After years of in-fighting and near-agreements, Pink Floyd have finally reached a deal to sell the rights to their recorded music catalog to Sony Music, according to the Financial Times. The deal is reported to be worth around $400 million and also includes the rights to the band’s name and …
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David Gilmour kicked off his Luck and Strange world tour Friday night at Circo Massimo in Rome, Italy. The set featured six songs from the new album, multiple guest appearances by Gilmour’s daughter Romany, three tunes from 2015’s Rattle That Lock, and 12 Pink Floyd classics. Prior to the tour, …
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David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 —as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in …
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Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine. They communicate primarily through lawyers and extremely caustic Tweets. But they finally found something they could agree on when Ice-T approached them this …
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The most intriguing song on Luck and Strange, David Gilmour‘s first solo album in nearly a decade, is a dark-mirror reflection of his own artistry: a rendition of the Montgolfier Brothers’ sardonic 1999 dream-pop song “Between Two Points,” sung by his daughter, Romany. The original song was a slow-building echo …
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News of the Oasis reunion has sent shockwaves throughout the music world, especially since Noel Gallagher has spent the past 15 years swearing such a thing would never happen. But should anyone really be all that surprised? Liam and Noel Gallagher may not like each other very much, but they …
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I n January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this …
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David Gilmour announced the first dates of his Luck and Strange tour last week, but he told Uncut that it’s going to be a very different tour from his previous ones because of an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies.” He went on to explain that he …
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David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit …
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Music rights company BMGis preparing to split entirely from Roger Waters following controversial comments he made onIsrael, Ukraine, and the United States,Variety reports. According to the publication, the Pink Floyd co-founder and German-based company signed a publishing agreement in 2016 and had plans to release a re-recorded version of the …
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