12. Pink FloydWish You Were Here

"What IS this?’ I thought when I first heard it. I remember I was in Norma and Martin’s, 1975, babysitting [their daughter] Eliza. She was the kind of kid who’d lie on the floor in town and be screaming, kicking her legs, I’m telling you! Anyway, Norma and Martin had just got a new stereo which was a proper event – they hadn’t had anything since 1963, and there’d been a lot of advances in technology between 1963 and 1975. To hear how Pink Floyd used that knowledge of those advances – that super quiet bit at the beginning, then building the sound, and their music louder, and louder – they were a group that existed in that new sort of space. I found that extraordinary.