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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - Caught on Camera

“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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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"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

Louder

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...

Louder

“It doesn’t sound really wet… then suddenly you are in a huge chamber”: David Gilmour shares an essential tone tip for guitarists using a whammy bar with a delay pedal

The king of gourmet delay sounds shows us how vibrato works in cahoots with your repeats

MusicRadar

“Though every note has been learned and rehearsed and played, you need to think, ‘Oh, there’s something about the feel that had before that it’s gone forever’”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the Pink Floyd solo that accidentally got erased

The Pink Floyd guitarist reveals the track whose (one of many) solos got deleted amid the Animals recording sessions

Guitar World

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“Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If it had Pink Floyd on the cover, it would have sold millions”: BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty’s prog record collection

The pundit, who met John Wetton and Geoff Downes through their mutual love of the sport, recommends albums by Asia, Supertramp, Marillion and others

Louder

I Keep Seeing Amazing Videos Of The Wizard Of Oz At Sphere In Vegas, And Now We Need The Pink Floyd Version

Let’s bring back “Dark Side of the Rainbow!”

Cinemablend

“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange

Collaboration, family, mortality and that stridently emotive guitar work - it's all there on David Gilmour's sixth studio album Luck And Strange

Louder

“A kid came in, plugged into an amp and started. It was extraordinary. I went out the next day to find records by this character, 'Jimi Hendrix…'”: David Gilmour on the first time he saw Hendrix play – in the company of the Beatles and Rolling Stones

A broke, pre-Pink Floyd Gilmour rocked up to a free jam evening at a music club – and had his entire guitar world rocked

Guitar World

Jack Osbourne Tearfully Reveals the 3:45 a.m. Door Knock That Told Him Ozzy Had Passed

Jack Osbourne tearfully recounts the moment a family employee knocked at 03:45 to tell him his father Ozzy had died at 76; the funeral procession in Birmingham drew thousands, and the family continues to preserve the rock legend's legacy.

International Business Times UK

"It's so broad a concept that it's impossible to answer objectively": We asked who the 'big four' of classic rock were and you did not hold back

The results are in, and a Mount Rushmore of classic rock is ready to be carved

Louder

"I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."

David Gilmour fans might not have to wait too long for a follow-up to Luck and Strange

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“It was such a shame to leave A Secret Wish on its own. The band still had such great potential – it was unfinished business”: Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag couldn’t dump Propaganda and their prog roots in the past

Their 1985 contained tones of Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Supertramp. It took until 2022 for the singers and producer Stephen Lipson, as xPropaganda, to deliver The Heart Is Strange. But it was worth the wait

MusicRadar

“My father always thought you were a ... Thanks for proving him right": Which rock legend has been on the other end of a tongue-lashing from Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack?

After some insensitive comments about his old man

Evening Standard

'How pathetic': Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack blasts Pink Floyd star for 'vomiting out bulls***' about late dad

Roger Waters, 81, shared his thoughts on Ozzy, who died aged 76 in July, in a recent interview

International Business Times UK

Why Does Roger Waters Hate Ozzy Osbourne? Pink Floyd Legend's Brutal Black Sabbath Snub Ignites Rock Rivalry

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters dismissed the late Black Sabbath icon with unusually blunt remarks, saying he 'never did' care for Osbourne's music.

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What Did Roger Waters Say About Ozzy Osbourne? Jack Osbourne's Explosive Response Explained

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters ignited controversy after making disparaging remarks about Ozzy Osbourne on a podcast. Jack Osbourne delivered an explosive Instagram response, defending his father's legacy and fuelling a wider debate about respect, satire and rock history.

Metal Hammer

"How pathetic and out of touch you've become." Jack Osbourne issues scathing response to Roger Waters after comments about his father Ozzy

Jack Osbourne lets loose on Waters after the former Pink Floyd man disses Ozzy during an anti-media diatribe

The Independent UK

Jack Osbourne slams ‘pathetic’ Roger Waters for disparaging Ozzy remarks

Pink Floyd musician drew the ire of the Black Sabbath frontman’s son, after he made a series of dismissive comments about the late rocker

The Guardian - UK

‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?

Louder

“We weren’t looking for peaceful – we were looking for horrid. We gave people fits. Locked the doors and pointed strobes at the crowd, wocka-wocka-wocka”: From falling together to falling apart, Hawkwind’s early era was no hippie dream

Lemmy, Nik Turner and Dave Brock lived through a time of division through choice of drugs, mental health issues and artistic intentions, which still left a remarkable impact on the world of ‘out-there’ music

Louder

10 Reunions That Went Wrong

They don't all go as smooth and successfully as Oasis, as The Verve, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins and more will tell you...

MusicRadar

“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

As we approach Wish You Were Here's 50th anniversary, we analyse the sublimely strange structure of its ambitious title track

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