The Amazing Pudding
Template:Short description Template:For Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox magazine The Amazing Pudding (1983–1993)<ref name="PinkFloydArchives">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a British fan magazine devoted to Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, and the solo careers of other Pink Floyd band members, including Syd Barrett.<ref name="SaucerfulOfSecrets-1991">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="OM">Template:Cite news</ref> It was seen as being the main fanzine of Pink Floyd during the time of its publication.<ref name="PinkFloyd-FAQ-1999">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Journalist Stuart Maconie wrote about The Amazing Pudding as part of a feature in the April 1993 issue of Q.<ref name="Q-DarkSideOfTheMoon-1993">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>The April issue hit news-stands in March, and the feature commemorated the twentieth anniversary release of Dark Side of the Moon, in March 1973</ref>
History
The title, The Amazing Pudding, was originally a working title for Pink Floyd's 1970 "Atom Heart Mother" suite.<ref name="RoughGuide-2006">Template:Cite book</ref>
The magazine was established by Ivor Trueman and was co-edited and published, variously, by Trueman (issues 1–17, 1983–), Andy Mabbett (issues 2–60, 1983–1993),<ref name="BrainDamage-MusicMystery-Review-2010">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="RecordCollector-MusicMystery-Review-2010">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="RecordCollector-WhateverHappened-Review-2011">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Bruno MacDonald (issues 24–60, 1987–1993),<ref name="BrunoMacDonald-TAP">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Dave Walker (issues 13–60, –1993), for ten years and 60 issues.<ref name="PinkFloydArchives" />
MacDonald, who started writing for the magazine starting with issue 15, described the self-published and self-distributed publication – available in the United Kingdom at large record stores like HMV, Tower Records, and Virgin among others – as being purely independent, illustrated by its irreverent take on the band and its members.<ref name="BrunoMacDonald-TAP" /><ref name="BrunoMacDonald-TAP-DodgyPinkture">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Associated publications
Trueman went on to publish the Syd Barrett fanzine called Opel before co-founding Delerium Records in 1991.<ref name="EIL-TAP-SydsOpel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Mabbett wrote three books on Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd: The Visual Documentary (1994, with Miles),<ref name="PinkFloydVisualDocumentary-1994">Template:Cite book</ref> The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd (1995),<ref name="CompleteGuide-1995">Template:Cite book</ref> and Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery (2010).<ref name="MusicMystery-2010">Template:Cite book</ref> Mabbett also wrote the section on Pink Floyd in the official program for the band's 1996 induction into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<ref name="RogerWaters-RNRHallOfFame-1999">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Mabbett appears as a Pink Floyd expert in the documentary Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd?<ref name="RecordCollector-WhateverHappened-Review-2011" />
MacDonald also edited a Sidgwick & Jackson book (later republished by Da Capo Press) that was an anthology of collected writings about the band called Pink Floyd: Through the Eyes of... the Band, Its Fans, Friends, and Foes (1996).<ref name="ThroughTheEyes-1996">Template:Cite book</ref>