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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 and cinema/IMAX screenings, and a book, 2Blu-ray, 3DVD, 4LP, 2CD and deluxe box set options have now been announced.

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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Upcoming Live 8 BBC TV documentary Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 13 December 2005

This Christmas on BBC TV, the Live 8 concerts that occurred in July are analysed in a two-part documentary, which includes the headlining reunion of Pink Floyd with Roger Waters.

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The first part, "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today", shows how Bob Geldof, Bono and Richard Curtis pulled together nine concerts with over a hundred top-selling artists in less than three months, with exclusive behind the scenes footage of the run-up to the event and in-depth interviews with Live 8's all-star cast.

The film reveals how Geldof persuaded Pink Floyd to bury the hatchet after 25 years and why an argument over The Killers threatened to tear the organising team apart.

The second, and concluding part, "A Bittersweet Symphony", shows how the event was designed to send world leaders the loudest of messages - that they must give more help to Africa. Includes musical highlights and interviews with Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Annie Lennox, and Bono.

After the London concert the focus shifted to Gleneagles, as activists waited to see if their voice had been heard. At that moment terrorists bombed London, throwing the G8 into disarray.

The documentary will be screened over two consecutive evenings, on BBC1. Part one airs on Tuesday 20th December, at 10:35pm, and is an hour long. The second part follows on Wednesday 21st, at 10:40pm, and is slightly longer at an hour and twenty minutes.

If you miss either part, the whole documentary is repeated as a single entity, on Sunday 1st January, at 1am, on BBC2 TV.

The BBC are also showing highlights from the Live 8 concert in London, on 28th December, between 10am and midday on BBC1.


 
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