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Chicago Review Press has published Glenn Povey‘s “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd” for the first time in the United States.

The title has been available overseas since 2006, but this is the first American edition. It was published April 1.

The 368-page softcover book details the history of the band, and includes an exhaustive compendium of Floyd’s performance history.

Povey is the co-author of “Pink Floyd: In the Flesh: The Complete Performance History” and a contributor to MOJO, Record Collector, and other music magazines.

He’s a founder and a former editor of the now-defunct Pink Floyd ‘zine Brain Damage, and was a booking agent and promoter for a variety of artists, including the Electric Prunes, Gong, Hawkwind, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, the Pretty Things, and the Seeds.

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Bluewater Productions of Vancouver, Wash., will publish “The Pink Floyd Experience,” a Pink Floyd-themed graphic novel, in 2010.

The title, the sixth in Bluewater’s 10-volume series, is a repackaging of five Rock ‘n Roll Comics originally published by Revolutionary Comics in the 1990s.

The entire series documents the biographies of more than 70 bands and solo artists. It begins with Vol. 1 “The Beatles,” and will be published bi-monthly.

The original Rock ‘n Roll Comics series ran from 1989 to 1994. Average circulation for each issue was more than 50,000.

Each volume of the Bluewater publication will cost $17.99.

Goodman Books has published “The Art of Classic Rock,” a coffee table book by Paul Grushkin and Rob Roth.

The 256-page (5½-pound!) hardcover tome is a visual document of Roth’s 35-year collection of rock tour and advertising posters, merchandise, memorabilia and other artwork.

The book focuses on eight bands. The second chapter — 34 pages — is devoted to Pink Floyd.

Beautifully photographed and designed, the majority of the space on each page is filled with large, color reproductions of band memorabilia, with Grushkin’s narrative filling the spaces inbetween.

Grushkin is a leading rock historian and author of five books. Roth is a Tony-nominated Broadway director.

Other bands featured in the book are:

• The Rolling Stones
• The Who
• Led Zeppelin
• David Bowie
• Alice Cooper
• Elton John
• Queen

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Backbeat Books has published “Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know … and More!” by Stuart Shea.

The 344-page paperback is organized into brief chapters that cover various aspects of Pink Floyd history:

• How did the U.S. discover Floyd?
• What guests played on Floyd records?
• What were the band’s most memorable gigs?
• What are their greatest moments on record, as a group and individually?
• What are the notable missteps — and how did the band recover?
• Are the seemingly confessional songs true?
• What records influenced them, and which performers follow in their wake?
• What was it like to be at a Floyd show in 1967, in ’73, in ’80?

Shea is co-author of “Fab Four FAQ,” associate editor of “The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia,” and author of “Wrigley Field: An Unauthorized Biography.” He lives in Chicago.

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