The combined wishes of all of us on the Brain Damage team, along no doubt with many of you reading this, go to Roger Waters, who celebrates his 73rd birthday today.

Roger was born in Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1943, moving to Cambridge when he was two years old. It was there that he met, and became childhood friends with, a number of key people in the story of Pink Floyd. We hope you have a great day, Roger. Many happy returns!

Of course, Roger has been extremely busy over the last few years, having successfully taken Dark Side Of The Moon on tour in 2006, through to 2008. On completing that, he immediately started work on a new version of The Wall - which finally opened in September 2010. That tour was spectacularly successful, wrapping up in Paris for show number 217 in September 2013. Recordings of that tour turned into the film, shown in cinemas and released on DVD/Blu-ray and as part of a mammoth, Super Deluxe Edition.

Not one to rest on his laurels, he is now getting ready for two shows in Mexico City this month, before four shows taking place next month. There is talk of his new album getting close to completion, potentially being accompanied by a tour next year, and Roger's autobiography too is also being worked on. Busy times!

Announced this morning, with another flight for Algie - proof that you can't keep a good pig down - was the staging of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, which will be held at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) from May 13th - October 1st, 2017.

Originally planned to open in Milan two years ago, the exhibition is a collaboration of all remaining band members, and will be an immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey through Pink Floyd’s extraordinary world. A story of sound, design and performance, the exhibition will chronicle the music, iconic visuals and staging of the band, from the underground psychedelic scene in 1960s London to the present day, illustrating their groundbreaking use of special effects, sonic experimentation, powerful imagery and social commentary.

Tickets are now available to purchase via the V&A and other ticketing partners. Full details below...

The exhibition will celebrate Pink Floyd's place in history as the cultural landscape changed throughout the 1960s and beyond. Pink Floyd occupied a distinctive experimental space and were the foremost exponents of a psychedelic movement that changed the understanding of music forever. They became one of the most important groups in contemporary music.

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, with sonic experience by Sennheiser, will celebrate the band’s era-defining work in composition, staging, design, film, music technology, graphic design and photography. It will feature more than 350 objects and artefacts including never-before-seen material, presented alongside works from the V&A’s outstanding collections of art, design, architecture and performance. Highlights will include spectacular set and construction pieces from some of Pink Floyd's most innovative and legendary album covers and stage performances including The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and The Division Bell, instruments, music technology, original designs, architectural drawings, handwritten lyrics and psychedelic prints and posters.

Gerald Scarfe is holding an exhibition at the Barbican Library in London during the next couple of months, from September 5th - October 31st, 2016. Called "Music & Scarfe", it covers the side of his career that doesn't include his political work, and concentrates on the stuff he's done within the world of music.

Inevitably, with his work for the band over the years, from 1974 through to The Wall in particular, Pink Floyd is to play a decent size part within the exhibition – apart from some original work, there will be prints and also some really interesting memorabilia. Some of his designs for The Wall have never been exhibited before.

Gerald is also making an appearance at the Barbican Library on 14th September between 12.30pm - 1.30pm to sign books etc.. More details can be seen on the two posters for the event, which you can see to the left - click the thumbnails.

If you are in or near London whilst the exhibition is on - and bear in mind that this is running whilst David Gilmour performs his final five shows on his Rattle That Lock tour, at London's Royal Albert Hall - it should definitely be worth checking out.

Roger Waters is going unplugged and joining the likes of Metallica, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson and Norah Jones for Neil Young's 30th annual acoustic Bridge School Benefit Concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on October 22nd and 23rd.

The lineup also includes Case/lang/Veirs (the project of singer-songwriters k.d. lang, Neko Case and Laura Veirs), My Morning Jacket, Cage the Elephant and Nils Lofgren, as well as Neil Young performing with his band Promise of the Real (featuring Willie’s son Lukas Nelson). All the acts are scheduled to perform both days.

Tickets, priced from $44.50 to $199.50, go on sale at 10am EST next Monday, August 29th. Proceeds benefit the school Neil and ex-wife Pegi Young founded in 1986 to help children with severe speech and physical impairments. The event has previously featured performers like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Elton John, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Santana and more, with this year's participants Metallica having previously performed at the show twice.

Tickets for the first show, which takes place at 5pm on the 22nd, will be available through this link, and for the second show, at 2pm on the 23rd, through this link.