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Marking the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's iconic 1975 album, a range of Wish You Were Here 50 celebratory editions: deluxe box set, blu-ray, 3LP set, 2CD set and coloured vinyl single LPs came out at the end of last year. Full details here. The LA 1975 concert, recorded by Mike Millard and remastered by Steven Wilson, came out as a standalone item on 4LP for Record Store Day, and 2CD across most of the world.

The stunningly restored and remixed Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII on Blu-ray, 2CD, 2LP, DVD, and digital was also released in 2025 - and is NOT to be missed. As is the 4K UltraHD edition out now!

Also last year, celebrating the concerts to coincide with David Gilmour's album, Luck and Strange, cinema/IMAX screenings, and a book, 2Blu-ray, 3DVD, 4LP, 2CD and deluxe box set options were also released and are getting very high praise.

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 their 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 much longer 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 which is out now.

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Pink Floyd producer Norman "Hurricane" Smith book winners Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Saturday, 13 September 2008

john lennon called me normalAs many of you will recall, legendary producer, and later recording artist in his own right, Norman "Hurricane" Smith, sadly passed away in March.

In recent years, he was working on the full publication of his memoirs, in the book "John Lennon Called Me Normal". Containing many rare pictures, much of which have not been seen before, the book contains his sharp and amusing story of working with the Beatles and Pink Floyd at Abbey Road.

As a fitting tribute to Norman, his long-awaited book has now been published through specialists Lulu.com, and we had five copies to give away to Brain Damage visitors. Were you one of the lucky winners? Read on to find out!

We were knocked out by the sheer volume of entries for the competition, and the unusual nature of these. Once the competition had been running for a short while, the vast majority of entries we were receiving all came from the fairer sex. Now, we normally get ladies entering our competitions but to receive almost exclusively female entries is rather unusual!

Anyway, to the winners, all of which correctly identified that Amos Gherkin was the name that Norman Smith was considering using for his solo recording career, until he decided on Hurricane Smith:

  • Jort Maas, Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands
  • Helen Winter, Scunthorpe, England
  • Leighton Davies, Neath, Wales
  • Caroline Gossage, Leeds, England
  • Annamaria Colitti, Sala Consilina, Italy

Our congratulations to these five lucky winners, and better luck to those who weren't fortunate this time around. You can order the book now from Lulu.com, the ONLY place you can buy it!

 
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