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Pink Floyd Pull Music From Digital Platforms In Russia And Belarus
Pink Floyd have removed their music from streaming services in Russia and Belarus.The 'Comfortably Numb' rockers have announced that all of their songs released since 1987 will be wiped from "all digital music providers" in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 March 2022
Pink Floyd To Release Restored Version Of Pulse Concert Film
Pink Floyd are to release a restored version of their concert film 'P.U.L.S.E.'. The band will drop 'P.U.L.S.E. Restored & Re-Edited' on Blu-ray for the first time on 18 February 2022, nearly 27 years after...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 December 2021
Pink Floyd's Artwork For The Wall Was Cooked Up On Roger Waters' Kitchen Table
'The Wall' designer Gerald Scarfe designed the iconic artwork on Roger Waters' kitchen table.The artist - who was "befuddled" when the band asked him to get on board given his work as a political cartoonist...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 23 October 2021
Sir Paul Mccartney Honoured With Royal Mail Stamp Collection
Sir Paul McCartney is being honoured with a collection of stamps by Royal Mail.The 78-year-old music icon's solo career will be celebrated with a set of 12 postage stamps featuring photographs from the making of...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 May 2021
Liam Gallagher Claims Smoking Marijuana While Listening To Pink Floyd 'Opened His Mind'
Liam Gallagher says smoking marijuana while listening to Pink Floyd allowed his "mind to open".The former Oasis frontman has revealed getting stoned and listening to the prog rock legends' psychedelic classic 'Comfortably Numb' in total...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 04 May 2021
Gene Simmons: Rock Is Dead
Gene Simmons has claimed rock is "dead".The KISS rocker insists there has been no true rock artists since 1988, whereas before then there was the likes of Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Stones and Pink...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 11 March 2021
David Gilmour Dashes Hope Of Pink Floyd Reunion
David Gilmour has dashed hopes of a Pink Floyd reunion as he's "done" with playing live.The 'Wish You Were Here' hitmaker insists he "absolutely" doesn't want to go back to the group and play stadiums...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 10 March 2021
The Concord Art Prize Launches In The UK
A major new art prize inspired by music has been launched in the UK.The Concord Art Prize is open to artists of all levels across the country, with people being invited to create visual art...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 30 November 2020
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets Won't Record New Songs
Nick Mason says his new band his Saucerful of Secrets will not release new material.The Pink Floyd drummer is part of the group with Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp, long-time Floyd collaborator Guy Pratt, Lee Harris...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 15 August 2020
Guess Who's Back: Songs To Play When You're Returning To Work
People everywhere are beginning to return back to work this month after long periods at home on the government's furlough scheme during the coronavirus pandemic. To some, it's the end of a holiday, but to...
By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 01 July 2020
Kurt Cobain's Mtv Unplugged Guitar Sold For Record-breaking $6m
Kurt Cobain's acoustic guitar from Nirvana's iconic 1993 'MTV Unplugged in New York' performance has sold for a record-breaking $6 million (£4.85 million) at auction.The 1959 Martin D-18E - which was often out of tune...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 June 2020
David Gilmour's First Solo Song In 5 Years To Premiere On His Wife's Audiobook
David Gilmour's first new solo music in five years will be released on his wife Polly Samson's upcoming audiobook for 'A Theatre for Dreamers'.The Pink Floyd legend - whose 58-year-old spouse has co-written and collaborated...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 June 2020
Roger Waters Claims David Gilmour Banned Him From Pink Floyd's Website And Socials
Roger Waters has accused David Gilmour of locking him out of Pink Floyd's website and social media pages.The iconic band's co-founder and the guitarist have had an acrimonious relationship since Roger quit the group in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 May 2020
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets Unveil Rescheduled 2021 European Tour Dates
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets have announced their rescheduled European tour dates for 2021.The Pink Floyd drummer's spin-off supergroup were due to hit the road for the European leg of the run on May 18...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 11 May 2020
David Gilmour Critiques Nick Mason's Saucer Full Of Secrets
David Gilmour has been critiquing Nick Mason's Saucer Full of Secrets Pink Floyd spin-off project.The 76-year-old drummer has been touring with a supergroup including Guy Pratt, Lee Harris, Dom Beken and Spandau Ballet's Gary...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 18 April 2020
Pink Floyd Announce Youtube Concert Series
Pink Floyd have announced a YouTube concert series.The 'Wish You Were Here' hitmakers are set to screen their concerts every Friday, starting this week (17.04.20), in line with their usual #PinkFloydFriday Twitter series, where they...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 April 2020
Sir Paul Mccartney Backs Campaign To Stop Music Venues Closing
Sir Paul McCartney has backed a campaign to stop iconic music venues from closing.The Beatles star has spoke out in support of Labour MP John Spellar's move to introduce a bill in the Commons that...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 10 January 2018
Roger Waters Slams 'Pig Man' Donald Trump In Tour Rehearsal
Roger Waters made quite the impression with the dress rehearsal for his 'Us + Them' tour this week in New Jersey, celebrating the release of his brand new album ahead of the official tour kick-off...
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 24 May 2017
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
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