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- Pink Floyd worked in Studio 3 at EMI Studios on Abbey Road, recording material for the album A Saucerful of Secrets.
- Pink Floyd arrived in New York to begin their first tour of the United States.
- Pink Floyd, together with Tomorrow, The Incredible String Band, and Tim Rose, performed two concerts as part of the Sunday At the Saville program at the Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London.
- Pink Floyd performed at the Miss Teenage Brighton Contest at the Top Rank Suite in Brighton, England, where they provided musical interludes during the competition. They performed “Arnold Layne,” “See Emily Play,” “Matilda Mother” and “Astronomy Domine.”
- Pink Floyd performed at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol, England.
- Pink Floyd played the first of three concerts at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, held from August 2–4.
- Pink Floyd played the first of two concerts at the Sound Factory club in Sacramento, California.
- Pink Floyd released the single Let There Be More Light / Remember a Day in the US.
- Pink Floyd performed at the Middle Earth club at the Club House, Richmond Athletic Club, in Richmond, England.
- Pink Floyd performed at the Le Blboquet club in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, where they played “Let There Be More Light” live as part of the four-hour television special “Surprise Partie”. The program, which also featured The Who, Joe Cocker, The Troggs, Fleetwood Mac, Small Faces, PP Arnold, The Equals and others, was broadcast in color by ORTF2 on December 31.
- Pink Floyd performed at The Country Club in Belsize Park, London.
- Pink Floyd film at the ORTF studios in Paris. Footage of the band and London landmarks accompanies their performance of “Let There Be More Light” on the program A L’Affiche Du Monde.
- Pink Floyd released the album “More”, the soundtrack to the film of the same name and a transitional album between Syd Barrett’s departure and the band’s later success with “The Dark Side of the Moon”.
- Pink Floyd performed at the Debating Hall at Birmingham University in Birmingham, England.
- Pink Floyd performed at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England.
- Pink Floyd released the album “Atom Heart Mother” through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom, and it became their first album to reach No. 1 on the British chart. In the United States, it reached No. 55 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and later received RIAA gold certification. The experimental recording represented a transition between their early psychedelic period and their later distinctive sound. The original cover contained no text and showed only a cow in a pasture; photographer Storm Thorgerson said he photographed the first cow he found in the countryside near Potters Bar. Its owner said her name was Lulubelle III.
- Pink Floyd performed at the Sales Pavilion Annex in Edmonton, Alberta.
- The album Atom Heart Mother was released in the United States. It had already been released in the UK on October 2. It reached number 55 on the U.S. chart, while reaching number one on the UK chart.
- Pink Floyd visited Japan for the first time and played the first of three concerts at the Hakone Aphrodite ’71 festival at Seikei Gakuen Jofundai near Lake Ashi in Hakone.
- Pink Floyd played their first concert in Australia at Festival Hall in Melbourne.
- Pink Floyd performed at Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England.
- Pink Floyd began recording the album “Wish You Were Here” at Abbey Road Studios in London.
- The album “Wish You Were Here” was approaching one year on the British chart. Pink Floyd's ninth studio album was first unveiled at the Knebworth Festival in July 1975 and released in September of that year. It was an immediate success, and EMI was unable to press enough copies to meet demand. The album cover was created by the Hipgnosis team and featured a series of images based on the themes of “absence” and “unfulfilled presence,” including a handshake between two men in business suits, one of whom is on fire, a veil covering a naked woman in the Norfolk countryside and a diver in California's Mono Lake who leaves no splash.
- Pink Floyd began a five-show run at Earls Court in London as part of The Wall tour. The production featured a massive wall that was gradually built throughout the performance, eventually separating the band from the audience.
- Ten original drawings by Gerald Scarfe created for Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” were stolen from the foyer of Earls Court in London, where they were on display.
- Pink Floyd released “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”, their thirteenth studio album and the band's first without founding member Roger Waters. Following the legal dispute, David Gilmour led the group. The album helped restore the band's prominent position, was followed by an extensive world tour and sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. It reached No. 3 in the US and UK and No. 1 in New Zealand.
- Pink Floyd began the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in Ottawa, Canada, despite threats from former member Roger Waters to sue the promoters. Waters later withdrew his objection to the use of the Pink Floyd name in an out-of-court settlement in December 1987 in exchange for exclusive legal control over the concept, design and stage elements of The Wall. The agreement allowed the group to continue using the Pink Floyd name.
- Pink Floyd's album A Momentary Lapse of Reason entered the U.S. album Top 10.
- Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon finally left the Billboard album chart after a record 741 weeks. Following a later rule change that allowed catalog albums to return to the main chart, the album returned repeatedly and reached a record 996 weeks on the chart at the beginning of 2026. It has sold approximately 50 million copies worldwide.
- After Pink Floyd's concert at Prague's Strahov Stadium, attended by 110,000 people, President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel invited the band to dinner.
- During the opening concert of Pink Floyd’s run at London’s Earls Court, a temporary stand holding around 1,200 spectators collapses shortly after “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” begins. Dozens are injured, nearly 100 people require treatment, and 36 are taken to hospital. The concert is cancelled and rescheduled for October 17.
- A thief in New Zealand reserved a copy of Pink Floyd's album The Wall at a record store in Christchurch, left his name and telephone number, and subsequently robbed the store.