Crescendo

Rather than providing a blow by blow account of each and every song and gig, Mason provides a personal recollective narrative that gives the feeling of being part of the trials and tribulations of being in a band the magnitude of Pink Floyd, from recording an album to staging a huge stadium mega tour. Hardcore Floyd fanatics may lament the dearth of minutiae concerning the recording sessions but this book, taking into account the length of time chronicled, would have had to be a multi-volume work. It’s nice to know that the other members of the Floyd (Waters, Gilmour, and Rick Wright) were each given a pre publication copy of the manuscript and each turned in their suggested revisions and corrections. Mason may have regretted this decision because both Waters and Gilmour returned their copies extensively annotated with green highlighter.

	INSIDE OUT A Personal History Of Pink Floyd By Nick Mason Published by Chronicle Books Review by Ritchie Champagne
Rather than providing a blow by blow account of each and every song and gig, Mason provides a personal recollective narrative that gives the feeling of being part of the trials and tribulations of being in a band the magnitude of Pink Floyd, from recording an album to staging a huge stadium mega tour. Hardcore Floyd fanatics may lament the dearth of minutiae concerning the recording sessions but this book, taking into account the length of time chronicled, would have had to be a multi-volume work. It’s nice to know that the other members of the Floyd (Waters, Gilmour, and Rick Wright) were each given a pre publication copy of the manuscript and each turned in their suggested revisions and corrections. Mason may have regretted this decision because both Waters and Gilmour returned their copies extensively annotated with green highlighter.