Today's Guardian newspaper in the UK highlights Pink Floyd as one of the bands responsible for "the most overblown extravaganzas from the annals of rock follies"!

Inspired by Elton John playing 75 shows in Las Vegas over the next three years, the piece talks about Pink Floyd in these less than glowing terms:

We were contacted yesterday by Vernon Fitch, who has written a book about The Wall, as previously reported on these news pages over the last six months or so. Vernon's long-awaited book, not now being published by Reynolds & Hearn (who are issuing a different book as previously reported), will be released by a different publisher later this year. Here is the description that Vernon wrote in May 2003 for the back of his Wall book:

The Pink Floyd Interstellar exhibition in Paris proved to be a great success. We contacted the Cite de la Musique today to see how it went, and they were very pleased to tell us that over 60,000 people attended over the three months that it was open. They were surprised by the amount of press, radio and TV coverage it got, and mentioned that the previous exhibition they held - about Jimi Hendrix - got 45,000 visitors.

The new album by band Monster Magnet, called "Monolithic Baby!", is released on February 16th, and amongst the tracks, featuring their "typical, unmistakable mix of early Black Sabbath quotations, references to space rock inventors Hawkwind, the British psychedelic era of the Sixties and German psychedelic rock from the Seventies" (!) is a song better known as performed by someone more familiar to the Floyd fan...

"There’s No Way Out Of Here", originally performed by Unicorn, and re-recorded and released by David Gilmour on his first solo album in 1978, comes two-thirds the way through the album. "As far as I’m concerned, this was the last real Pink Floyd classic, even if it came out on Gilmour’s solo record," lead singer Dave Wyndorf reckons.

As the song wasn't even written by Gilmour, a bold claim!