Music Fun Facts #1

I love everything about music. I play the guitar and since I was young I started to get to know some old bands, like Alan Parsons, AC DC, Duran Duran and so on...
But the band I like the most is Pink Floyd, so the first Music Fun Facts Post will be about Pink Floyd and all the history behind this great band, some of this facts may be new for some people.

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===================Pink Floyd Fun Facts:======================

1. Lead singer Syd Barrett named the band by fusing together the names of two East Coast blues men known for their bass-driven finger-picking style of play – Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
   

2. The Dark Side of the Moon is the third best-selling album of all time, and the longest-running LP on the Billboard 200, charting over 800 weeks straight. Enough copies have been sold that 1 in 12 people in the ENTIRE WORLD own the record.
   

3. Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright all initially met as architecture students at London Polytechnic in 1963.

4. The first single of Pink Floyd – ‘Arnold Layne’ is actually based on a real person whom Roger Waters knew. That person used to steal women’s knickers and clothes from the washing lines!

5. Pink Floyd's most successful single Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 (1979) - selling more than 4 million copies worldwide - was written as a protest against rigid schooling, and boarding schools in particular.
   

6. In 1975, ex-band member Syd Barrett turned up at the recording of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' at Abbey Road studios. According to reports, he was balding and fat, and looked so terrible that Roger Waters and David Gilmour cried.

And its all for this Post , maybe in the next one (#2) I will investigate more about Pink Floyd and other great bands.
I hope you all like this post, and if you want more like this please upvote!