The music of the 60s and 70s is still associated with the world of drugs today. When they became famous, Pink Floyd were also considered to be musicians who used drugs, because that was the fashion of those years in the field of rock. This association has led to many bizarre theories about their music and, in that regard, according to Roger Waters, some really exaggerated things have been said about the band.
Pink Floyd did not compose pop music, but high quality blues-style songs with psychedelic references to literature as well. The band achieved success with the first two albums, then founder Syd Barrett left the scene due to his health problems due to LSD abuse.
Roger Waters, however, still fails to accept that their reputations were somewhat damaged in their early days by their erroneous association with drug abuse. According to him, the media tread a little too much on the alleged role that drugs played in the composition of their music, thus clouding their real merits and their creativity.
"Pink Floyd fans have come to formulate the theory that our music has something to do with space, but this happened at the beginning," Waters commented in an interview. "it's due to the fact that one song was called Interstellar Overdrive, while another was called Astronomy Domine and both were composed by Syd ”.
That was not the only time that Waters talked about this topic and this indicates that it is a question that still touches him deeply today. In an interview with Howard Stern, the musician admitted he was addicted to nicotine and tried acids twice, but reiterated that he never relied on drugs to create new music.
