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Template:Otheruses Blood is a highly specialized circulating tissue consisting of several types of cells suspended in a fluid medium known as plasma. The cellular constituents are: red blood cells, which carry respiratory gases and give it its red color because they contain haemoglobin (an iron-containing protein that binds oxygen in the lungs and transports it to tissues in the body), white blood cells (leukocytes), which fight disease, and platelets, cell fragments which play an important part in the clotting of the blood.
Medical terms related to blood often begin with hemo- or hemato- (BE: haemo- and haemato-) from the Greek word "haima" for "blood." Anatomically, blood is considered a connective tissue from both its origin in the bones and its function.
Functions
- Supply of oxygen to tissues (bound to hemoglobin which is carried in red cells)
- Supply of nutrients such as glucose, amino acids and fatty acids (dissolved in the blood or bound to plasma proteins)
- Removal of waste such as carbon dioxide, urea and lactic acid
- Immunological functions, including circulation of white cells, and detection of foreign material by antibodies
- Coagulation, which is one part of the body's self-repair mechanism
- Messenger functions, including the transport of hormones and the signalling of tissue damage
- Regulation of body pH
- Regulation of core body temperature
- Hydraulic functions, including erection (see also jumping spider)
Problems with blood composition or circulation can lead to downstream tissue dysfunction. The term ischaemia refers to tissue which is inadequately perfused with blood.
The blood is circulated around the lungs and body by the pumping action of the heart. Additional return pressure may be generated by gravity and the actions of skeletal muscles. In mammals, blood is in equilibrium with lymph, which is continuously formed from blood (by capillary ultrafiltration) and returned to the blood (via the thoracic duct). The lymphatic circulation may be thought of as the "second circulation".
Anatomy of mammalian blood
Blood is composed of several kinds of cells (occasionally called corpuscles); these formed elements of the blood constitute about 45% of whole blood by volume, mostly red blood cells. The other 55% is blood plasma, a fluid that is the blood's liquid medium, appearing yellow in color. The proportion of blood occupied by red blood cells is referred to as the hematocrit.The normal pH of human arterial blood is approximately 7.40 (normal range is 7.35-7.45), a weak alkaline solution. Blood that has a pH below 7.35 is acidic, while blood pH above 7.45 is alkaline. Blood pH along with arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) and HCO3 readings are helpful in determining the acid-base balance of the body. The respiratory system and urinary system normally control the acid-base balance of blood as part of homeostasis. Blood is about 7% of the human body weight,<ref>Bloodcenters.org</ref> so the average adult has a blood volume of about 5 litres, of which 2.7-3 litres is plasma. Human blood density is around 1060 kg/m³.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The combined surface area of all the red cells in the human body would be roughly 2,000 times as great as the body's exterior surface.Template:Fact
The cells are:
- Red blood cells or erythrocytes (96%)
- In mammals, mature red blood cells lack a nucleus and organelles. They contain the blood's haemoglobin and distribute oxygen. The red blood cells (together with endothelial vessel cells and some other cells) are also marked by glycoproteins that define the different blood types.
- White blood cells or leukocytes (3.0%)
- White blood cells are part of the immune system; they destroy infectious agents, pathogens.
- Platelets or thrombocytes (1.0%)
- Platelets are responsible for blood clotting (coagulation). They change fibrinogen into fibrin. This fibrin creates a mesh onto which red blood cells collect and clot. This clot stops more blood from leaving the body and also helps to prevent bacteria from entering the body.
Blood plasma is essentially an aqueous solution containing 92% water, 8% blood plasma proteins, and trace amounts of other materials. Some components are:
- Serum albumin
- Blood clotting factors (to facilitate coagulation)
- Immunoglobulins (antibodies)
- Hormones
- Carbon dioxide
- Various other proteins
- Various electrolytes (mainly sodium and chlorine)
Together, plasma and cells form a non-Newtonian fluid whose flow properties are uniquely adapted to the architecture of the blood vessels.
The term serum refers to plasma from which the clotting proteins have been removed. Most of the protein remaining is albumin and immunoglobulins.
Physiology of blood
Production and degradation
Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, this process is termed hematopoiesis. The proteinaceous component (including clotting proteins) is produced overwhelmingly in the liver, while hormones are produced by the endocrine glands and the watery fraction is regulated by the hypothalamus and maintained by the kidney and indirectly by the gut.
