Longtime Pink Floyd cover artist and collaborator Storm Thorgerson, who was instrumental on the staging of a major exhibition of the band in Paris, and who, on the eve of the exhibition sadly suffered a stroke, has updated his website with his thoughts on Interstellar.

The updates, found within the "News Room" section of the "Anecdotes" part of StormThorgerson.com, talk about the recent Interstellar exhibition, which ran from October 2003 to the end of January 2004 (reviewed elsewhere on this site in detail).

Pink Floyd have been named as one of the bands that "changed the world", in a line-up just published by long running, respected music publication, Q Magazine.

Topping the list of the 50 most influential bands is The Sex Pistols, who "shook the world with their anti establishment views and riotous behaviour", and they were followed by the likes of The Beatles (who came second), Nirvana (third), The Beach Boys (fourth) and NWA (Niggaz With Attitude) who came in surprisingly in fifth place.

Pink Floyd did disappointingly, coming in at 40th, edging out the likes of Depeche Mode, New Order and Roxy Music, who came at the foot of the list. Despite incredible sales of albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd's relative anonymity with the public dented their chances at appearing higher in the list.

The BBC Radio 4 documentary on Dark Side Of The Moon, originally broadcast on September 16th 2003, is getting a rebroadcast on March 27th at 10:30am GMT.

The documentary, presented by political correspondent Matthew Parris, an unlikely commentator, was an interesting if short (30 minutes) look at the album, with interview segments from members of the band, Bob Geldof (eating humble pie over his original views on the album!), ex-Rolling Stone journo and celebrity chef Loyd Grossman, and others. Sadly, there were no new interviews with the band themselves, but the snippets that were used worked well in their context. A Tuesday lunchtime was a strange time to broadcast the show though - and the repeat on a Saturday morning is just as odd! As with all BBC shows, it can be heard via the BBC website.

Guitarist Magazine have just released "The Guitarist Book of Classic Rock" which contains 250 pages of interviews, profiles and transcriptions. It is a great read, and has some interesting Floyd items within it: