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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!
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Pink Floyd The Wall book competition - winners |
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Written by Matt
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Monday, 03 May 2004 |
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Over the last month, we've run a competition to win one of three copies of the new book "Pink Floyd The Wall: In The Studio, On Stage and On Screen", published by Reynolds & Hearn today! The books have been sent from Brain Damage HQ today to the following lucky people, plucked from the inflatable pig containing all the many correct answers:
* Marek Grzesiak, Warszawa, Poland
* Thanasis Tsilderikis, Canterbury, Kent, UK
* Terrence Reardon, Summerville, SC, USA
Well done to these three, and better luck next time to those who weren't picked from piggy! If you weren't fortunate this time, but still want to read the book, it can be ordered from Amazon and other good retailers.
Finally, here's the answers we were looking for:
1. Who was responsible for the striking artwork? Gerald Scarfe
2. What was unusual about the first live show in 1980? What caused a halt to proceedings? The show's fireworks which miscued during the opening of "In The Flesh?" caused a fire, which eventually escalated to the point it couldn't go unnoticed any more. Once the ashes started falling from the curtains it was apparent that the show had to stop. Roger announced they had to put out the fire they had 'up there' and the show resumed after the fire crew put the fire out.
3. Where was the final live performance of The Wall (city and location)? We accepted either London, Earls Court Exhibition Hall, (June 1981) or Potzdamer Platz, Berlin, (July 1990). We didn't specify WHO performed the last show, but obviously the likes of Cyndi Lauper "singing" Another Brick gave some of you too many nightmares!
4. What legendary band were lined up to provide some harmonising vocals on the album? Roger had envisaged Beach Boys-like 'saccharine' vocal harmonies, in the track 'The Show Must Go On', in particular. Roger said in the 1980 Jim Ladd interview that they were asked to do it and they agreed to it, "and then they went off and toured Japan or something instead." Roger: "I think they were quite into doing it. Mind you, they hadn't all seen all the stuff about the 'racialist' stuff that comes in some of the songs we asked them to sing. I don't know how they would have responded to that. Because Bruce Johnston actually came down and did some." Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys called Roger and told him "I'm not sure that The Beach Boys wanna sing "That one's Jewish, that one's a coon, that one's a queer and all of that but I'll put together a team that will get the vibe" (quote from In The Studio for The Wall, interview with Roger Waters, July 1989). The studio recording did, indeed, include Bruce Johnston, who - although not a founding member - was, technically, a member of The Beach Boys.
5. Name the actor who played the Teacher in the film of The Wall. Alex McAvoy played the teacher and would go on to appear in the Pink Floyd Final Cut Video EP.
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