Pink Floyd Shine On

The Definitive Oral History

Mark Blake

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New Modern
11 November 2025

Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Guitar; Biography: arts & entertainment; Oral history

The definitive oral history of Pink Floyd as told by friends, associates, family members and the band themselves through exclusive, never before published interviews.

Bestselling music author Mark Blake has been an associate and collaborator of Pink Floyd for over thirty years. Shine On takes on the behemoth task of capturing the most comprehensive history of the band ever compiled, drawing on huge amounts of new, archive and unpublished interview material with Gilmour, Waters, Mason and Wright. No other writer has interviewed the members of Pink Floyd as often nor as thoroughly, which is candidly apparent in this textured, gripping and consistently surprising biography. For the first time, the band's story is told as an oral history with each chapter presented through the words the band, their friends, contemporaries and supporting musicians. The accessible structure and high level of detail means that the narrative is both approachable to casual readers and magnetic to the committed.

Shine On is comprised of a significant amount of previously unpublished material, including a rare interview with Rosemary Breen lamenting that her younger brother Roger, aka Syd Barrett, should have never become a musician as well as exclusive new interviews with the band and their associates, reflecting on their enduring legacy and rather more complicated recent twists and turns in the bands story.

Shine On is a skilful retelling of one of the most turbulent and enduring groups in rock music history, a complex history that only someone as skilled and insightful as Blake can navigate.

By: Mark Blake
Imprint: New Modern
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781917923071
ISBN 10: 1917923074
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 11 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Blake is the world's authority on Pink Floyd having closely worked with the band for the past 35 years. He is the author of the bestselling Pink Floyd biography Pigs Might Fly (2007) and more recently Magnifico! The A-Z of Queen and Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac. Mark lives in London and contributes regularly to Mojo magazine

Reviews for Pink Floyd Shine On: The Definitive Oral History

“Informative, funny, bitchy and sad. I love it” — David Quantick “A delve into the cracks between the well trodden paving slabs of the Floyd saga. A granular level of detail (and) a poignant sense of history becoming myth. A brand new retelling” — Prog Magazine