This week, legendary film director Adrian Maben visits a film festival in Italy to receive a career award.

Adrian has had a long, productive career. Within the Floyd community, he is best known for Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii, in its original cinema released format, and the two subsequent expanded versions, and for the DVD which accompanied the double CD set of Roger Waters' opera, Ca Ira.

Back in October 2004 we reported on the then-forthcoming US and Canadian Region 1 release of the "Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story" DVD. The DVD featured wonderful all-new cover art, shown to the right.

The cover was designed by acclaimed British artist Mark Wilkinson (who produced covers for the likes of Marillion, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and many others), and he has got back in contact with us.

He is having an online auction during the month of October, selling some original paintings including the Syd painting.

A superb new book focusing on the formative years of the Floyd is being published at the end of October this year.

"Pink Floyd: The Early Years" has been written by Barry Miles, which will be a familiar name to many Floyd fans, having penned "The Visual Documentary" - a book which for many years was a standard reference to the group. Miles saw the band play when they were still called "The Pink Floyd Sound" and he wrote the first ever article about them for a New York underground newspaper in 1966.