Pink Floyd Shine On

“Mark Blake, have a cigar! This is a sensational book!” – Shaun Keaveny * BBC Radio 2 *
“I love this book. The narrative device that Mark Blake has employed works so well that it’s like watching a great documentary in your head.” – Lee Harris, guitarist Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets
“Bitchily entertaining” * Irish Independent *
“Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album has just had its 50th birthday, and if you want a candid insight into its creation – and everything else Floyd – then you can’t go wrong with Mark Blake’s new book, Pink Floyd Shine On.Stating a biography to be “definitive” tends to be a grand claim, but Shine On lives up to its subtitle” * Buzz Magazine *
“A brisk account of the career of the beat curious Cambridge eccentrics who added whimsy, experimentation and theatrical excess to rock ‘n’ roll 8⁄10” * Uncut *
“Mark Blake has done it again - another essential Pink Floyd book, full of new information, and a great companion to Pigs Might Fly” – Brain Damage * Pink Floyd News Resource *
“Righteous and exhaustive account of one of the biggest bands of all time. If oral histories are generally more about sculpting than writing, then Pink Floyd Shine On is the Michelangelo’s David of the genre 5/5” * Record Collector *
“The whole brilliant, sorry saga rendered through an echo-chamber of voices… the breadth of the interviews is impressive, the power struggles endless, and the anecdotes frequently telling 4/5” * Mojo *
“Informative, funny, bitchy and sad. I love it” – David Quantick
“A delve into the cracks between the well trodden paving slabs of the Floyd saga. A granular level of detail (and) a poignant sense of history becoming myth. A brand new retelling” * Prog Magazine *

Mark Blake is the world’s authority on Pink Floyd, having closely worked with the band for the past 35 years. He is the author of the bestselling Pink Floyd biography Pigs Might Fly (2007) and more recently Magnifico! The A-Z of Queen and Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac. Mark lives in London and contributes regularly to Mojo magazine.

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