The UK newspaper, the Daily Express, included a nice picture of David Gilmour and wife Polly Samson last week at a book launch in London, on the eve of his 58th birthday (not 60th, as the Express quoted!). They asked him for his reaction at "finding himself back in the charts" - in reality, the Scissor Sisters in the top ten with their version of Comfortably Numb.

"My publisher says I gave my permission a year ago." So does he like it? "Well, I don't dislike it," smiled David. The Express then went on to say that 'obviously Dave, who recently donated the £3.6million proceeds of his house to homeless charity Crisis, didn't like it quite enough to rush out and buy a copy.' "My publisher sent me a free one," he added with a grin...

A DVD release of the 1985 Live Aid concert, held at London's Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, is at long last due out this Christmas, mainly due to chief organiser Bob Geldof's annoyance at the amount of bootleg DVD's flooding the market. Geldof tipped off police after pirated DVDs were found on the internet for £110 for a 10-disc set. Police raided a property in Lancashire and made one arrest.

If you want to hear some good music this Friday, March 12th, why not check out The Doctor's four hour (!) show at 11pm EST featuring the best of the Floyd's music from studio albums, demos, outtakes, bootlegs and more. You'll also get the final chance to hear The Doctored Remix of Dark Side Of The Moon.

Having heard this at the start of the year, we can tell you its a fascinating listen, mixing in early live segments, and demos, to form a whole new look at the piece. If you live in the Boston, MA area of the USA, the show is aired on WMFO FM; if you live anywhere else, you can listen to it through the worldwide internet stream.

More details are on The Doctor's website.

Further to our earlier news, Sony France released on February 16th a new edition of Pink Floyd The Wall DVD - the "Édition Luxe".