A review by commander_blop
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason

A truly pleasant surprise. After listening to the audiobook version of Mark Blake's excellent history of the band last year I was intrigued to read this insider account of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason, drummer and founding member. There are plenty of fun insider anecdotes but what I didn't expect was such a charming, even-handed personal history. Mason's voice is wry, droll, and self-deprecating. Given the famous acrimony that existed between the remaining members of the Floyd (Gilmour, Mason, and Wright) after Roger Waters' departure it is refreshing to find Mason striving to be even-handed and fair in his account of the Floyd's most difficult period. Waters has apparently been working on a memoir of his own during the COVID lockdown and, while I will look forward to reading that as well, if his most recent public statements are any indication it will be a good deal less generous than what Mason has written here.