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Syd Barrett’s iconic Madcap floorboards to go on show on South Coast this July
By Jerry Ewing published
The Piper venue near Hastings will feature a week-long programme of gigs and talks in July to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Syd Barrett's passing

When Roger Waters was asked to take on the mantle of Pink Floyd, and how it rejuvenated him
By Prog published
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

Roger Waters releases charity version of Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb with new lyrics
By Fraser Lewry published
The new version of Comfortably Numb finds Roger Waters singing alongside acclaimed Palestinian singer Mona Miari

Watch Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant reveal how he deals with bootleggers
By Fraser Lewry published
The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...
By Jerry Ewing published
A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother
By Fraser Lewry published
To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

How a robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history
By Paul Brannigan published
"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

They played alongside Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Blind Faith and Keith Chegwin. Then they were gone
By Malcolm Dome published
Rumours of alchemy, magick, war heroism and Van Gogh’s ear surrounded the “bonkers, eclectic and free-thinking” group earlier known as The Giant Sun Trolley, National-Balkan Ensemble and Hydrogen Jukebox

“I saw Frank Zappa sit in with Pink Floyd. He was terrible”: Swans’ Michael Gira
By Dom Lawson published
The lifelong experimental rocker believes only the first three Mothers Of Invention albums are worth listening to, because after that Zappa succumbed to “unfortunate prog tendencies”
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