Blood cells are degraded by the spleen and the Kupffer cells in the liver. The liver also clears some proteins, lipids and amino acids. The kidney actively secretes waste products into the urine. Erythrocytes usually live up to 120 days before they are systematically replaced by new erythrocytes created by the process of hematopoiesis.
Transport of oxygen
Blood oxygenation is measured in several ways, but the most important measure is the hemoglobin (Hb) saturation percentage. This is a non-linear (sigmoidal) function of the partial pressure of oxygen. About 98.5% of the oxygen in a sample of arterial blood in a healthy human breathing air at normal pressure is chemically combined with the Hb. Only 1.5% is physically dissolved in the other blood liquids and not connected to Hb. The hemoglobin molecule is the primary transporter of oxygen in mammals and many other species (for exceptions, see below).
With the exception of pulmonary and umbilical arteries and their corresponding veins, arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart and deliver it to the body via arterioles and capillaries, where the oxygen is consumed; afterwards, venules and veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
Differences in infrared absorption between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood form the basis for realtime oxygen saturation measurement in hospitals and ambulances.
Under normal conditions in humans at rest, haemoglobin in blood leaving the lungs is about 98-99% saturated with oxygen. In a healthy adult at rest, deoxygenated blood returning to the lungs is still approximately 75% saturated.<ref>Ventilation and Endurance Performance</ref><ref>Transplant Support- Lung, Heart/Lung, Heart MSN groups</ref> Increased oxygen consumption during sustained exercise reduces the oxygen saturation of venous blood, which can reach less than 15% in a trained athlete; although breathing rate and blood flow increase to compensate, oxygen saturation in arterial blood can drop to 95% or less under these conditions.<ref>J Physiol. 2005 July 1</ref> Oxygen saturation this low is considered dangerous in an individual at rest (for instance, during surgery under anesthesia): "As a general rule, any condition which leads to a sustained mixed venous saturation of less than 50% will be poorly tolerated and a mixed venous saturation of less than 30% should be viewed as a medical emergency."<ref>The 'St George' Guide To Pulmonary Artery Catheterisation</ref>
A fetus, receiving oxygen via the placenta, is exposed to much lower oxygen pressures (about 20% of the level found in an adult's lungs) and so fetuses produce another form of hemoglobin with a much higher affinity for oxygen (hemoglobin F) in order to extract as much oxygen as possible from this sparse supply.<ref>Oxygen Carriage in Blood - High Altitude</ref>
Substances other than oxygen can bind to the hemoglobin; in some cases this can cause irreversible damage to the body. Carbon monoxide for example is extremely dangerous when absorbed into the blood. When combined with the hemoglobin, it irreversibly makes carboxyhemoglobin which reduces the volume of oxygen that can be carried in the blood. This can very quickly cause suffocation, as oxygen is vital to many organisms (including humans). This damage can occur when smoking a cigarette (or similar item) or in event of a fire. Thus carbon monoxide is considered far more dangerous than the actual fire itself because it reduces the oxygen carrying content of the blood.
Insects
In insects, the blood (more properly called hemolymph) is not involved in the transport of oxygen. (Openings called tracheae allow oxygen from the air to diffuse directly to the tissues). Insect blood moves nutrients to the tissues and removes waste products in an open system.
Small invertebrates
In some small invertebrates like insects, oxygen is simply dissolved in the plasma. Larger animals use respiratory proteins to increase the oxygen carrying capacity. Hemoglobin is the most common respiratory protein found in nature. Hemocyanin (blue) contains copper and is found in crustaceans and mollusks. It is thought that tunicates (sea squirts) might use vanabins (proteins containing vanadium) for respiratory pigment (bright green, blue, or orange).
In many invertebrates, these oxygen-carrying proteins are freely soluble in the blood; in vertebrates they are contained in specialized red blood cells, allowing for a higher concentration of respiratory pigments without increasing viscosity or damaging blood filtering organs like the kidneys.
Deep sea invertebrates
Giant tube worms have extraordinary hemoglobins that allow them to live in extraordinary environments. These hemoglobins also carry sulfides normally fatal in other animals.
Transport of carbon dioxide
When systemic arterial blood flows through capillaries, carbon dioxide diffuses from the tissues into the blood. Some carbon dioxide is dissolved in the blood. Some carbon dioxide reacts with hemoglobin and other proteins to form carbamino compounds. The remaining carbon dioxide is converted to bicarbonate and hydrogen ions through the action of RBC carbonic anhydrase. Most carbon dioxide is transported through the blood in the form of bicarbonate ions.
