William Shatner, Star Trek's original Captain Kirk, is releasing a new album. One of the tracks to receive his unique delivery is Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly". The track listing for "Searching For Major Tom", which will be released later this year (2011) by Cleopatra Records, reveals some interesting choices.

Guest performances on the likes of Space Trucking, Rocket Man, Space Cowboy, Spirit in the Sky, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Space Oddity, include Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice, Steve Howe, Johnny Winter, Michael Schenker, Steve Hillage, Ritchie Blackmore, Alan Parsons, Peter Frampton, Dave Davies, Carmine Appice and John Wetton. Learning to Fly includes Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream on guitar and keyboards.

Our thanks to Skip Hill and Ray Vawter for the info.

In the latest of our exclusive interviews, we're having another chat with Jon Carin - and if you have any burning questions for Jon about his long career working with Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, as well as with The Who, Bryan Ferry, Richard Butler, Dream Academy and more...well, now's your chance!

Want to know some insider details on The Wall tour? What instruments Jon uses and prefers? We'll put the best questions received to Jon - just make sure you send in your questions to us (using the normal email address of This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by Wednesday, April 20th, to be included.

Just a quick reminder for you all: tomorrow (April 16th) sees the release of a limited edition vinyl set of "An Introduction to Syd Barrett" as part of its participation in the annual Record Store Day. The sets will be sold only at participating independent music retailers across the United States, and possibly selected outlets in other countries.

The Syd set will consist of two 180-gram vinyl LPs with a gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeves. Released on October 11th, 2010 on CD and downloadable from iTunes, "An Introduction to Syd Barrett" on EMI/Harvest Records is a new collection that has brought together for the first time the tracks of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett on one compilation. Check out our review here.

There will also be a limited release tomorrow of the Pink Floyd "London 66-67" on 180gm heavyweight white vinyl. The classic Syd Barrett-era Floyd at their most adventurous and exploratory, it features two great performances, including an explosive 17 minute version of 'Interstellar Overdrive', and the otherwise unreleased 'Nick's Boogie'.

For more information on Record Store Day, visit www.recordstoreday.com.

A bit of advance notice for you (particularly those in the UK, or with an online subscription to the newspaper) - this Sunday (April 17th) sees an exclusive interview with Roger Waters by award winning journalist Louise Gannon in Sunday Times Magazine.

This comes with the main newspaper, sold throughout the UK and in certain places across Europe (although some countries do not include the magazines and other supplements). It will also be viewable online from Sunday morning for those who have subscribed.