for South Africa. (Floyd have never been here) To this end, I began gathering all things Floyd.
This included nearly every Album (not duplicating too much) and every book I could lay my hands on! Most Floyd books obviously contain similar information. This book however, is well written, contains amazing detail (especially about Syd) and has got to be THE ONE!
Sadly, I read that Nicholas Schaffner had died recently and so I suppose that someone else has added the Live 8 sections to the updated version (I bought my 1995 version in 2002)
After reading "The "Pink Floyd" Odyssey: Saucerful of Secrets. I found "Inside out" by Nick Mason to be less than I had hoped for. (That would be more "inside information")
If you need ONE book on Pink Floyd ... "The "Pink Floyd" Odyssey: Saucerful of Secrets by Nicholas Schaffner is it.

An Adequate Floyd but Sparse Syd Barrett History
The above review is pretty accurate when it come to The Floyd. However, the book is mostly heresay when it comes to Syd, passed down over the years from almost anyone who met him during his life. To have a clearer understanding about Syd, read "Lost In The Woods", "Madcap", And "Crazy Diamond". When you're finished with these three books you'll have a better understanding of Syd"s decline into his own little world. Most who knew him felt he would have eventually fallen into madness even without his high doses of LSD.
I feel I must warn you, if you develope a compassion for Syd you will feel somewhat depressed. Had he not hurried his decline with LSD who knows what Syd might have accomplished in the music arena!