Remember when you were young? Pink Floyd ‘s members (with the exception of drummer Nick Mason ) don’t seem to relish the thought, but those opening lyrics to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” perfectly evoke the spirit of Pink Floyd’s 50th anniversary box set, a 360-degree retrospective of the tip of the band’s pyramid. It’s a time capsule anthologizing one of the strangest times in the quartet’s lives.

Half a century removed from its conception, it’s easy to forget how much pressure the band felt to follow up their breakthrough, The Dark Side of the Moon , with anything half as good. David Gilmour once said the band felt “creatively trapped” at the time. But they nevertheless rallied to compose a record filled with legends and martyrs and miners for truth and delusion all caught in

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