Inside Out

by Nick Mason

  And if you are wondering why this piece is at the end of the book instead of appearing as the usual foreword, preface or introduction, well, it is called Inside Out…

  THANKS

  First, thanks to David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Richard Wright. Then, for accessing their memories for me and giving encouragement: Douglas Adams, Chris Adamson, Peter Barnes, Joe Boyd, Marc Brickman, Lindsay Corner, Jon Corpe, Nigel Eastaway, Bob Ezrin, Jenny Fabian, Mark Fenwick, Mark Fisher, Peter Gabriel, Ron Geesin, A.A. Gill, Nick Griffiths, James Guthrie, Tony Howard, Andy Jackson, Peter Jenner, Howard Jones, Andrew King, Bob Klose, Mick Kluczynski, Norman Lawrence, Mike Leonard, Lindy Mason, Lise Mayer, Clive Metcalf, Dave Mills, Bryan Morrison, Steve O’Rourke, Alan Parker, Alan Parsons, Guy Pratt, Gerald Scarfe, Nick Sedgwick, Norman Smith, Tony Smith, Phil Taylor, Chris Thomas, Vernon Thompson, Storm Thorgerson, Judy Trim, Snowy White, Robbie Williams, Peter Wynne Willson and Juliette Wright.

  For helping the book to become a reality, thanks, first and foremost, to Philip Dodd, editor, amanuensis and compulsive coffee maker, who has seen this through since the really early days, and sometimes been required to get out and push when it seemed all was lost. Also Michael Dover at Weidenfeld & Nicolson whose enthusiasm for the book ensured it got finished, and all the publishing team, including Jennie Condell, Kirsty Dunseath, Justin Hunt, Jenny Page, David Rowley, Mark Rusher and Mark Stay; picture researcher Emily Hedges; and David Eldridge and Two Associates.

  For their help along the way: archivist and keeper of the artefacts Stephanie Roberts; researchers Silvia Balducci, Jan Hogevold, Jane Jackson, Lidia Rosolia, Jane Sen and Madelaine Smith; the Ten Tenths team of Julia Grinter, Stella Jackson, Michelle Stranis-Oppler and Paula Webb; Jonathan Green for allowing me to use his own research; and for other assistance and favours Elina Arapoglu, Jane Caporal, Paul Du Noyer, Vernon Fitch, Matt Johns, Suzenna Kredenser, Chris Leith, Ray Mudie, Olympus Cameras, Tom O’Rourke, Shuki Sen, Rob Shreeve, Di Skinner, Paul Trynka, Sarah Wallace and Alan Williams.

  Throughout the book I have been very sparing with name checks. Given that literally hundreds of people have worked with and for us over the years (we had a crew of more than 200 on the last tour) it became impossible to credit or mention everyone. Profuse apologies to all unnamed heroes or heroines.

  This book is for Annette,

  co-pilot, co-driver and when required perfect rock wife,

  and also for the children, primarily Chloe, Holly, Guy and Cary,

  but also for all the long-suffering offspring of the band,

  management and crew.

  CHRONOLOGY

  NB Release dates refer to UK releases

  A Miscellany of Dates & Occurrences

  1943

  28 July 1943

  Rick Wright born

  6 September 1943

  Roger Waters born

  1944

  27 January 1944

  Nick Mason born

  18 February 1944

  Eric Fletcher Waters dies at Anzio

  1945

  8 May 1945

  VE Day – the end of the Second World War in Europe

  6 August 1945

  Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  1946

  6 January 1946

  Syd Barrett born

  6 March 1946

  David Gilmour born

  31 May 1946

  London’s Heathrow airport opens

  1947

  14 October 1947

  Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier in the X-1

  1948

  1948

  First 33 1/3 long-playing records released by Columbia Record Co.

  30 January 1948

  Mahatma Gandhi assassinated

  1949

  2 March 1949

  First non-stop around-the-world flight by Capt. James Gallagher in a Boeing B-50A

  1950

  1 October 1950

  First credit card issued, by Diners Club

  1951

  May 1951

  The Royal Festival Hall, London, is opened as part of the Festival of Britain

  July 1951

  J.D. Salinger’s Catcher In The Rye published

  1952

  15 June 1952

  Publication of The Diary Of A Young Girl, by Anne Frank

  1953

  5 February 1953

  Sweets rationing ends in the UK

  April 1953

  Brigitte Bardot makes a stunning impact at the Cannes Film Festival

  29 May 1953

  Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing conquer Everest

  2 June 1953

  Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

  December 1953

  First issue of Playboy published

  1954

  6 May 1954

  Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute-mile barrier

  1955

  17 July 1955

  Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California

  30 September 1955

  James Dean dies in a car crash four weeks before the release of Rebel Without A Cause

  1956

  31 January 1956

  John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten born

  October 1956

  Elvis Presley’s Rock’n’Roll album released.