Transport of hydrogen ions
Some oxyhemoglobin loses oxygen and becomes deoxyhemoglobin. Deoxyhemoglobin has a much greater affinity for H+ than does oxyhemoglobin so it binds most of the hydrogen ions.
Color
In humans and other hemoglobin-using creatures, oxygenated blood is bright red. This is due to oxygenated iron in the red blood cells. Deoxygenated blood is a darker shade of red, which can be seen during blood donation and when venous blood samples are taken. However, due to an optical effect caused by the way in which light penetrates through the skin, veins typically appear blue in colour. This has led to a common misconception that venous blood is blue before it is exposed to air. Another reason for this misconception is that medical charts always show venous blood as blue in order to distinguish it from arterial blood which is depicted as red on the same chart.
The blood of horseshoe crabs is blue, which is a result of its high content in copper-based hemocyanin instead of the iron-based hemoglobin found, for example, in humans.
Provision of force
In mammals the restriction of blood flow is commonly used as a temporary provision of force, as in an erection.
Health and disease
Ancient Medicine
Hippocratic medicine considered blood one of the four humors (together with phlegm, yellow bile and black bile). As many diseases were thought to be due to an excess of blood, bloodletting and leeching were a common intervention until the 19th century (it is still used for some rare blood disorders).
In classical Greek medicine, blood was associated with air, springtime, and with a merry and gluttonous (sanguine) personality. It was also believed to be produced exclusively by the liver.
Diagnosis
Blood pressure and blood tests are amongst the most commonly performed diagnostic investigations that directly concern the blood.
Pathology
Problems with blood circulation and composition play a role in many diseases.
- Wounds can cause major blood loss (see bleeding). The thrombocytes cause the blood to coagulate, blocking relatively minor wounds, but larger ones must be repaired at speed to prevent exsanguination. Damage to the internal organs can cause severe internal bleeding, or hemorrhage.
- Circulation blockage can also create many medical conditions from ischemia in the short term to tissue necrosis and gangrene in the long term.
- Hemophilia is a genetic illness that causes dysfunction in one of the blood's clotting mechanisms. This can allow otherwise inconsequential wounds to be life-threatening, but more commonly results in hemarthrosis, or bleeding into joint spaces, which can be crippling.
- Leukemia is a group of cancers of the blood-forming tissues.
- Major blood loss, whether traumatic or not (e.g. during surgery), as well as certain blood diseases like anemia and thalassemia, can require blood transfusion. Several countries have blood banks to fill the demand for transfusable blood. A person receiving a blood transfusion must have a blood type compatible with that of the donor.
- Blood is an important vector of infection. HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, is transmitted through contact between blood, semen, or the bodily secretions of an infected person. Hepatitis B and C are transmitted primarily through blood contact. Owing to blood-borne infections, bloodstained objects are treated as a biohazard.
- Bacterial infection of the blood is bacteremia or sepsis. Viral Infection is viremia. Malaria and trypanosomiasis are blood-borne parasitic infections.
Treatment
Blood transfusion is the most direct therapeutic use of blood. It is obtained from human donors by blood donation. As there are different blood types, and transfusion of the incorrect blood may cause severe complications, crossmatching is done to ascertain the correct type is transfused.
Other blood products administered intravenously are platelets, blood plasma, cryoprecipitate and specific coagulation factor concentrates.
Many forms of medication (from antibiotics to chemotherapy) are administered intravenously, as they are not readily or adequately absorbed by the digestive tract.
As stated above, some diseases are still treated by removing blood from the circulation.
It is the fluid part of the blood that saves lives where severe blood loss occurs, other preparations can be given such as ringers atopical plasma volume expander as a non-blood alternative, and these alternatives where used are rivalling blood use when used.
Mythology and religion
Due to its importance to life, blood is associated with a large number of beliefs. One of the most basic is the use of blood as a symbol for family relationships; to be "related by blood" is to be related by ancestry or descendance, rather than marriage. This bears closely to bloodlines, and sayings such as "blood is thicker than water" and "bad blood", as well as "Blood brother". Blood is given particular emphasis in the Jewish and Christian religions because (Leviticus 17:11) says "the life of a creature is in the blood."
