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Pink Floyd- Animals- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
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.
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
"YOU try following up 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Go on, just try it!" playfully admonishes Pink Floyd guitarist/ singer David Gilmour. "We've been trying to do it ever since!", laughs drummer Nick Mason. Gilmour and Mason are my guests, Roger Waters makes a cameo, and we include archive comments from the late keyboard player Richard Wright to round out the definitive classic rock interview regarding Wish You Were Here on its forty-fifth anniversary.
Pink Floyd- The Wall pt2- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
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...
Pink Floyd- The Wall pt1- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
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 Rick Wright 3-94
The late original Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright was born July 28th.
Rock’s Picasso, Storm Thorgerson, Goes to the Great Gig in the Sky
We just received word that Storm Thorgerson, the most prolific, most influential rock graphic artist ever, has passed away at age 69. Most widely known for his work with the Aubrey Powell and the Hipgnosis team in England for the long series…