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Pink Floyd play Younger Hall in 1969
Thursday 16 February 2012
16 February marks the anniversary of Pink Floyd’s appearance in the University’s Younger Hall in 1969. Billed as “the biggest name and least Establishment band that has ever come to St Andrews”, the band raised the rafters, performing for an audience of 520. The band were booked for a cost of £350, and the event ran at a loss of £70 having failed to fill to its capacity of 800. However, it is a night that has won the University of St Andrews a place in the annals of rock history and adds a little psychedelia to the town’s collective memory. What’s more, it was not the financial disaster that had been predicted by some and the Union survived to put on other mainstream acts in following years such as Hawkwind in 1971 and The Jam in 1978.