![]() The letter informs Floyd’s management that their contract with the BBC is cancelled and could they get an explanation of who “freaked out”? The author is unfamiliar with the term, stating they’re repeating what they heard other members said in the studio. A letter from the BBC about a member of Floyd “freaking out” during a sessionīooked to perform on Jfor BBC Radio’s Light Programme – the only place to hear new pop music before Radio One launched a couple of months later – this letter details when a member of the group legged it during their first number. Don’t forget to look up as there’s lots more overhead in this space.ĥ. Although we’re still in the first room of the exhibition, it’s such a Syd thing and so evocative of Cambridge-student innocence that the red bike (with basket) that he was seen out and about on in his later years dangles from the ceiling here. ’ I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like…’ Well, Syd did. This was the shape of experimentation to come. Clustered around Gilmour’s Hoffner Club 60 guitar is the obligatory Burt Weedon book, Apache sheet music and a primitive, 1967 black hunk of metal, the AstroTone pedal with three pots for Volume, Tone and Fuzz. In an ‘early years’ case there’s a wealth of pop-cultural material that inspired the young band members. Nick Mason loading Pink Floyd's Bedford Van (Image credit: © Pink Floyd Archive) ![]()
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