title = “The UFO Club was Pink Floyd’s early psychedelic home.” type = “.report.” source_topic = “Music History”

The UFO Club.

It ran for just over a year — late 1966 to early 1967 — in a small basement on Tottenham Court Road. Joe Boyd and John Hopkins booked Pink Floyd as the house band, and they played there nearly every week during their most trippy, experimental phase.

The place was tiny, sticky, and smelled of incense and sweat. But it became the epicenter of the UK underground scene. Pink Floyd would stretch songs like “Interstellar Over