Original Band Members Biography
Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley was born on the 27th January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom but was raised in Hampstead in London and attended Frensham Heights School, near Farnham, Surrey. He then attended the University of Westminster (known at the time as Regent Street Polytechnic) this is where he met Roger Walters, Bob Klose and Rick Wright and formed the band sigma 6, the predecessor to Pink Floyd. Mason's first marriage was to Lindy Rutter, with whom he had two daughters Chloe and Holly. Lindy was also an accomplished woodwind player and she played flute on "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" from Ummagumma. The couple then sadly divorced and Mason then married to his second wife, Nettie, who was most well known for appearing as an adjudicator on the series "Treasure Hunt" in 1984. They have two sons Cary and Guy and live in Hampstead, London. Mason's favorite hobby is motor racing. He owns (through his company Ten Tenths) and races several classic cars, and has competed successfully at the "24 Hours of Le Mans".
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters was born on 6th September 1943 in Great Bookham, surrey, United Kingdom. He attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then Hills Road Sixth Form College known at the time as Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. He attended with his future band mate Syd Barrett, He then attended the University of Westminster to study architecture. Waters married his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim, a successful potter; she was featured on the gatefold sleeve of the original release of Ummagumma. They had no children together and divorced in 1975. In 1976, Waters married Lady Carolyne Christie, the niece of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland. Waters had a son with Christie, they called him Harry Waters, he is a tallented pianist and has been with his father's touring band with his father's since 2006. Walters and Christie also had a daughter, India Waters. unfortunately Christie and Waters marrige ended. In 1993 Walters then married Priscilla Phillips; they had a son together, Jack Fletcher. Their marriage also came to an end. Then in 2012 Waters married the actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning and filed for divorce in September 2015.
David Glimour
David Jon Gilmour was born on 6 March 1946, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Gilmour began studied at Cambridge Technical College. In 1962, Gilmour joined the blues rock band Jokers Wild. They recorded a one-sided album and a single at Regent Sound Studio, in west London, but only fifty copies of each were made. Gilmour's first marriage was to American-born model and artist Virginia "Ginger" Hasenbein, in 1975. The couple had four children Alice who was born in 1976, Claire who was born in 1979, Sara who was born in 1983 and Matthew who was born in 1986 sadly the couple divirced in 1994. He then married novelist, lyricist and journalist Polly Samson. The couple have four children adopted son Charlie (born 1991 to Samson and Heathcote Williams), Joe (born 1995), Gabriel (born 1997) and Romany (born 2002).
Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett in the English city of Cambridge to a middle-class family living at 60 Glisson Road. At one point at Morley Memorial Junior School he was taught by Roger Waters' mother, Mary. Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys(with Waters). His father died of cancer on 11 December 1961 . Barrett formed a band called Geoff Mott and The Mottoes but shortly after this geoff left the band and they split. In September 1962, Barrett had taken a place at the Cambridge Technical College art department, where he met David Gilmour. Starting in 1964, the band that would become Pink Floyd evolved through various line-up and name changes including "The Abdabs", "The Screaming Abdabs", "Sigma 6", and "The Meggadeaths". In 1965, Barrett joined them as The Tea Set. Despite his relationships with various women such as Libby Gaudsen, Lindsay Korner, Jenny Spires and Iggy the Eskimo, Barrett never married or had children.
Richard Wright
Wright, whose father was head biochemist at Unigate Dairies, grew up in Hatch End, north west London and was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School. Uncertain about his future, he enrolled in 1962 at the Regent Street Polytechnic which was later incorporated into the University of Westminster. There he met fellow musicians Roger Waters and Nick Mason, and all three joined a band formed by classmate Clive Metcalf called Sigma 6. right's position in the band was tenuous to begin with, as he did not choose a definitive instrument, playing piano if a pub had one, otherwise settling on the trombone or rhythm guitar. Wright moved in with Waters and Mason to a house in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate, and began serious rehearsals to become a professional group. Although Mason and Waters were competent students, Wright found architecture of little interest and after only a year of study moved to theLondon College of Music.He took a break from studies and travelled to Greece for a sabbatical before he joined Pink Floyd. Wright married his first wife, Juliette Gale, in 1964. She had been a singer in one of the early bands that evolved into Pink Floyd. They had two children and divorced in 1982. His second marriage to Franka lasted between 1984 and 1994. Wright married his third wife Mildred "Millie" Hobbs in 1995, with whom he had a son, Ben. They separated in 2007.