Indigenous Australians
In many indigenous Australian Aboriginal peoples' traditions ochre (particularly red) and blood, both high in iron content and considered Maban, are applied to the bodies of dancers for ritual. As Lawlor states:In many Aboriginal rituals and ceremonies, red ochre is rubbed all over the naked bodies of the dancers. In secret, sacred male ceremonies, blood extracted from the veins of the participant's arms is exchanged and rubbed on their bodies. Red ochre is used in similar ways in less secret ceremonies. Blood is also used to fasten the feathers of birds onto people's bodies. Bird feathers contain a protein that is highly magnetically sensitive. <ref>Lawlor, Robert (1991). Voices Of The First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal dreamtime. Page 102-3. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, Ltd. ISBN 0-89281-355-5</ref>Lawlor comments that blood employed in this fashion is held by these peoples to attune the dancers to the invisible energetic realm of the Dreamtime. Lawlor then draws information from different disciplines charting a relationship between these invisible energetic realms and magnetic fields. Iron and magnetism having a marked relationship.
Indo-European paganism
Among the Germanic tribes (such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norsemen), blood was used during the sacrifices, the Blóts. The blood was considered to have the power of its originator and after the butchering the blood was sprinkled on the walls, on the statues of the gods and on the participants themselves. This act of sprinkling blood was called bleodsian in Old English and the terminology was borrowed by the Roman Catholic Church becoming to bless and blessing. The Hittite word for blood, ishar was a cognate to words for "oath" and "bond", see Ishara. The Ancient Greeks believed that the blood of the Gods, ichor, was a mineral that was poisonous to mortals.
Judaism
In Judaism, blood cannot be consumed even in the smallest quantity (Leviticus 3:17 and elsewhere); this is reflected in Jewish dietary laws (Kashrut). Blood is purged from meat by salting and soaking in water.
Other rituals involving blood are the covering of the blood of fowl and game after slaughtering (Leviticus 17:13); the reason given by the Torah is: "Because the life of every animal is [in] his blood" (ibid 17:14), although from its context in Leviticus 3:17 it would appear that blood cannot be consumed because it is to be used in the sacrificial service (known as the korbanot), in the Temple in Jerusalem. Blood (the blood of a lamb) was also the means for atonement of sins for the Jews.
Christianity
Template:Main Some Christian churches, including Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, branches of Anglicanism, and the Moravian Church, teach that when consecrated the Eucharist wine becomes the material Blood of Jesus. Thus in the consecrated wine (now the Most Precious Blood of Christ), Jesus becomes spiritually and physically present. This teaching is rooted in the Last Supper as written in the four gospels of the Bible, in which Jesus stated to his disciples that the bread which they ate was his body, and the wine was his blood. "This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." (Template:Sourcetext). Various forms of Protestantism, especially those of a Wesleyan or Presbyterian lineage, teach that the wine is no more than a symbol of the blood of Christ, who is not physically but spiritually present. Blood (the blood of Jesus Christ) is also seen as the means for atonement for sins for Christians. Lutheran theology teaches that the body and blood is present together "in, with, and under" the bread and wine of the eucharist feast. Mormons believe that before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, blood was not present in their bodies. It is said to have formed after the Fall when they became mortal.
Islam
Consumption of food containing blood is forbidden by Islamic dietary laws.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses do not eat blood or accept tranfusions of whole blood or its four major components namely, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets (thrombocytes), and whole plasma. Members are instructed to personally decide whether or not to accept fractions, and medical procedures that involve their own blood.
Vampire legends
Vampires are mythological beings which live forever by drinking the blood of the living. Stories of creatures of this kind are known all over the world. European versions of this myth are mostly inspired by folklore based on the stories regarding Vlad Dracula.Template:Fact
Chinese and Japanese culture
In Chinese culture, it is often said that if a man's nose produces a small flow of blood, this signifies that he is experiencing o_oual desire. This often appears in Chinese-language and Hong Kong films. This is also evident in Japanese culture and is parodied in anime and manga. Male characters will often be shown with a nosebleed if they have just seen a female nude or in little clothing, or if they have had an erotic thought or fantasy.Template:Fact
Blood libel
Template:Main Various religious and other groups have been falsely accused of using human blood in rituals; such accusations are known as blood libel. The most common form of this is blood libel against Jews. Although there is no ritual involving human blood in Jewish law or custom, fabrications of this nature (often involving the murder of children) were widely used during the Middle Ages to justify anti-Semitic persecution and some have persisted into the 21st century.
