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Pink Floyd 1968WELCOME TO THE 26th YEAR OF BRAIN DAMAGE, YOUR PINK FLOYD, DAVID GILMOUR, NICK MASON, SYD BARRETT, RICHARD WRIGHT AND ROGER WATERS NEWS RESOURCE!

It's 2025! This year sees the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here, which is an incredible thought; where does the time go?!

The stunningly restored and remixed Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII on Blu-ray, 2CD, 2LP, DVD, digital and cinema screenings are now here - with some more cinema screenings in selected places. However you experience it, it is NOT to be missed!

There's also been three Record Store Day releases released on April 12th, from David Gilmour, Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, and Roger Waters which are also definitely worth tracking down, either in a participating store, or online, now that RSD has finished.

Last year, David Gilmour's superb new album, Luck and Strange, was released in a variety of formats, and a selection of coloured vinyls. A limited number of concert dates thrilled crowds in Brighton and London, England, Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles and New York, USA. Rome shows were filmed for release at some point...watch this space!

The Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets 2024 Set The Controls tour revealed a band in even better form than the 2022/23 shows which managed to exceed everyone's hopes and expectations! Our sincerest hopes are that they continue, but in the meantime, there's the RSD release, and the earlier live recording from London's Roundhouse on Blu-ray, DVD/2CD, and 2LP which is really excellent.

Of course, Roger Waters read three extracts from his memoirs in October 2023 at the London Palladium, so it might not be too long before that is published...he's also working on his new album based around The Bar - we'll let you know as soon as we get all the info! Before all that though is the release of Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill Live In Prague on 4LP vinyl, Blu-ray, DVD, 2CD and digital on August 1st!

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Pink Floyd coverage in Classic Rock Prog special Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Classic Rock Prog Rock issue, 2009The long-running UK magazine Classic Rock has decided to branch out into a respected genre - prog rock - with the first in a regular series of issues devoted to this branch of music. The first issue is out now, and its brightly coloured, heavily detailed card outer cover (click thumbnail to the right) will grab the attention of any Pink Floyd fans browsing the magazine racks!

Inside the card sleeve, the real cover of the magazine is revealed: Jill Furmanovsky's stunning, almost black and white image of David Gilmour's Comfortably Numb solo atop The Wall during the band's Earl's Court concerts. It sets up the reader nicely for the three features on the band.

Their cover story about the band, "Must The Show Go On?", takes a four page look at what - if anything - the future holds for Pink Floyd, the surviving members, and the band's archives, illustrated with some nice pictures.

That's followed by a four page look at Syd Barrett (not someone we would consider prog, but anyway...) and his life, in particular once he'd left the Floyd.

Finally, there's a five page, "largely unpublished" interview with Richard Wright, which was conducted back in 1999 and is a truly fascinating look at his own view on the Floyd's history, taking in his solo material too. Disarmingly honest, it takes in the faltering in his relationship with certain other band members, and the consequences of this.

Elsewhere in the magazine are articles on, and interviews with, the likes of Rush, Marillion, Rick Wakeman and Yes. It comes with an hour long CD of current prog music from around the world.

An expensive magazine, priced at a hefty £7.99, which has proved hard for many to find in UK stores, nevertheless it is arguably worth tracking down just for the interview with Richard. Supplies to stores seem to be improving a little now so our UK readers should find it a little easier to track down, and our friends across Europe and North America should find it in selected outlets as an import in due course. They also sell back issues online through this link and this special will hopefully become available there shortly.

 
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