Biografia

Attended the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture, where he met future band mates Nick Mason and Roger Waters. He left after a year.

Named his favourite albums as "Music From Big Pink" by The Band, "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" by Jeff Beck, "Appalachian Spring: Bernstein Conducts Copland" by Aaron Copland, "Porgy and Bess" by Miles Davis, "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" by Brian Eno and David Byrne, "Passion" by Peter Gabriel, "The Royal Scam" by Steely Dan, "Remain In Light" by Talking Heads, "Symphony Number 3" by 'G=F3recki' and "The Colour Of Spring" by Talk Talk.

Reinstated into Pink Floyd in 1987, though due to legal wrangling, his photograph didn't appear in the original artwork for the "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" album.

He was forced to leave Pink Floyd during "The Wall" recording sessions in the fall of 1979. However, he was paid as a session musician for the band's 1980-1981 tour of the album. Due to to financial loss of the costly concerts, he was the only member of Pink Floyd to earn money from the shows.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Pink Floyd) in 1996.

[about Pink Floyd's 1975 record 'Wish You Were Here'] I think it's our best record. I will listen to that record for pleasure, and there aren't many other Floyd records that I can say that about

There was this big personality clash between me and Roger (Roger Waters), and at the end of the day I realised that I couldn't work with this person anyway - so I left.

It's a mistake thinking that drugs supplied Pink Floyd with the inspiration. The ones who took drugs were the ones who came to see the shows.

I could quite happily give you ten Miles Davis records as my ten favourite records of all time. The first music I ever heard was classical, because I was growing up in the days before rock'n'roll, but then I was exposed to jazz on radio stations and started listening to the more traditional players like Humphrey Lyttelton and Kenny Ball. Then I discovered Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue album and got very excited. Porgy And Bess is a brilliant record - the nearest thing to hearing a trumpet being made to sound like the human voice. I have to put this record on from beginning to end, because it stops you dead in your tracks. People might be surprised to hear me being so infatuated with jazz, but the influences in The Floyd (Pink Floyd) came from lots of different areas. Syd (Syd Barrett) was more into Bo Diddley; I had the more classical approach. If I was forced to pick an all-time favourite record, this would probably be it.

As far as rock guitarists go he's (Jeff Beck) got to be my all-time hero. He started as a blues guitarist just like Clapton (Eric Clapton), but he's investigated the possibilities of the instrument much more. You probably won't know this, but when Syd (Syd Barrett) left Pink Floyd we actually asked Jeff Beck to join, he was our first choice. He was doing OK at the time so he turned us down. There's one track on Guitar Shop called Where Were You? that's just this beautiful, melodic guitar sequence. I loved it so much that I took that feel for an instrumental called Sweet July on my new solo album. I wanted Beck to play on it but he turned me down. Again.