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“It’s boring. It’s over. He left our pop group when I was in my 30s.” David Gilmour says he'll talk about his fall-out with Roger Waters “one day”, admits he doesn't know his old friend's post-Pink Floyd work

David Gilmour on Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Pink Floyd

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Nick Cave calls out Roger Waters for ‘deeply damaging’ attitude to Israel boycott: ‘It’s embarrassing’

Australian musician spoke about his view on cultural boycotts in a new interview, where he also explained how he developed an ‘abiding love’ of the country as a teenager

The Independent UK

Nick Cave: I See the World as 'Systemically Beautiful'

Legendary musician and writer Nick Cave discusses his forthcoming album Wild God, Roger Waters and the BDS movement, and the role of freedom in seeking transcendence.

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Oasis: expert explains the formula for a successful band reunion – and why some crash and burn

The worst-kept secret in the music world is out: Oasis are back. And the only real surprise is that it’s taken so long for it to happen. Since there have been bands, bands have been breaking up. And since bands have been breaking up, bands have been reforming.

The Conversation

The biggest rock tour of all time has officially been confirmed - and it's Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres world tour

According to new data, Coldplay's latest tour has officially surpassed the likes of U2, The Rolling Stones and Elton John

Louder

"The thing to do would be to have an AI situation where David and Roger become friends again": Nick Mason's hope for the future of Pink Floyd

Nick Mason says artificial intelligence might be Pink Floyd's only hope of reconcilation

Louder

Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned

Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July

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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

Guitar World

“Syd was always experimenting. He had a very open sort of mind, to an almost dangerous degree”: the truth behind the myth of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original singer and psychedelic icon

Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett died on July 7, 2006. This is the story of the rise and decline of a psychedelic icon

Louder

“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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"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

Louder

"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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“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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"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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“It’s about keeping rich people rich and poor people poor… that’s the reason we’re in perpetual war”: When Roger Waters was asked to take on the mantle of Pink Floyd, it rejuvenated him

After the revelation of his Desert Trip festival experience, he returned with his Us + Them tour – eight years after he thought he’d delivered his swan song

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“Cool with a capital C”: Eric Clapton’s Marshall JCM800 that rocked 1.5 billion people at Live Aid is up for sale

So you need an amp to play guitar in a stadium for a watching TV audience of over a billion people? Well, something has just come in... All you need is a cobbled together Strat

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"When thousands have been killed and millions have fled their homes, moaning about the absence of a band member who left 37 years ago is churlish at best." How Pink Floyd surprised the rock world with Ukraine charity single Hey Hey Rise Up

The inside story of Pink Floyd's first new original music since 1994’s The Division Bell in aid of Ukraine

MusicRadar

"The fingers aren't very fast but I think I am instantly recognisable": David Gilmour classic guitar interview

Gilmour on the brief Pink Floyd reunion, On An Island and the art of the live guitar solo in this 2006 interview

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“Such a spectacle: 80,000 fans, eight-way spatial audio”: Did Roger Waters top Pink Floyd at Desert Trip in 2016? His guitarist Jonathan Wilson thinks so (and he wasn’t in the band at the time)

While not living his “Canyon life,” American musician and producer’s prog world includes Rush, Frank Zappa, Roy Harper, Robert Wyatt and others

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“It ended up very miserable. Even Roger Waters says what a miserable period it was – and he was the one who made it entirely miserable”: How Pink Floyd made The Final Cut and learned to hate each other

Set against the backdrop of the Falklands Conflict, the band’s last album with Waters came together while their break-up was on the horizon

Louder

A rebuilt Wall, Madonna's producer and an American academic: How Roger Waters saved himself

At the start of the 90s, Roger Waters was up against it. An epic concert of The Wall in Berlin was the first brick in rebuilding his career, followed by his third solo album, Amused To Death

Guitar World

“Musically, Eric was a very generous guy. I loved working with him because he encouraged me to play”: How Eric Clapton used Roger Waters, George Harrison, and Stevie Ray Vaughan as foils to survive the ‘80s – the decade he was not prepared for

This was the decade that saw Slowhand board a train with Another Ticket and disembark as a fully-fledged Journeyman. Here, Albert Lee, Phil Palmer, and more recall a turbulent time in Clapton's career

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“I’ve been thinking of taking drum lessons… What I won’t do is put together a new band”: What Nick Mason said before he put together a new band

With Pink Floyd recently wound down, their drummer considered his future – and at the time it didn’t include his Saucerful of Secrets project

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