Pink Floyd's original guitarist Bob Klose left the band to become a photographer.
Nick Mason is the only band member to appear on every Pink Floyd release, in their 28 years of recording music.
At one point, the band was called Tea Set, and were performing with another band also called Tea Set. Syd Barrett's solution was to change the band's name to The Pink Floyd Sound, after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. They later turned into simply Pink Floyd.
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Alan Parsons won a Grammy Award for his production work on 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon".
Pink Floyd turned down Stanley Kubrick's offer to provide music for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Syd Barrett, was kicked out of the band because he had mental problems and was becoming a problem. David Gilmour replaced him.
There is a flying, inflatable pig on the cover of 1977's "Animals". The 40-foot helium creation escaped it's tethers on the second day of the photo shoot, flew into flight lanes of Heathrow Airport, and caused havoc for several planes. Eventually, the pig landed in a farm outside of Kent.
In 2008 a similar pig escaped Roger Waters show in southern California.
