Pink Floyd have a strong association with Cambridge.
Founding members went to local schools.
This website unpicks some of the locations they are connected with as a sort of walking tour of the city.
Band members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour were raised in Cambridge, and many of their Cambridge friends, including girlfriends, roadies and album cover designers Storm Thorgerson and ‘Po’ Powell, became part of the Pink Floyd extended creative family. In London they met up with Nick Mason and Rick Wright. But while students, here in Cambridge—they forged the unique Pink Floyd sound against the backdrop of the late ‘60’s counter-culture and succeeding decades.There are connections with particular places in the city and songs:
King’s College Chapel, which has a lawn in back where Roger Waters said inspired “the lunatic is on the grass“, (from the song Brain Damage) and Pink Floyd played a May Ball gig—Which “... went down quite well. Everyone was pissed,”David Gilmour went to the Perse School on Hills Road, and back in June 2022, Chris Kington led a tour for the local GA Cambridge Branch where he pointed out Syd Barrett's home - also on Hills Road.
One of the places where they are linked with is a pub called The Flying Pig - just further down the road.
Back in 2022, there were fears that the pub would be demolished.
For a long time there was a plan to try to save the pub. It is now in an incongruous position, dwarfed by the huge redevelopment behind it.
The final link of course is with the album 'Animals'. More to come on that in December...
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