Art
Blood is one of the body fluids that has been used in art.<ref>"Nostalgia" Artwork in blood</ref> In particular, the performances of Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Franko B, Lennie Lee, Ron Athey, Yang Zhichao and Kira O' Reilly along with the photography of Andres Serrano, have incorporated blood as a prominent visual element. Marc Quinn has made sculptures using frozen blood, including a cast of his own head made using his own blood.
See also
- Artificial blood
- List of human blood components
- Blood as food: see black pudding and tiết canh
- Blood and video game censorship
- Taboo food and drink#Blood
Notes
External links
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- Blood Online, a journal published by the American Society of Hematology
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Discography
This page lists Pink Floyd albums and singles, both official and unofficial, as well as various awards. For individual songs, see the category listing.
Studio albums
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<center>(1967) <center>#6 UK; #131 US |
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<center>(1968) <center>#9 UK; didn't chart in the US |
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<center>(1969) <center>#9 UK; #153 US |
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<center>(1969) (Double album) <center>#5 UK; #74 US Platinum |
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<center>(1970) <center>#1 UK; #55 US Gold |
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<center>(1972) <center>#6 UK; #46 US Gold |
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<center>(1973) <center>#2 UK; #1 US (1 week) 15x Platinum(Diamond) |
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<center>(1975) <center> #1 UK; #1 US (2 Weeks) 8x Platinum |
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<center>(1979) <center>(Double album) <center>#3 UK; #1 US (15 weeks) 23x Platinum (Diamond) |
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<center>(1983) #1 UK; #6 US 2x Platinum |
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<center>(1987) <center>#3 UK; #3 US 4x Platinum |
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<center>(1994) <center> #1 UK; #1 US (4 weeks) 3x Platinum |
Live albums
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Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) (live) #11 UK; #11 US Platinum |
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Is There Anybody Out There? (2000) (live) #15 UK; #19 US Platinum |
Major compilations
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A Nice Pair (1973) #36 US -The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - A Saucerful Of Secrets (album)Gold |
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A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) (compilation) #37 UK; #31 US 2X Platinum |
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Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd (2001) #2 UK; #2 US 3X Platinum |
Vinyl singles (1960s)
- 1967 (March 11th): "Arnold Layne" / "Candy and a Currant Bun" (#20 UK)
- 1967 (June 16th): "See Emily Play" / "The Scarecrow" (#6 UK, #134 U.S.)
- 1967 (November 18th): "Apples and Oranges" / "Paint Box"
- 1968 (April 12th): "It Would Be So Nice" / "Julia Dream"
- 1968 (December 17th): "Point Me at the Sky" / "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
Other
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967 documentary film soundtrack, featuring 2 tracks)
- "Give Birth to a Smile" (song featuring (uncredited) all four members from Roger Waters and Ron Geesin's Music from "The Body", 1969)
- The Man and the Journey (1969 aborted live concept album)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Masters of Rock (1974)
- London '66-'67 (1995)
- 1967: The First Three Singles (1997)
- The Committee (1968) (Unreleased soundtrack from the film, The Committee)
- The Early Singles (Distributed with the Shine On box set)
Bootlegs
Also see: List of Pink Floyd ROIOs
Pink Floyd are one of the heaviest-bootlegged bands in history, with bootleg recordings of the band numbering at least in the hundreds. Collectors of these bootlegs often call them RoIOs, or Recordings of Indeterminate/Illegitimate Origin. The vast majority of these are audience recordings of their various concerts, as only a few studio outtakes and soundboard recordings have leaked to bootleggers. The most popular exceptions are the unreleased Syd Barrett songs "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", but there are others as well, such as "Lucy Leave" and a cover of Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee" both from the first incarnation of the band. Many bootlegs before the 1990s featured singles such as "Candy and a Currant Bun" that had not been released on compilation discs, but these disappeared when the The Early Singles disc in the Shine On box set was released. Collecting bootlegs is usually easy, as the internet has made bootleg sales for profit largely pointless. Organizations such as Harvested have made a hobby of cleaning up and remastering bootleg recordings and issuing them to traders for free.
