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Monday, 20 December 2004 |
A new campaign organised by Blues musician Matt Schofield to raise money for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, which uses instruments to help sick or disabled children and adults, has enlisted a number of musicians including Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, the BBC news site reports.
The rock, pop, jazz and classical musicians - and Sir Patrick Moore - have been remembering their first foray into the world of music as part of a campaign to encourage parents to buy instruments for their children. Jazz musician Courtney Pine recalls his friends "laughing their heads off" when he tried out his first saxophone, while Nick Mason remembers saving up his shillings for his first drum kit...
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Monday, 20 December 2004 |
The musician and composer Ron Geesin, who collaborated with Roger Waters on the album "Music From The Body" (the soundtrack to the film of the same name), and then co-wrote Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother", played a rare, one-off concert on Sunday, December 12th.
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Wednesday, 15 December 2004 |
Last week (with an update a couple of days ago), we reported that Pink Floyd's David Gilmour took part in a special concert held at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios, to record a a celebration of 50 years of rock'n'roll.
With thanks to the executive producer of the whole production, Pierre Sarazin, we now have more detail on this one-off performance, that will be seeing the light of day during 2005.
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Wednesday, 15 December 2004 |
A reminder for our European visitors that a tribute to the late, great John Peel is on tonight, in three programmes on digital TV channel BBC 4 which celebrate the life of the British DJ. One of the programmes includes Pink Floyd and Ron Geesin, amongst others...
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Tuesday, 14 December 2004 |
To celebrate the release of the new, limited edition DVD of the movie "Pink Floyd - The Wall", we some very special prizes for you in a competition that ended on December 5th. We were snowed under with entries (unsurprisingly) and have now gone through them all and picked three lucky winners!
The new, limited edition features all-new packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon, based on the original designs by Gerald Scarfe. The slipcover features debossed bricks, and inside, a reproduction of the original movie poster as supplied to Storm by Brain Damage!
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