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The pair, together with the late Richard Wright, formed the
group while studying architecture at the former Regent Street
Polytechnic in central London between 1962 and 1965. The
psychedelic and progressive rock band went on to become one of
the most commercially successful groups in popular music.
Returning to the site of the polytechnic to unveil the plaque,
they talked about their time as students and about the early
days of Pink Floyd.
Asked how good the group was when it started out, drummer Mason
said: "Put it like this: if we'd gone up for ‘Britain's Got
Talent’, I don't think we would have made it past the audition
stage. We weren't terribly good."
"We were effing awful," added Waters, Pink Floyd's bassist and
the band's main lyricist during their peak years.
Pink Floyd, which racked up record sales exceeding 250 million,
had an initial line-up that included guitarist and songwriter
Syd Barrett, another student, who left in 1968. Lead guitarist
David Gilmour became the fifth member in late 1967.
(Editing by Michael Roddy and Mark Heinrich)
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