In the Mitan of the 1970s, the death of these black American bluesmen in the two States of Caroline went unnoticed. The first, Pinkney “Pink” Anderson, let go of his guitar on October 12, 1974. He was followed, on May 9, 1976, by Floyd Council, also victim of a heart attack. These representatives of the Piedmont Blues – named after a micro -region of the Appalachian chain – had probably never met, but their first names are however unwavering.
Pink Floyd. This is how a group of four young British people and rhythm’n’blues had been baptized earlier. At the time, in 1965, they studied architecture or plastic arts in London. Two of them, the singer and guitarist Roger (nicknamed “Syd”) Barrett and bassist Roger Waters, had established a friend of time when they were college students in Cambridge.
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