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“I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd

"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

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“There’s going to be a feeling of loss but a huge sense of relief… I’ve had my time with them. I’m finding new friends now and they can move on”: When David Gilmour auctioned 123 of his guitars for charity

Just before he raised a record-breaking $21.5m, the veteran axe hero showed and played some of the historic instrument’s he’d decided to part with

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"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?": In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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"Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job

It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

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“I can’t explain what it is about a guitar that makes it special. This one is different”: David Gilmour couldn’t bear to sell this guitar at auction – now it’s all over his new solo album

The Pink Floyd legend is showcasing the guitars he used to record his upcoming record – and one is a vintage six-string he held back from the mammoth Gilmour auction in 2019

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“David Gilmour had been playing the riff. I said, ‘And then what happens?’ And he said, ‘No, that’s it.’ I said, ’Do you mind if I see what happens next?’” Roger Waters reflects on writing Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here – and the meaning behind it

David Gilmour's Wish You Were Here guitar intro served as the catalyst that inspired the beloved Pink Floyd track

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"Led Zeppelin left behind a body of music that defined the term 'progressive rock', but in the truest sense of the word": The case for Led Zeppelin, uncrowned kings of prog rock

A blues band? A hard rock band? Think again

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“We are engaged here tonight in part of a larger existential battle for the very soul of the human race.” Watch Roger Waters play Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here at London concert promoting peace, freedom and justice for Palestine

Roger Waters labels Labour leader Keir Starmer a "genocide enabler" at Stand Up For Palestine benefit show in London

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“We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight

Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

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The paradox of the Lakers’ head coaching job

Is the Lakers' head coaching job an attractive and coveted one, or is it a toxic one?

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"Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single

The story behind the Pink Floyd song the band kept in their vaults for almost 50 years

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"I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist

Warning: Contains spoilers

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"He's a piece of work, that deluded old freak." Disturbed's David Draiman says former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters is a "monster"

Disturbed frontman David Draiman has called out Roger Waters over his controversial views and behaviour

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Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky takes the music of Pink Floyd up into the clouds

Gala Wright collaborates with Brainstorms to create an interactive installation that explores the emotional reaction to Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’

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“Everyone’s story is different… All I can say is he was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s surprise visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio

Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

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Eric Clapton says Pink Floyd's Roger Waters suffers "terribly" from sharing his political views and has seen him “sit on the window ledge in tears”

Eric Clapton says that he thinks Roger Waters has "a lot of guts" when it comes to sharing his political opinions, and has seen him suffer "terribly" for it

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"When David Bowie walked into the room, it was like the messiah walked in." Drum legend Steve DiStanislao recalls the night that David Bowie performed a Syd Barrett classic with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Richard Wright

Steve DiStanislao looks back on playing alongside David Bowie, David Gilmour and Richard Wright for one very special evening

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“It was an unusual paradox: most acts keep recording stylistically similar albums… Porcupine Tree were being harassed for daring to not transform”: But Lightbulb Sun matters more than you may think

After veering too close to becoming a “new Pink Floyd,” their seventh album was a key moment in their development through psychedelia, classic prog, krautrock and pop rock to the truly progressive sound they made their own

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“The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition

Pioneers’ ‘punkest’ record gets the Atmos Blu-ray treatment to impressive effect, claiming the music back for proggers

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“While I was on the phone, there was this loud noise in the background… It was David, who had been working on one note all day long for two weeks”: He’s spent decades chasing David Gilmour’s guitar tone – now Steve McElroy reveals what he’s learned

The Australian Pink Floyd Show mastermind has bought just about every piece of gear Gilmour has ever used. He reveals the secrets behind his Strat tones and techniques – and settles a few myths and legends

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Exploring The Top 10 Iconic American Album Covers

Explore iconic album covers from legendary musicians like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Nirvana, showcasing visual artistry and symbolism.

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"Our heyday was ninety-five per cent musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter": David Gilmour on the past, the present and the future of Pink Floyd

David Gilmour on Rattle That Lock, Endless River, and 50 years of Pink Floyd

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That time Roger Waters hooked up with Foo Fighters to cover a Pink Floyd classic

Yes, this actually happened

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Nirvana, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Joy Division among artists with the best-selling vinyl albums of the 21st century released between 1970 and 1999

The biggest selling vinyl albums released in the '70s, '80s, and '90s have been revealed: how many do you own?

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Watch David Gilmour wring every ounce of emotion from the guitar solo on Prince's Purple Rain – with Tom Jones

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour gives a TV audience a solo of epic Floydian scale

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