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“We put a lot of money, time and effort into it, then it disappeared.” The story of Metallica: Through The Never – how metal’s biggest band and a Spider-Man star disastrously bombed at the box office

Metallica wanted to make their answer to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same, and even hired future Spider-Man star Dane DeHaan to help. But then Metallica: Through The Never became one of the band’s most costly misadventures.

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Recorded between the gruelling Animals tour and the psycho-drama that was The Wall, the sentiments Richard Wright expressed in Wet Dream could apply to Pink Floyd as much as to his disintegrating marriage...

Richard Wright's Wet Dream album: The Pink Floyd keyboardist’s underrated solo debut remixed

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"Loath to actually leave Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett made it so they had to chuck him out. And none of them ever got over it": Storm Thorgerson's documentary on the Pink Floyd founder reviewed

Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett And Pink Floyd reviewed

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“Updating The Wall for disaffected, mid-90s youth”: The prog roots of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral

Trent Reznor’s 1994 epic explored the collapse of a character like Pink Floyd had done 15 years earlier - but in a musically different manner

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"I had a phone call from Dave Gilmour and he said, 'Would you be interested in coming down?'. Former XTC man Colin Moulding on how he almost joined Pink Floyd!

Revelations from former XTC bassist, singer and songwriter Colin Moulding when he released his TC&I EP Great Aspirations with old band mate Terry Chambers

Louder

Listen to Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall,' as decoded from human brain waves

Researchers reconstructed recognizable snippets of the classic Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall" using listeners' recorded brain activity.

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"It sounds a bit like they’re speaking underwater, but it’s our first shot at this": scientists have recreated Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall using patients' brainwaves

Boffins made the breakthrough while study the auditory regions of the brain - and you can hear the results

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Neuroscientists Reconstructed Snippets of a Pink Floyd Song From a Person’s Thoughts

A new study discovers a brain region called the superior temporal gyrus is necessary for perceiving musical rhythm and recreating it from brain activity.

Inverse

Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients’ brain waves. The tech could eventually allow for communication without words

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Fortune

“We’ve had a few Floyd moments… we got a giant ghetto blaster on a boat and parked it in the harbour… we closed down an airport for six hours!” The Orb were prog all along

Accidental albums with David Gilmour and Robert Fripp aren’t the only connections Alex Paterson’s psychedelic electronic group have with the progressive genre

Louder

"People were very down on us after Syd left. Everyone thought Syd was all the group had": In the wake of the worldwide success of The Dark Side Of The Moon, David Gilmour remembered when Pink Floyd were written off as yesterday's men

Pink Floyd's management weren't the only ones who thought the group were doomed after Syd Barrett's exit

Louder

“For me, Wish You Were Here is the most satisfying album. I really love it. I'd rather listen to that than Dark Side of the Moon”: David Gilmour opens up on the creative tension that built Pink Floyd's classic records

In this classic GW interview, the Stratocaster icon discusses the “egocentric megalomaniacal tension” that shaped Dark Side of the Moon, how he constructed the Comfortably Numb solo, and the time he used a mic stand leg as a slide

Guitar World

"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

Louder

"It connects with me in a way that I just can't describe, creating a very special environment that no other record can achieve": Chris Cornell on the Pink Floyd album he loved the most

Late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell discovered his favourite Pink Floyd album in his old landlord's record collection

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Pink Floyd grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus BJH, Soft Machine, Voyager, The Fierce & The Dead, Arjen Lucassen, Enslaved, Mystery, Godsticks and more...

Louder

"A lot of people were saying that they didn’t even know this record existed": Steven Wilson says Richard Wright's reissued 1978 solo album Wet Dream is like "a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album"

Having remixed Richard Wright's debut solo album Wet Dream for reissue, Steven Wilson compares it to “a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album that you’ve never heard”

Guitar World

Here’s what you voted the greatest acoustic guitar song of all time – and the winner might be controversial

The track beat Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven and Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here to the top spot

Evening Standard

Abbey Road Studios opens to the public this summer - here’s how to visit

Music fans can step inside the iconic recording studios this August.

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“We probably did about as much as we could have... but I have a regret or two”: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects on what he might have done differently with Syd Barrett

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour looks back on his relationship with Syd Barrett in new documentary

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“He didn’t like to be reminded of the past… he went to his sister’s to watch a documentary about him and Pink Floyd, but left, complaining it was too loud”: Syd Barrett was more than just another mad genius

The psychedelic visionary just wasn’t interested in his own legacy after abandoning the music industry in 1972 – but he never stopped creating

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Bertelsmann Faces Pressure To Sever Ties With Roger Waters Amid Antisemitism Allegations

Jewish Organizations Urge Bertelsmann Subsidiary to Cut Ties with Roger Waters Over Antisemitism Concerns

The Guardian - UK

On Ukraine’s musical frontline: how pop and classical stars have taken up arms

From nights at the opera to the nation’s best-loved bands, music is playing a vital role in resistance to the Russian invasion – many musicians have actually gone to the frontline

The Independent UK

Roger Waters to re-release stripped back version of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon

Rock album turns 50 this year, amid an ongoing feud between former bandmates Waters and David Gilmour

Guitar World

Roger Waters has shared the first single from his re-recording of The Dark Side of the Moon – and there's not a guitar solo in sight

The former Pink Floyd bassist's reinterpretation of Money swaps Gilmour's searing solos for brooding acoustics and a reflective spoken word passage

Louder

Roger Waters teases new Dark Side Of The Moon redux

Roger Waters announced in February that he'd re-recorded Dark Side Of The Moon without any of the current members of Pink Floyd.

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