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Roger Waters admitted to me that, in 1980, Pink Floyd had been guaranteed one million dollars per night to perform “The Wall” on a stadium tour. “And I refused to do it outdoors,” Waters tells me in this classic rock interview. “But how can you do a show, that’s about the alienation you feel about doing stadium shows, in a stadium?”
Pink Floyd’s monumental opus The Wall…the numbers that it has generated are starting to rival the Great Wall of China: #87 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 500 Albums of All Time; worldwide sales of an estimated 30,000,000…
This song performance first appeared in the ” Later Years” box set, and now the entire Pink Floyd Knebworth 1990 performance is available too.. . Here is Pink Floyd soldiering through defiantly with a particularly fiery lead guitar solo by David Gilmour on “Comfortably Numb”.
Interviews with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason about “The Endless River” for the fascinating back story of a “final ” musical statement, 1994’s “The Division Bell”, which was never intended to be the superstar progressive rock band’s last word but which nevertheless became that when Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright died in 2008.
March 1994’s “The Division Bell” by Pink Floyd became the last offering of new music from the remaining triumvirate of singer/guitarist/composer David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboard player Richard Wright. “The Division Bell” sold over three million copies just in the Nineties thirty years ago. Gilmour and Mason join me In the Studio on the 30th anniversary.
When Pink Floyd performed “The Dogs of War” for the first time on the “Momentary Lapse of Reason” tour, the concert film that accompanied their live performance really was creepy, menacing, and totally memorable…here with Pink Floyd’s in-concert performance in Atlanta in 1987.
To illustrate how seriously many of the post-British Invasion bands were approaching the rock idiom by early 1973, you need look no further than Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” to see how this progressive rock movement had matured, with spectacular results both artistically and commercially, confirmed in this fiftieth anniversary classic rock interview by my guests, musical lunar explorers David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Nick Mason.
By the time a soggy Pink Floyd wrapped up 1990’s Knebworth Festival, we listened to Pink Floyd performing “Money” live on the London radio, including a spirited extended sax solo by leggy Candy Dulfer.
In the first half of the Eighties, Pink Floyd was M.I.A. for five long years, conspicuous in their absence for instance at the largest one day gathering of rock royalty, Live Aid, in July 1985. It was not until the end of that year that Roger Waters’ official departure from Pink Floyd was revealed to the other band members, and this bowling ball revelation left the group with the musical equivalent of the dreaded 7-10 split. David Gilmour spills the beans & spills his guts, & drummer Nick Mason analyzes the net effect, here In the Studio for “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”
How did Pink Floyd evolve from the sublime introspection of “Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973 to the madness and despair of “The Wall” six years later? David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters explore the dark, ominous, yet vitally important transitional musical missing link, January 1977’s “Animals” here in my classic rock interview, an album that was highly anticipated.