Pink Floyd (part 2): Simple But Not Banal
Tony Stewart, NME, 19 February 1972
LAST WEEK, NICK Mason talked at length about the evolution of Pink Floyd up to the Atom Heart Mother stage. The policy of the band has never been formulated, and from wanting to be rock and roll stars, things just somehow happened, and Floyd established themselves as Britain's most creative band.
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