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As Dark Side of the Moon: Redux shows, when it comes to lyrics, less is usually more

There’s a scene in The Simpsons episode, Lisa The Simpson (1998), where Lisa is watching a jazz violinist’s performance and a man is criticising it. “You have to listen to the notes she doesn’t play,” Lisa says in the music’s defence. “I can do that at home,” the man drily…

The Conversation

Billionaire Apollo CEO calls on University of Pennsylvania donors to send just $1 in protest until two leaders resign

Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, has called for a change of management at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fortune

Pink Floyd fans left unimpressed after Roger Waters ‘tells audience to f**k off’ during ‘awkward’ London show

The musician left the audience stunned after he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing as had been billed

Evening Standard

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Roger Waters ‘spent 30 minutes reading from unpublished memoir’ during ‘awkward’ London show

Controversial musician apparently scolded hecklers and ‘ranted about Julian Assange’ during performance described by critics as ‘uncomfortable’

The Independent UK

OPINION - Roger Waters should be allowed to play, it’s the weak response from so-called allies I’m furious about

The rock singer’s anti-semitic statements should be greeted without apologism, as they would be if they referred to any other marginalised group

Evening Standard

Roger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary

Investigation interviews those who claim to have heard several derogatory references to Jews

The Guardian - UK

Roger Waters accused of using antisemitic language by Pink Floyd producer

Legendary Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin among those interviewed in documentary about Waters’ inflammatory behaviour

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Penn Leaders Cite Academic Freedom, Allowing Events Although Incompatible With Penn’s Values

Penn leaders allow the event to proceed despite some speakers’ antisemitic history

Zenger

"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

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.

LiveScience

“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

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”

Louder

"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

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Who sampled Pink Floyd? The best, worst and just plain oddest tracks featuring Floyd samples

The most sampled Floyd songs, and some of the best, worst and just plain odd tracks they spawned, featuring The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Metalheadz and, um, Milli Vanilli...

MusicRadar

Roger Waters on his dramatic Dark Side Of The Moon Redux: "It's been part of our lives for 50 years and yet we are still not yet breathing in the air"

"The concept has stood the test of time"

Louder

“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

Zenger

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

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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 will release Dark Side Of The Moon Redux on October 6

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

MusicRadar

Roger Waters reveals his first 'Redux' recording of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon with Money

"It's not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable"

Louder

Roger Waters said he “couldn’t care less” about Van Halen, forgetting that he once appeared on a song with Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen played guitar on a Roger Waters song back in 1990

The Conversation

Unpacking the controversy behind Roger Waters' latest tour

“I will not be cancelled,” roared the former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters at a recent concert in Birmingham, part of a European tour mired in controversy. There have been police investigations in Berlin, demonstrations in Britain and accusations of fostering hatred against Jews, but Waters has remained defiant.

Louder

“There has always been friction between me and Roger… I think, ‘Why do you have to say these things?’” Richard Wright’s personality clash with Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters

Keyboardist's feud went as far back as refusing to give band leader a cigarette in their early days

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