eliot kennedy wrote coming back to life pink floyd.
who wrote coming back to life pink floyd?
eliot kennedy
bullet::::- pink floyd — playing under multiple names, including "tea set", when the band found themselves on the same bill as another band with the same name, syd barrett came up with the alternative name the pink floyd sound, after two blues musicians, pink anderson and floyd council. for a time after this they oscillated between "the tea set" and "the pink floyd sound", with the latter name eventually winning out. the "sound" was dropped fairly quickly, but the definite article was still used regularly until 1970. the group's uk releases during the syd barrett era credited them as "the" pink floyd as did their first two u.s. singles. the albums "more" and "ummagumma" (both 1969) credit the band as pink floyd, produced by the pink floyd, while "atom heart mother" (1970) credits the band as the pink floyd, produced by pink floyd. david gilmour is known to have referred to the group as "the" pink floyd as late as 1984.
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following the release of "the pros and cons of hitch hiking", waters publicly insisted that pink floyd would not reunite. he contacted o'rourke to discuss settling future royalty payments. o'rourke felt obliged to inform mason and gilmour, which angered waters, who wanted to dismiss him as the band's manager. he terminated his management contract with o'rourke and employed peter rudge to manage his affairs. waters wrote to emi and columbia announcing he had left the band, and asked them to release him from his contractual obligations. gilmour believed that waters left to hasten the demise of pink floyd. waters later stated that, by not making new albums, pink floyd would be in breach of contract—which would suggest that royalty payments would be suspended—and that the other band members had forced him from the group by threatening to sue him. he then went to the high court in an effort to dissolve the band and prevent the use of the pink floyd name, declaring pink floyd "a spent force creatively." when his lawyers discovered that the partnership had never been formally confirmed, waters returned to the high court in an attempt to obtain a veto over further use of the band's name. gilmour responded by issuing a carefully worded press release affirming that pink floyd would continue to exist. he later told "the sunday times": "roger is a dog in the manger and i'm going to fight him." in 2013, waters said he had failed to appreciate that the pink floyd name had commercial value independent of the band members, and was wrong to have attempted to stop the others using it.
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