Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Live Earth India concert due to feature BON JOVI, PINK FLOYD star ROGER WATERS and BLACK EYED PEAS rapper will.i.am has been cancelled in the wake of the recent terror ...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Live Earth India concert, which set to feature acts such as Bon Jovi , WILL.I.AM and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters , has been canceled due to the Mumbai tragedy. Everyone involved in the canceled Dec. 7 event is “stunned and saddened by the tragic events of the past few days in our host city Mumbai,” said Live Earth founder Kevin Wall and the Office of Al Gore in a joint statement. They added: “We...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Bon Jovi, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am have been forced to pull out of Live Earth India following the recent attacks in Mumbai.
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The line-up for the forthcoming Live Earth concert, set to take place in Mumbai, India on December 7, has been expanded to include Pink Floyd's Roger Waters.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Bon Jovi are among the stars announced for this year's Live Earth concert, to be held in India.
Last Second Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
I've been listening to a bunch of Pink Floyd recently...mainly The Wall . Unfortunately, there's not much in the way of video options of PF performing certain songs from it. But here's a pretty good Roger Waters solo version of "In the Flesh."
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
Snowy White has been one of my favourite guitar players for a long time. I've even worked as an editor/translator for the official fan club for a while. Most people will know Snowy because of his hit single Bird of Paradise and some even know that he played live with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters (for instance, The Wall live in Berlin). Less people will know that Snowy also played with Al 'Year of the...
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
(#448, 15th December 1979) The 1970s ends with one of its most explicitly anti-establishment hits – Roger Waters’ direct frontal attack on the school system. Education is thought control, the flower of youthful creativity ruthlessly crushed by frustrated men grinding kids through their sausage machine. If we don’t watch out this will end up in [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Photo: Hale/Getty In this country, the British singer-songwriter Roy Harper is best known as a song title — “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper,” on Led Zeppelin III, was named in tribute to him — and a legendary accident: In 1975, when Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters had trouble nailing the vocal on his record-biz satire “Have a [...]
Fora (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Introducing this song in their famous Live 8 reunion, Roger Waters explains that it's for everyone whose not here, "particularly of course for Syd". And now, of course, Rick Wright isn't here either. Waters said how emotional it was standing up there with the three others after all those years. He couldn't have known how much extra weight those words would carry just three years later as, now, they...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
With the death this week of keyboardist Rick Wright, the dim hopes for another Pink Floyd reunion finally faded. With David Gilmour and Roger Waters's individual tours both featuring their own interpretations of choice moments from the band's back catalogue, it appears that the group's brief reformation for the Live 8 benefit concert did indeed constitute the Floyd's last hurrah.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Although he tended to be overshadowed by bandmates Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters, Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, who died on Monday following a battle with cancer, was a vital part of the group's sonic explorations. He also co-wrote several...
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
A cosmic Rock Turtleneck R.I.P. to Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright , who passed away yesterday at the age of 65. (In the photo above, Wright is, ironically, on the left.) While not a classic-rock household name like Syd Barrett or Roger Waters or David Gilmour, Wright nonetheless made many contributions to the band as keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter. For example, he wrote the beautiful,...
Left In Aboite (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd has succumbed to cancer at the age of 65. Wright, who met fellow Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college, was seen as the group's dominant musical force in their early days. "Rick's keyboards were an integral park of the Pink Floyd sound ," said Joe Boyd, a prominent record producer who worked with Pink Floyd early in its...
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Pink Floyd's keyboardist and occasional singer and songwriter Rick Wright has died yesterday aged 65. The musician, who formed the influential band with Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Syd Barrett in 1965, passed away on September, 15 after battling with cancer. A spokesman said: "The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness that Richard died today after a short...
