Glenn Povey

Glenn Povey

Glenn Povey was the founder Pink Floyd's Brain Damage fanzine the author of numerous books including Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: In the Flesh: The Complete Performance History, Pink Floyd in North America 1966-1983, Pink Floyd in Objects and The Treasures of Pink Floyd.

Latest articles by Glenn Povey

Illustration featuring visual elements associated with Pink Floyd

Roger Waters had a little black book with his poems in – and he turned them into a massive, multimedia masterpiece that ultimately destroyed Pink Floyd

By Glenn Povey published

How Roger Waters and Pink Floyd took some "unlistenable" demos and built The Wall

Albums
A re-creation of the soldier featured on the back cover of The Final Cut album, during a photo call for the Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains at the V&A in London in May 2017

The Final Cut by Pink Floyd explored themes of loss, disillusionment, and the human cost of conflict: It was also popular with chickens

By Glenn Povey published

20 things you didn't know about Pink Floyd's The Final Cut

Albums
Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett and some psychedelic patterns

Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd went on tour: knife-throwing, guitar smashing and acid breakdowns followed

By Glenn Povey published

Syd Barrett was catatonic. Jimi Hendrix was encouraging Keith Emerson to throw knives at him. Lemmy was one of the roadies. Welcome to the cosmic variety show

Concerts & Shows
Pink Floyd in 1973

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon: 20 things you didn't know

By Glenn Povey published

We racked our brains, canvassed experts and drained the internet to bring you 20 things you didn’t know about Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, the fourth-best-selling album of all time

Albums
Pink Floyd - The 50 Greatest Albums

The 50 greatest Pink Floyd songs ever

By Fraser Lewry, Rob Hughes, Jerry Ewing, Henry Yates, Hugh Fielder, Mark Blake, Daryl Easlea, Tim Batcup, Glenn Povey last updated

From underground clubs to sold-out stadiums, Pink Floyd's path through rock has been revolutionary and stunningly successful. Here are their 50 best songs

Tracks & Singles
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Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here: Inside the album that nearly ended it all

By Glenn Povey last updated

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here was the product of unfinished sessions, shambolic live shows and band alienation. Here, the band recall the protracted birth of the album that nearly ended it all

Interviews