With a recording canon hailed in the annals of popular music, Pink Floyd’s astonishing run of world-captivating 1970s albums did much to widen the scope of just what a commercially successful rock record could sound like.
But, while the band would eventually shed some of the more outré ideas that rippled through much of their earlier, pre-fame work, a potential road not taken could have found Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright sailing even further out into the uncharted realms of the musical ocean.
Oddly enough, the hypothetical record that was to follow-up 1973’s mega-seller The Dark Side of the Moon was first planned as being one that shunned conventional musical instruments entirely.
