The early Pink Floyd embraced the unexpected and the concept of being, as drummer Nick Mason put it, “more than just a pop group”. They arrived in Rome to start recording in November ’69.Īntonioni’s 1966 movie Blow-Up had been a clumsy portrayal of Swinging London, and Zabriskie Point was a drama about US student radicals fighting ‘the man’, blowing stuff up and having lots of sex. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni had commissioned Pink Floyd to score his next film, Zabriskie Point. An album that ended with a cow in a field in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire began more than a year before in Rome.
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