  Tommy Steele’s ‘Rock With The Caveman’ hits the UK charts

  1957

  February 1957

  Bill Haley and the Comets’ tour of the UK, the first by a rock’n’roll act

  5 September 1957

  On The Road by Jack Kerouac published

  4 October 1957

  Sputnik I, first satellite in space, launched

  1958

  1958

  First stereo recordings released

  February 1958

  CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, founded in London

  March 1958

  The first march from Aldermaston to London in support of CND

  25 March 1958

  Elvis Presley inducted into the US Army

  16 August 1958

  Madonna Ciccone born

  29 August 1958

  Michael Jackson born

  1959

  3 February 1959

  Buddy Holly dies

  26 August 1959

  Alec Issigonis’s Mini car launched

  November 1959

  The M1, Britain’s first motorway, opens, running between St Albans and Birmingham

  1960

  1 May 1960

  U-2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers brought down by Soviet Union

  6 August 1960

  Chubby Checker debuts the Twist on the Dick Clark Show

  1961

  1961

  Nick Mason passes driving test

  April 1961

  Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

  August 1961

  The Berlin Wall is erected

  1962

  10 July 1962

  Telstar communications satellite launched

  5 August 1962

  Marilyn Monroe found dead

  September 1962

  Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason start their architecture course at the Regent Street Polytechnic

  October 1962

  The Cuban Missile Crisis

  5 October 1962

  First Bond movie, Dr. No, premieres

  1963

  4 June 1963

  John Profumo, Conservative minister, resigns over a call-girl scandal

  8 August 1963

  The Great Train Robbery

  9 August 1963

  First broadcast of Ready

  Steady Go! on ITV

  7 October 1963

  First flight of the Learjet 23

  22 November 1963

  President John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  21 December 1963

  First appearance of the Daleks on Doctor Who

  1964

  1 January 1964

 
; First broadcast of Top Of The Pops on BBC TV

  May 1964

  Mods and Rockers battle in Brighton

  Easter 1964

  Offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline starts broadcasting

  October 1964

  Harold Wilson’s Labour government comes to power

  1965

  March 1965

  First US combat troops sent to Vietnam

  29 July 1965

  The Beatles film Help! released

  August 1965

  First outdoor Notting Hill Carnival in London

  15 August 1965

  The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium to a then-record audience of over 55,000 fans

  October 1965

  Tea Set play at Libby and Rosie January’s birthday party

  25 October 1965

  The Beatles receive their MBEs from the Queen

  1 November 1965

  First concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco

  1966

  17 January 1966

  Simon and Garfunkel release Sounds Of Silence

  March 1966

  Pink Floyd play at the Marquee Club’s Spontaneous Underground event

  29 June 1966

  First British credit card, the Barclaycard, is issued

  30 July 1966

  England win the football World Cup

  8 September 1966

  First telecast of Star Trek

  30 September 1966

  First Pink Floyd gig at All Saints Church Hall, Powis Gardens, London

  15 October 1966

  IT launch party at the Roundhouse

  31 October 1966

  Blackhill Enterprises set up with Peter Jenner and Andrew King

  4 November 1966

  John Lennon says the Beatles are ‘more popular than Jesus Christ right now’

  29 November 1966

  Last appearance at All Saints Church Hall

  3 December 1966

  ‘Psychodelphia vs Ian Smith’ event at the Roundhouse

  12 December 1966

  ‘You’re Joking’ event at the Royal Albert Hall

  23 December 1966

  UFO club opening night

  26 December 1966

  Cultural Revolution declared in China

  1967

  6 January 1967

  ‘Freak Out Ethel’ event at Seymour Hall, London

  11–12 January 1967

  Recording session at Sound Techniques Studio in Chelsea includes ‘Arnold Layne’

  17 January 1967

  Commonwealth Institute show

  12 February 1967

  Keith Richards’ home at Redlands in Sussex raided by police

  1 March 1967

  Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London, opened

  11 March 1967

  ‘Arnold Layne’ released

  17 March 1967

  Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Purple Haze’ released

  1 April 1967

  EMI press launch

  29–30 April 1967

  The ‘14-Hour Technicolour Dream’ free speech festival at Alexandra Palace, London

  May 1967

  Procul Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ enters the UK singles charts

  12 May 1967

  ‘Games For May’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

  June 1967

  The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band released

  16 June 1967

  ‘See Emily Play’ released

  16–18 June 1967

  Monterey International Pop Music Festival takes place

  27 June 1967

  First automated cash machine installed at Barclays Bank, Enfield

  6 July 1967

  First Top Of The Pops appearance, performing ‘See Emily Play’

