Our congratulations to the team behind the incredible 3D laser prism that formed the climax of Roger Waters' 2008 The Dark Side Of The Moon tour - the effect won an award in the prestigious 2009 ILDA Awards. The ceremony, held in Amsterdam, saw the International Laser Display Association give the industry's equivalent of a Hollywood Oscar to the design team for first place in the Live Stage Performance...
Filed under: News , Exclusive Pink Floyd 's classic double-record 'The Wall' has not only been a staple of rock but has also been a part of pop culture trivia, as founding drummer Nick Mason learned. "There's a [quiz show] program here [in Britain] called 'University Challenge,'" he tells Spinner. "Just by chance they happened to ask these students to name the song and the guitar player....
The world is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, as well it should. That was a great event in the annals of liberty. And it reminds me of the concert that was done there a year later when Roger Waters performed The Wall live. The show included American and Russian soldiers, choirs and orchestral musicians as well as a number of other famous singers doing some of the songs....
Just a reminder to you of an unmissable two-part, two-hour radio special airing Monday (November 16th, 2009), and the following Monday (November 23rd, 2009). To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of its release, the well-respected interviewer Redbeard makes Pink Floyd The Wall the subject of his In The Studio show, interviewing Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, all looking back at the album,...
The release of The Final Cut in 1983 exposed the serious tensions between the members of Pink Floyd and led many to wonder about the future of the group. The project (the follow-up to The Wall) was clearly the creative vision of Roger Waters who wrote every song on the album, and must have left [...]
Ummagumma is a double album by Pink Floyd, released in 1969 by Harvest and EMI in the United Kingdom and Harvest and Capitol in the United States. The first disc is a live album of their normal set list of the time, while the second contains individual compositions by each member of the band recorded as a studio album. The album's title supposedly comes from a Cambridge slang word for sex, commonly...
I trust I'm not alone in thinking Pink Floyd bassist Richard Gere and actor Roger Waters were separated at birth, am I? Roger Waters (left) and Richard Gere (right)
New issue of Mojo magazine features Roger Waters / Pink Floyd on the front cover. FREE CD! THE WALL RE-BUILT: DISC ONE! MOJO celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s dark masterpiece with an exclusive re-recording featuring Sweet Billy Pilgrim, The Young Republic, The Amazing, Astra, Woodpigeon and many more. PINK FLOYD: It has been his greatest obsession for 30 years, but how does the...
Published on November 1st, the new issue (number 193, dated December 2009, click thumbnail to the left) of the UK's Mojo Magazine covers Pink Floyd's The Wall with an exclusive interview with Roger Waters who talks about the construction, deconstruction and the Broadway rebuild! Additionally, Mark Blake takes a detailed look back at the 1980 shows with comments from the principles and loads of great...
During the Q&A session that accompanied the Flaming Lips' pop-up store/show thing in Los Angeles last week, Wayne "let it slip" that the band had joined forces with Stardeath And White Dwarfs to cover the entire Dark Side Of The Moon LP, featuring guest spots from Peaches and Henry Rollins. At their Friday morning stop at KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic , Coyne filled in the gaps a bit...
Our congratulations to Roger Waters who was yesterday one of 21 top songwriters who won an ASCAP Song Award at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. He won the award for Money, which of course appeared on Pink Floyd's 1973 album. The ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) awards honour those writer and pubisher members of the UK's Performing Rights Society whose repertoire is...
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RadioIndy is pleased to present Finlay Morton with a GrIndie Award for the CD "Back to Basics 2009 Remix" Finlay Morton takes a crop of classic rock influences and fuses them together with some country, resulting in a fine album called "Back to Basics 2009 Remix." Morton's songwriting is very similar to that of Tom Petty, with Americana flowing throughout the album and the sound...
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking was the first solo album released by British musician Roger Waters following his split from Pink Floyd. It is a concept album about a man who fantasizes about an extramarital affair during a midlife crisis. The album...
To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of its release, the well-respected interviewer Redbeard makes Pink Floyd The Wall the subject of a two-part, two-hour special airing the weeks of November 16th, 2009, and November 23rd, 2009 on his In The Studio show. The show will feature interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, all looking back at the album, and so shouldn't be missed! In...
Due to a few recent references, I decided to give them a spin for the first time in quite a few years, and I was quite suprised to find how bored I was by so much of their stuff. I definitely subscribe to the earlier the better cliche :Syd through to and including Meddle, avoiding Atom Heart Mother entirely ( boring and aimlessly pretentious ). Piper, Saucerful, Ummagumma live, Obscured by Clouds...
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