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New Species Of Shrimp Named After Pink Floyd
A newly discovered species of shrimp has been named after rock legends Pink Floyd thanks to a deal struck between scientists who are also prog-rock fans.The ‘synalpheus pinkfloydi’ has a rather unusual but appropriate defence...
By Ed Biggs in Bizarre / Weird Wonderful on 12 April 2017
Roger Waters And Nick Mason Tease Possibility Of Pink Floyd Glastonbury Performance
Two of the remaining three members of prog-rock legends Pink Floyd have raised the tantalising prospect that the group might finally perform at Glastonbury Festival.At a press conference for the V&A Museum’s upcoming Pink Floyd...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 17 February 2017
Roger Waters Wants To Headline Glastonbury Without Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and Nick Mason are both up for headlining Glastonbury - but not together.The two musicians reunited on Thursday (16.02.17) in London to launch the upcoming 'Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 February 2017
Pink Floyd Retrospective Exhibition Announced At V&a Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has announced an exhibition next year marking the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s iconic show in 1967, which changed the art of live pop music performances.The retrospective exhibition...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 01 September 2016
Pink Floyd To Release Huge 27xcd Box Set 'The Early Years 1965-1972'
Pink Floyd have announced the release of a massive box set offering hardcore fans an in-depth retrospective of the band’s early career, a 27-disc set covering the years from their formation until 1972.Billed by the...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 28 July 2016
Royal Mail To Release Pink Floyd Commemorative Stamps
Royal Mail has announced a set of stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the formation of Pink Floyd, one of Britain’s biggest-selling rock bands ever.The limited run of ten stamps will be on pre-order sale...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 26 May 2016
David Gilmour And New Order To Perform In Charity Concert Series
The Who frontman, patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust, has recruited the bands for a week of fundraising gigs at London's Royal Albert Hall. Other performers include Simply Red, The Vaccines,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 15 February 2016
Roger Waters Agrees Divorce Settlement
The rock veteran married Durning in New York City in 2012 after a decade together, but they split earlier this year (15) and Waters filed for divorce in October (15). Waters faced...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 18 December 2015
Roger Waters Facing Gig Protest Over Anti-israel Stance
The veteran rocker is set to play a show at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, but members of a Jewish human rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, are calling for...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 October 2015
David Gilmour's Son Spotted At London's Refugee Protests
The son of the Pink Floyd guitarist was handed a 16-month prison sentence after he was pictured swinging from a war memorial in central London during a violent 2010 protest against increased university...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 26 October 2015
Roger Waters Fires Off Angry Letter To Bon Jovi Over Israel Gig
The former Pink Floyd frontman often takes aim at artists prior to scheduled gigs in the Middle East and urges them to boycott the nation as part of an ongoing cultural protest against...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2015
David Gilmour Hits Out At U.k. Government Over Protests
In 2010, the Comfortably Numb hitmaker's adopted son Charlie Gilmour was jailed for 16 months for swinging on the Cenotaph war memorial in London and jumping onto a car carrying royal protection officers...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 September 2015
Lana Del Rey's 'Honeymoon' Beaten By Dave Gilmour In Chart Battle
Dave Gilmour has topped this week’s UK album chart, beating Lana Del Rey to the number one spot. Gilmour previously landed at number one just 10 months ago with band Pink Floyd’s latest release The...
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 27 September 2015
David Gilmour Tops U.k. Albums Chart
The singer/guitarist has scored his first solo number one in nine years with Rattle That Lock. Gilmour also hit the top of the Official Album Chart last year (14) with Pink Floyd's...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 25 September 2015
Pink Floyd's Inflatable Pig 'Algie' Withdrawn From Auction
Pink Floyd’s famous inflatable pig – known as ‘Algie’ – has been withdrawn from auction after being mistakenly placed on sale having spent decades gathering dust in storage. He has been offered back to the...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 30 August 2015
Pink Floyd Pig No Longer On The Auction Block
The owners of the blow-up creature, which featured on the cover of the rock band's 1977 album Animals, were planning to sell Algie as part of a massive clear-out of their U.K. warehouse,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 30 August 2015
Pink Floyd's Flying Pig Set For Auction
Executives at Air Artists, the firm behind the floating porky, are selling off the blow-up pig as part of a rock memorabilia sale, which will also feature items created for the Rolling Stones,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 August 2015
David Gilmour 'Done' With Pink Floyd
David Gilmour is ''done'' with Pink Floyd.The 69-year-old guitarist has vowed never to reform with his two surviving bandmates Roger Waters and Nick Mason, saying it would be ''fakery'' for the rockers to reform because...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
David Gilmour Rules Out Pink Floyd Reunion
The members of the band - Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason - got back together for the historic Live 8 concerts in 2005 and the group also put out an...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
David Gilmour Recruits Former Prison Inmates For Song
The rocker was joined by thirty members of The Liberty Choir on the single, and seven of them once served time in Wandsworth Prison in London, where Gilmour's adopted son Charlie spent four...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 06 August 2015
Nick Mason Joins Jeremy Clarkson On Final Top Gear Lap
The drummer, a car enthusiast, joined Clarkson and racing driver Marino Franchitti for Clarkson's last ever drive around the Top Gear circuit to raise money for charity, more than three months after he...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 14 July 2015
Dionne Warwick Refused To Bow To Roger Waters' Pressure Over Tel Aviv Gig
Pink Floyd rocker Waters often takes aim at singers scheduled to perform in the country and urges them to boycott it as part of a cultural protest against the unrest between Israelis and...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 July 2015
Pink Floyd Lead Progressive Music Awards Nominations
The rock group's The Endless River album has put the bandmates in contention for the Grand Design, Best Album and Best Band/Artist of the Year prizes, while Kate Bush is up for two...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 26 June 2015
Pink Floyd Up For Three Progressive Music Awards
Pink Floyd have been nominated for three awards at the 2015 Progressive Music Awards. The legendary rock band's chart-topping 'The Endless River' LP sees them up for the Grand Design, Best Album and Best Band/Artist...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 25 June 2015
Lemmy, Nick Mason & Hynde Pay Tribute To The Damned In New Documentary
Don't You Wish That We Were Dead also features Duff MCKagan, Mick Jones and The Offspring's Dexter Holland, alongside The Damned stars Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Captain Sensible and Brian James. The...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 March 2015
Alan Parsons Takes Aim At Waters Over Israeli Gig Boycott Plea
Rocker Alan Parsons has attacked Pink Floyd star Roger Waters over his efforts to persuade his old studio engineer to scrap a recent show in Israel.Parsons, who engineered Pink Floyd's iconic album Dark Side of...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 February 2015
Alan Parsons Ignores Waters' Plea To Boycott Israel Gig
Alan Parsons, the rock boffin who engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon album, has ignored pleas from the band's Roger Waters to scrap a show in Israel.Waters, a longtime supporter of the...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 February 2015
Nick Mason Slams Spotify Payouts
Nick Mason has branded Spotify ''pathetic'' for artists.The Pink Floyd rocker is concerned about the rise in popularity of the streaming service because musicians receive such little revenue from the airplay they receive and thinks...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 15 January 2015
Session Drummer Steve Forman Wins Bid To Stay In U.k.
A top session musician who previously worked with David Bowie and Pink Floyd has been allowed to stay in Britain after a bid to deport him was rejected on Tuesday (13Jan15).Steve Forman, 68, faced being...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 January 2015
Stars Demand Release Of Guantanamo Bay Briton
Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters, pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor and actress Juliet Stevenson are among those who have signed an open letter calling for the release of a British man from the Guantanamo Bay detention...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 15 December 2014
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