  28 July 1967

  Last UFO show at the original Tottenham Court Road location

  5 August 1967

  THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN released

  12 August 1967

  7th National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor

  30 September 1967

  The BBC launches Radio 1. The first track played (by DJ Tony Blackburn) is The Move’s ‘Flowers In The Rain’

  3 October 1967

  Chuck Yeager sets new air speed record of Mach 6.7 in the X-15

  9 October 1967

  Che Guevara shot dead by Bolivian government troops

  3 November 1967

  First tour of the USA opens at the Winterland, San Francisco

  9 November 1967

  First issue of Rolling Stone magazine published

  3 December 1967

  First successful heart transplant carried out by Dr Christian Barnard

  14 December 1967

  Start of the Jimi Hendrix tour, at the Royal Albert Hall

  18 December 1967

  ‘Apples And Oranges’ released

  22 December 1967

  ‘Christmas On Earth Continued’ event at Olympia Exhibition Hall, London

  24 December 1967

  Apollo 8 enters moon orbit. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Williams Anders become the first humans to see the dark side of the moon

  1968

  12 January 1968

  First appearance of Pink Floyd as a five-piece with David Gilmour

  4 April 1968

  Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

  6 April 1968

  Syd’s departure officially announced

  12 April 1968

  ‘It Would Be So Nice’ released

  29 April 1968

  The Broadway premiere of Hair

  May 1968

  Student-led riots in Paris

  28 May 1968

  Kylie Minogue born

  5 June 1968

  Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles, California

  29 June 1968

  A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS released. Hyde Park free concert

  8 July 1968

  Second tour of the USA starts

  15–17 August 1968

  Scene Club, New York City

  20 August 1968

  Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the ‘Prague Spring’

  27 October 1968

  Anti-Vietnam war demonstration outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, broken up by police

  26 November 1968

  Cream’s farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall

  17 December 1968

  ‘Point Me At The Sky’ released

  1969

  2 January 1969

  Nick Mason marries Lindy Rutter

  9 February 1969

  Boeing 747 makes maiden flight

  2 March 1969

  Concorde makes maiden flight

  14 April 1969

  ‘More Furious Madness From The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes’ event at the Royal Festival Hall, London

  13 May 1969

  Premiere of More at Cannes Film Festival

  26 June 1969

  Royal Albert Hall, London, final show of first major UK tour for two years

  5 July 1969

  The Rolling Stones play in Hyde Park, dedicating their performance to Brian Jones

  21 July 1969

  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon – BBC use Floyd music for moon landing

  15–17 August 1969

  The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival

  29–31 August 1969

  The Isle of Wight Festival

  5 October 1969

  First BBC broadcast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus

  25 October 1969

  UMMAGUMMA released

  6 December 1969

  The Rolling Stones appear at the Altamont Speedway, California

  1970

  3 January 1970

  Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs released

  5 February 1970

  Zabriskie Point premieres

  10 April 1970
r />   Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles are splitting up

  16 April 1970

  Apollo 13 returns safely to earth

  4 May 1970

  Four anti-Vietnam War protestors shot dead during demonstrations on the campus at Kent State University, Ohio

  27 June 1970

  Pink Floyd appear at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

  18 July 1970

  Second Hyde Park free concert

  26 July 1970

  Start of Riviera mini-tour at the Festival International Jazz d’Antibes

  27 July 1970

  Kenneth Tynan’s Oh, Calcutta! revue opens in London

  18 September 1970

  Jimi Hendrix dies

  19–20 September 1970

  The first Glastonbury Festival (then known as the Pilton Festival) is held

  October 1970

  Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar album released

  4 October 1970

  Janis Joplin dies

  10 October 1970

  ATOM HEART MOTHER released

  14 November 1970

  Syd Barrett’s Barrett released

  1971

  15 February 1971

  Britain changes to a decimal currency

  2 April 1971

  Chloe Mason born

  8 May 1971

  Arsenal win their first ever double as FA Cup and League Champions

  12 May 1971

  Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Moreno de Macias

  14 May 1971

  RELICS released

  15 May 1971

  Crystal Palace, London, garden party

  20 May 1971

  Philips release first video cassette recorder

  2 June 1971

  Oz obscenity trial opens

  3 July 1971

  Jim Morrison dies

  1 August 1971

  Concert For Bangladesh in New York, organised by George Harrison

  6–7 August 1971

  Hakone Festival, Japan

  13 August 1971

  First Australian tour begins

  4–7 October 1971

  Filming for Live At Pompeii

  10 October 1971

  Reconstructed London Bridge opened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona

  5 November 1971

  MEDDLE released

  1972

  24 January 1972

  Second World War finally ends for Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi, after 27 years in hiding on Guam island

  17 February 1972

  Rainbow Theatre, London, press premiere of The Dark Side Of The Moon