Pink Floyd (UK, 60s-00s)

This program is held in Hungarian.

Not specifically a progressive rock band, but the musical endeavors of Pink Floyd exhibited similar aspirations. The band, formed at the end of 1965, initially played rhythm and blues and, alongside Soft Machine, was one of the most important representatives of the emerging London psychedelic scene at that time. Its leader and main composer, Syd Barrett, however, indulged in mind-expanding, brainwashing pills to such an excessive degree that his bandmates eventually decided to let him go. His place was taken by David Gilmour, with whom the band embarked on a completely different path. Pink Floyd's music has always relied on human imagination: captivating its listeners with its dignified flow, lyricism, pathos, and sudden shifts in sound, and because of the impact it had on the receptive consciousness, its musical world became known as space rock or sci-fi rock.

A series of rock history lectures from blues through Elvis to the seventies. In 2022, a regular monthly program started at the MZH Multimedia Library and Club under the title: Rock and Roll Academy. The Rock and Roll Academy presents the most important processes and performers in international pop history. Rock and roll, somewhat simplified, is the result of a unique cultural-historical union: when the musical traditions of black slaves brought from Africa (blues) and white settlers emigrating from Europe (country) met and continuously mingled on a third continent, America. Moreover, all this took place in a society that was radically transforming, following technical development and the related industrialization and urbanization. In this series' seventh season (spring 2025), we will closely examine the social, cultural, and musical events occurring in the United Kingdom at the turn of the sixties and seventies.