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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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Roger Waters passes Madonna for solo tour record Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Saturday, 05 October 2013

Roger Waters ticket 2013Billboard.com have just reported that Roger Waters, with the ticket sales now in from the final shows of the 2013 European tour, has set the solo artist ticket sales record, eclipsing Madonna and reaching third place in the overall standings (which includes groups). With $81.3 million in ticket sales reported for the final leg through 27 shows in 26 European cities, the tour as a whole totalled an impressive $459 million from 219 performances. For the 2013 show, a total of 830,123 fans attended (from a maximum possible of 915,081)

The tour originally launched in September 2010, and with the amount of equipment, staging, transportation and personnel involved in the complete production, it was never going to be a cheap enterprise to run so we'd be interested to know just how much of this amount ended up as profit. Ticket prices, in particular compared to other performers, were on the whole set at a fair level.

Billboard report that "the $459 million gross surpasses the solo record of $407 million previously set by Madonna with her Sticky & Sweet tour in 2008-09 and grants Waters with the third highest-grossing tour of all time. Only U2 and the Rolling Stones grossed more from a single tour. Sales from U2's 360° tour totalled $736 million (2009-2011) and the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang tour grossed $558 million from 2005-2007.

As previously reported, Roger Waters will also be giving the Keynote Q&A at the 10th Annual Billboard Touring Conference, scheduled for November 13th/14th at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

 
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