Pink Floyd at the UFO Club - 1966
Mason, Waters, Barrett and Wright live at an early gig on Tottenham Court Road.
Pink Floyd's 14 Hour Technicolour dream
1967
This was an event organised in aid of counter culture newspaper The International Times and was held at London's Alexandra Palace on 29 April 1967. Underground darlings Pink Floyd (who were yet to release their first album) were one of a supposed 41 acts on the bill playing to a chemically stimulated audience of 7000 or so. Among the acts were Arthur Brown, Soft Machine and Yoko Ono, while in the audience were John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix (though memories of the event are sketchy for many of those involved). The Floyd made it to the stage at about 5am, having driven back from an earlier gig in Holland. Hoppy Hopkins: "The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was a big event and a financial disaster. Most people were on drugs of one sort or another. It was a crest of a wave. It wasn't fully understood, but it was a landmark event".
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Sean Arthur Joyce, New Denver, British Columbia CA
The Floyd, for all their fractitious family politics, are and always will be, a tremendous gift to the world. Proof positive of what science fiction might call teletransportation and U2 now call 'elevation' and Blake would probably have called 'innocence'. And Bowie, with the English gospel apocalypto of 'Five Years' has been wistfully, heavily with me since I first heard him after wandering around in the snow of a Kootenay mountainside ripped on mushrooms. The haunting perfection, the modern masterpiece of 'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. Never mind that now he sometimes seems lost in echoes of himself, Bowie was and is a master of personas who can put them on like most people change socks—a true master, a bard. Like Morrison, like Hendrix, like Lennon, like....an entire generation of masters. An incredible light in the darkness.Salman, London
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Fantastic series, great website
Barry Miles and John "Hoppy" Hopkins
Organisers
They organised it as a fund-raising concert for the International Times.
Peter Whitehead
Filmmaker
The concert was part-documented in a film called 'Tonite Let's All Make Love in London'.