In a special auction held last night, a platinum award for Pink Floyd's The Wall album was sold for €31,500 (approximately US$41,150) in aid of the Tsunami appeal.

The auction was organised by Greek National TV (ERT) and the platinum disc was a gift from Franka Wright, the Greek fashion designer who married Richard Wright in 1984. She stated that Richard loves Greece so much that he was very happy to do it. Franka presented the award herself to the eventual winner of the auction - a Greek man from Filothei, Athens. The award was one of many special items donated to the auction, which was set to raise a lot of money for the appeal.

Our thanks to George over at the Greek PF Fan Club for this news.

Shown to the right is the cover of a new book by legendary rock festival promoter Freddy Bannister, called "There Must Be A Better Way". The 330 page paperback book, with over 85 illustrations, combines the two fascinating books from the Bath and Knebworth Festival Commemorative Sets, which include Pink Floyd's involvement and are reviewed elsewhere on these pages in the past.

Nick Mason's wonderful new book "Inside Out - A Personal History Of Pink Floyd" is selling well in various countries, and will be available in the US this spring. To coincide with this, Nick will be doing a number of book signing sessions across the country, and we have exclusive details of the first of these that have been arranged.

Further to our last update (back in November last year) on the forthcoming Fender Strat Pack show DVD, we have some more news for you of this much anticipated title. The show, on September 24th, which featured Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour alongside a whole host of top musicians at the London Wembley Arena, was a charity event in aid of Nordoff-Robbins, and celebrated 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster guitar.