US publication Spinner have just interviewed Bob Ezrin, musician and producer for the Floyd for a number of years from The Wall onwards. For the first time, Ezrin has revealed what might have been, with regard to 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason album.

At the time Ezrin was working with the band on the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, he was heavily into rap - a new musical form which was emerging at the time. "I became fascinated with [rap] in the Afrika Bambaataa days," Ezrin tells Spinner. "I'm an early adopter. I actually brought some in when we were doing A Momentary Lapse of Reason. I brought some in to David Gilmour's thing going, 'Boy, I think this stuff with a rock beat would be awesome.'"

Spinner notes that the suggestion was not overly popular with the guitarist. "He said, 'Oh my God, that would be terrible,'" Ezrin recalls with a laugh. "He couldn't believe it. He hated the idea."

For the full interview, visit Spinner.com.

La Voix Du Nord, a French local newspaper, has posted a small but interesting news item about Roger Waters.

They report that he is following in the footsteps of his grandfather who died in the Great War. He is filming in Duisans, a small town in the north of France where his grandfather was killed. His body has never been found. A cross in memory of him is visible in the British cemetery of Marœuil.

They note that filming has been ongoing since Sunday. As yet, we have no idea where this footage will eventually end up, and if it will be part of something larger, or indeed, perhaps it is for one of the family history television programmes, such as the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? We will keep you posted though, as and when we hear of what is occurring with this recording. 

Visit LaVoixDuNord.fr for the original story, and for further pictures. Our thanks to Jérôme Constant for the information.

Pink Floyd and EMI Music will mark the 40th anniversary of the original UK release of The Dark Side of The Moon on Sunday (March 24th), as fans around the globe unite to turn a specially designed moon dark. Centred around a global playback of the album on PinkFloyd.com, each memory, thought and photo tweeted as fans rediscover the album will count towards the creation of a dark side of the moon.

Starting at 00:01am GMT on Sunday, for the entire day, fans all over the world will be able to share thoughts and comments via Twitter using #DarkSide40 and witness the impact as the volume of messages combine to turn the moon dark.

In the meantime, as we noted last week, each day the various official Floyd sites (pinkfloyd.com, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram) have been revealing a lovely selection of prism images by the band's long-term friend and artist, Storm Thorgerson - some of which have been newly created for this 40th anniversary. These will continue to be posted until Saturday, March 23rd, and if you've yet to check them out on PinkFloyd.com, pop over there now to see what has been posted so far...

In UK stores now is the new issue of Prog magazine, and within its pages you'll find a new four-page interview with producer and musician Alan Parsons, talking about the making of Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary-celebrating album, The Dark Side Of The Moon.

Written by Stephen Humphries, a friend of, and occasional contributor to, Brain Damage, the interview covers degrees of expected ground - no surprise in a general music publication - but also has a few new nuggets. In one segment, Parsons talks about how some of the sound effects were created, such as coins or clocks chiming. He also explains about the steps and breathing heard in On The Run - according to him it was not recorded in the pedestrian tunnel from South Kensington Underground station to the Science and Natural History Museums (as Roger Waters has noted in interviews), but at Abbey Road itself.

Elsewhere in the magazine, there's coverage of The Moody Blues, in the run-up to the release of their career-spanning 17-CD box set Timeless Flight. In their most revealing interview ever, Justin Hayward and his colleagues reveal a career that included popping pills with The Who, jamming with Jimi Hendrix, living it up with Jefferson Airplane and hanging out with The Beatles.

The magazine is housed in a cardboard slip cover, which also contains a free CD. You can purchase the magazine, either single issues or as a subscription, internationally through this direct link. Prog is also available on iPad, Google Play, Kindle and Nook.