Pink Floyd: The Division Bell; Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
Tom Graves, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1994
IS THIS still really Pink Floyd? That seems to be the question, as it has been since Roger Waters left the band in 1985 to dip deeper into the sci-fi soup. Waters has since missed no opportunity to slag his former band mates as incompetent fakes. He would suggest that he was Pink Floyd, although judging from his overwrought, concept-burdened solo albums, that notion should be put to rest.
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