The hundreds of audience recordings vary in quality from excellent (concerts in 1994 and 1988) to abysmal (the era between 1967 and 1971). Audience noise is often absent, because audiences of the band in their early days were very quiet. There are sometimes recordings of standout quality in a period of otherwise low-quality recordings; an example is the Electric Factory show in late 1970, which was nearly soundboard-quality during a period when most other recordings were extremely poor. (Audience recordings would not regularly be as good as the Electric Factory show until 1988). Other standouts include the "Fireman" source of the Hollywood Bowl concert in 1972, in which a complete rendition of the pre-release "prototype" Dark Side of the Moon suite was played; the 9 May 1977 show in Oakland from the same source, which includes the last performance of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" to date; and an excellent recording of the 24 April 1975 show in Los Angeles, taped by the legendary taper Mike Millard, containing the best-existing versions of Dick Parry performing a saxophone solo in "Echoes" and the prototype "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Gotta Be Crazy", which would eventually become "Sheep" and "Dogs" respectively.
The 6 July 1977 show in Montreal is widely traded, the occasion of Roger Waters infamously luring a fan onstage and then spitting on them; his self-disgust after the event inspired the idea of building a wall between the band and the audience. While lower quality than the previously mentioned shows, this concert is extremely popular due to the ability to hear this historic event happen at the end of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)".
One of the most widely traded bootlegs online is A Tree Full of Secrets, a massive 18-disc collection of Pink Floyd material which ignores live recordings but includes all material released on albums outside the Pink Floyd discography such as movie soundtracks, radio advertisements, television performances, studio outtakes, rehearsals and alternative mono/stereo remixes. It also features considerable rare solo material from all of Pink Floyd's members except Syd Barrett. It is the definitive collection of all Floyd rarities, and even includes materials suspected of being fake for the sake of completeness and allowing the listener to decide.
Syd Barrett's solo rarities are collected on the "sister set" Have You Got It Yet?, an equally large set which is also widely traded. In addition to studio rarities from both his Pink Floyd days (many of which are on both sets) and solo era, it also includes well over a hundred covers of Syd Barrett and Barrett-era Pink Floyd songs by major and minor artists.
Awards list
Pink Floyd have received several awards during their career.
Silver Clef
Pink Floyd was awarded a Silver Clef for their charity work for The Nordoff-Robbins Music Center in 1980
Grammys
Pink Floyd have been nominated for several Grammy Awards:
- 1973 nomination for Album of the Year
- "Dark Side of the Moon" -- lost to Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions"
- 1980 nomination for Album of the Year
- "The Wall" -- lost to Christopher Cross' Christopher Cross
- 1980 nomination for Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group
- "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" -- lost to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"
- 1994 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- "Marooned" from The Division Bell -- won
American Music Awards
Pink Floyd have been nominated for an American Music Award
- 1995 nomination for Best Pop/Rock Duo or Group -- lost to Ace of Base
RIAA gold certifications
- Atom Heart Mother
- Obscured by Clouds
- A Nice Pair
RIAA platinum certifications
- Ummagumma (1,000,000+)
- Meddle - 2x (2,000,000+)
- Dark Side of the Moon - 15x (15,000,000+)
- Dark Side of the Moon DVD - 2x (100,000+)
- Live at Pompei VHS/DVD - 2x (100,000+)
- Wish You Were Here - 6x (6,000,000+)
- Animals - 4x (4,000,000+)
- The Wall - 23x (11,500,000+)
- A Collection of Great Dance Songs - 2x (2,000,000+)
- The Final Cut - 3x (3,000,000+)
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason - 4x (4,000,000+)
- Delicate Sound of Thunder - 3x (3,000,000+)
- Shine On - (9-CD boxed set) (1,000,000+)
- The Division Bell - 3x (3,000,000+)
- Pulse - 2x (2,000,000+)
- Pulse VHS/DVD - 8x (400,000+)
- Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (1,000,000+)
- Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd 3x (3,000,000+)
Both Dark Side of The Moon, and The Wall are Diamond records, for selling over 10 million copies.
Total US Sales According to RIAA 73,500,000+
(see RIAA)
Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
Pink Floyd were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Barrett did not attend any of the inductions, due to his constant illness. Waters did not attend the 1996 induction, citing sickness, but did accept his 2005 induction via camera. Gilmour and Mason attended both events, but Wright could not make the 2005 induction due to eye surgery.
Miscellaneous
In 2002 Q magazine named Pink Floyd as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Two years later, the same magazine would place Pink Floyd as the biggest band of all time, above the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, according to a complex system for comparing bands which included album sales, charts performance and concert attendance.
Singles
External links
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