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“Pink Floyd was bigger than a band. It was more like church. They played A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in its entirety and I thought, ‘I want to be around this all the time’”: Why Billy Howerdel is glad he copied David Gilmour badly

A Perfect Circle guitarist recalls deciding to become a musician during 1988 concert, and hails Gilmour’s substance-over-quality approach

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“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

The story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic songs

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NBA All-Star Jimmy Butler And NY Jets Owner Woody Johnson Part Of Separate Groups Bidding For Ownership Stake In Soccer Club Crystal Palace

There is a line in the hit song "Money" by Pink Floyd that says, "New car, caviar, four four-star daydream, think I'll buy me a football team." New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson can certainly relate, but it appears that one football club is not enough for him. Foxsports.com is…

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“He started playing rhythm stuff and asked me to play lead. I said, ‘Pete, it’s your album’”: How Snowy White ended up working with Peter Green on In the Skies – the comeback album that lifted the blues rock legend out of obscurity

Green spent most of the 1970s out of the limelight, but a phone call to Snowy White helped get his career back on track

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“He was disillusioned by wealth clashing with his principles. His fans thought riches were a good thing. Their reaction was the basis of everything else he did”: Roger Waters as seen via his Pink Floyd lyrics

A heartfelt, poetic and occasionally romantic lyricist, he became known for high-powered attacks on the hands that fed him

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New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time

Pink Floyd Shine On: Definitive Oral History by author Mark Blake, will be published in October

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Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie

Roger Waters new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie opens in cinemas worldwide in July, with the soundtrack being released in August

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“I became a punk – I hid my Pink Floyd records and I now had an uneasy relationship with the music”: Siobhan Fahey’s lifelong passion for prog is only hinted at in Bananarama’s name

A Frank Zappa show bored her to sleep, but the Shakespeare’s Sister masterming has remained in love with Roxy Music, Hawkwind and Syd Barrett

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“I love change. That’s what one should do with music. But I know it’s cost me a lot of fans… the music business rewards repetition”: Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Blue Öyster Cult DNA lies within Mike Scott and the Waterboys

It might not be obvious in his songs but it’s clear in his progressive attitude – he wants other musicians to get better so he can aim to outdo them

Louder

Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A new art exhibition by Bob Dylan, Cannes Film Festival, Eurovision, and the sixth instalment of Final Destination — here are this week's cultural highlights.

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii: What are the greatest live albums of all time?

This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world. With so many great live albums out there, we give you our Top…

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Pink Floyd return to top of UK album charts with 1972 Pompeii concert recording

Prog rockers score seventh No 1 album with recording of Italian gig, extending their chart run following final studio album The Endless River in 2014

The Guardian - UK

Pink Floyd score seventh UK number one album with Pompeii live recording

In the UK singles chart Alex Warren’s Ordinary remained at number one.

Evening Standard

"Even In Arcadia might divide longtime Sleep Token fans, but it will almost certainly expose metal to its biggest audience yet." Sleep Token's new album is ambitious, intense and painfully honest

Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others

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“You can see we were stoned. Dave and I were completely out of our brains”: The epic story of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii, the prog classic recorded next door to a volcano

Lights! Camera! Chaos! How Pink Floyd made their 1972 album Live At Pompeii

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“It’s one of the most affecting responses to death ever put on record”: 9 fresh long reads on tracks with astounding musical moments

Our recently published deep-dives into rock and pop classics featuring arrangement quirks, left-field riffs or abrupt rhythmic changes are collected here

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"As a document of four hungry musicians working in common cause, this stands as Pink Floyd's best live album": Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII shines new light on a counterculture classic

Once the preserve of late-night viewings, Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii now comes striding into the daylight

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII arrives on vinyl for the first time

Legendary concert film receives deluxe reissue with audio newly remixed by Steven Wilson

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“I’m imagining it was a very dry, kind of arid, close sound”: Steven Wilson on the challenges of mixing Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII, how the movie captures a band in transition, and why it is “pure Floyd”

Wilson was in conversation with former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason at a special BFI IMAX screening of Adrian Maben's recently restored and rereleased concert movie

Evening Standard

From Valerie the dachshund to Flaco the owl: the wildest animal escapes

From a sausage dog living wild for over 500 days to an owl who became a New York legend, the internet loves an animal on the run

Louder

Strange Fruit: The forgotten British psychedelic bands whose records might help pay off your mortgage

Britain's Swinging 60s gave birth to a deluge of bands lost to the mists of time – but today their releases are worth a small fortune

The Guardian - UK

‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist

The Smashing Pumpkins songwriter and guitarist on overdoing karaoke, joining Pink Floyd on stage and his secret love of Katy Perry’s Roar

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Amadou, the Malian singer of blind duo fame, dies aged 70

Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the star Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 following an illness, his family announced on Friday, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind musician.

International Business Times

Amadou Of Malian Blind Music Duo Dies Aged 70

Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the star Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 following an illness, his family told AFP on Friday, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind musician.

MusicRadar

“She opened her mouth, and out came that orgasmic sound we know and love”: How a feat of spontaneous creativity resulted in one of Pink Floyd’s most majestic moments

A gentle meditation on mortality was brought to passionate life thanks to one woman’s improvised vocal

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