The electricity in the room was palpable that crisp November night 1999 in Manhattan when David Bowie took the stage of the Kit Kat Klub and opened his show ( historic in that it was among the first ever live-streamed on the internet by a major Artist ) with this stunning rendition of "Life on Mars?".

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?"

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".