#alan styles

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Pink Floyd Ummagumma ad, Royal Air Force Biggin Hill Aerodrome, Kent, England in 1969. © Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell

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"Fancy a cuppa?" Floyd enjoying some afternoon tea on stage during 'The Man & The Journey" in 1969. Alan "Psychedelic Breakfast" Styles joins in.

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I wanna go on a date with Alan the Breakfast guy

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Alan Styles, Peter Watts and Roger Waters on the road - 1970

Alan Styles was one of Pink Floyd's main roadies for many years, and is the subject of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast on the Floyd's album Atom Heart Mother. He is also on the cover of Ummagumma

The repeating, demented laughter heard on "Speak to Me" and "Brain Damage" belongs to Peter Watts, Pink Floyd's road manager at the time. He was also responsible for snippets of dialogue such as "I never said I was frightened of dying" from the beginning of "The Great Gig in the Sky." All of these bits were taken from the cue-card interview sessions orchestrated by Roger Waters.

Watts left Floyd in 1974 and sadly passed away only a couple of years later. Not before siring a daughter, however - Naomi Watts, who go on to star in Hollywood films like King Kong and Mulholland Drive.

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Oh to be an egg on a frying pan cooked by no other than Alan

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Pink Floyd and road crew Alan Styles and Peter Watts. Photo session taken on the Royal Air Force Biggin Hill Aerodrome, Kent, England in 1969. Photos: Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell.

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Pink Floyd and road crew Alan Styles and Peter Watts. Photo session taken on the Royal Air Force Biggin Hill Aerodrome, Kent, England in 1969. Photos: Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell.