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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

Louder

“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

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"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

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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

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“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

Guitar World

“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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How Syd Barrett cast a spell that lasted throughout Pink Floyd's career

Pink Floyd are synonymous with Roger Waters and David Gilmour, but Syd Barrett remains the lost genius at the heart of the band

Louder

Award-winning investigative journalist John Pilger dies aged 84

Campaigning journalist renowned for his coverage of the Thalidomide scandal dies

Evening Standard

“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

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Roger Waters pays tribute to "The Last DJ" Jim Ladd, takes potshot at his bosses at Sirius XM

Jim Ladd, the DJ inspiration for Tom Petty's The Last DJ and the voice of Roger Waters' Radio KAOS, has died at the age 75

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Highgate house where Pink Floyd was formed available to rent for £12,000pcm

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett all lived at the house on Stanhope Gardens in the sixties

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"The listener can hear distinct traces of what's to come in this dense magical melee": Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother (Special Edition)

One of Pink Floyd's least favourite Pink Floyd albums now comes with rare Japanese extras

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"It was pretty miserable": Roger Waters fired his son from his touring band, so now he's joined a Pink Floyd tribute group

Roger Waters' son Harry played for his father's touring band for 14 years before he was fired, now he plays for Pink Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd

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Roger Waters had a little black book with his poems in – and he turned them into a massive, multimedia masterpiece that ultimately destroyed Pink Floyd

How Roger Waters and Pink Floyd took some "unlistenable" demos and built The Wall

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“I met a gorgeous Steven Wilson fan. I then introduced her to my girlfriend… the story is told in my song Beautiful Night”: Franck Carducci’s life in prog

Leader of the Fantastic Squad on moonrise during a Roger Waters show, receiving a career kickstart at his favourite venue, and why Paul McCartney is his prog hero

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Yes grace the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Peter Gabriel, Fish, Edgar Broughton, Gong, Bruce Soord, Tiger Moth Tales, The Emerald Dawn, Southern Empire, Christina and loads more...

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‘He’s a control freak’: 12 bandmates who hate each other, from Oasis to Pink Floyd

Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

The Guardian - US

Susan Sarandon dropped by talent agency after remarks at pro-Palestine rally

UTA lets Oscar-winning actor go after she spoke at several pro-Palestine rallies

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"We have one rule: you can have body punches and choke-holds and throw bottles at each other, but we never crack each other in the face": What happens when bands fight

The 40 bitterest bust-ups in rock history: From fisticuffs to wars of words to litigation and beyond, rock'n'roll’s divorce courts are packed with ire and animosity:

The Independent UK

Report: Roger Waters denied hotel stays in Argentina and Uruguay over allegations of antisemitism

Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay have reportedly rejected reservations for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over accusations of antisemitism leveled at the British singer known for his pro-Palestinian views

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“The sounds of plucked elastic bands and scraping broomsticks are the last hurrah for the old Pink Floyd”: Household Objects, the lost album that nearly followed Dark Side

For over three decades, a two-minute clip of tuned wine glasses was the only sign of a project begun in 1980 and finally abandoned four years later

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