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Poem released in honour of Pink Floyd's seminal LP Wish You Were Here by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

The new poem pays tribute to the "creativity" of late frontman Syd Barrett.

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Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12

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Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12

The Guardian - UK

“I remember sitting down with Roger and saying, ‘Roger, this is insane!’”: The strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975

Only two tracks have ever been heard from what could have been Pink Floyd's most divisive record

MusicRadar

You’ve probably never heard of this band, but their new album is a devastating space-metal odyssey for fans of Pink Floyd, Tool and great music in general

Psychonaut are far from superstars in the metal scene, but World Maker deserves to change that

Metal Hammer

“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the chance of a Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters

The powerhouse Gilmour–Waters partnership is no more – and Floyd fans will most likely never experience it again

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‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

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“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour shuts door on idea of ever performing with Roger Waters again

Plus his wife Polly Samson reveals why she condemned Waters as “anti-Semitic” on X

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'There is no possible way': David Gilmour rules out Roger Waters reunion

David Gilmour says he will never perform with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters again, stating: "There is no possible way that I would do that."

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Pink Floyd star David Gilmour says ‘no possible way’ for Roger Waters reunion

Former bandmates are embroiled in one of music’s most acrimonious feuds

The Independent UK

“A peerless catalogue; a breathtaking, ancient setting; a definitive latterday performance by a band of all the talents”: David Gilmour’s Live At The Circus Maximus is a maxed-out experience

Pink Floyd mainstay and his colleagues are in imperious form on concert movie from his Luck And Strange tour

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“We don’t want to be just another modern death metal band. Taking ideas from David Gilmour and George Harrison is a big deal for us”: How Blood Incantation are opening the Stargate to take death metal to a higher cosmic plane

On album number four, Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are taking their “Morbid Angel meets Pink Floyd” concept to new creative heights

Guitar World

Roger Waters blasts ‘timid’ and ‘unpleasant’ Thom Yorke in latest row over Israel

Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has branded Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke as "timid" and "unpleasant" in the pair's long-running dispute about playing gigs in Israel.

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"Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim

Fields Of The Nephilim's second album blends mysticism and the occult, referencing Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft

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“I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?

Louder

Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever

After all, why reply with a short response when you can weave a long tale involving Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more instead?

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"I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock

It turns out that lengthy, multi-part instrumentals and concept albums aren't prog after all

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“I’m not thinking about the audience and what they want, to be honest”: Why David Gilmour never learned to play this iconic Pink Floyd guitar solo

Gilmour believes his audiences would prefer a “real and happening” solo instead of a carbon copy night-in, night-out

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"If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson

With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests

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“I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write

The guitarist’s wife and long-term creative partner helped him put a full-stop on The Endless River, before the couple brought his 2015 album Rattle That Lock to fruition

The Guardian - UK

Dad’s part in Pink Floyd’s free-form mayhem on Jugband Blues

Brief letters: Salvation Army ensemble | Giving way | Cornish conundrum | Nuclear fast-track fears | Rejects UK

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And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

Louder

"I'm hoping to go there and watch myself": David Gilmour hints at Pink Floyd avatar show at the Sphere in Las Vegas

David Gilmour made the remarks at the UK premiere of his concert film Live At Circus Maximus, Rome

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Why have Pink Floyd wrapped their album sleeves on streaming services in black?

Pink Floyd's ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, celebrates its 50th anniversary on September 12. Just saying...

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