Today in Pink Floyd History: May 20

May 20, 1988.
Pink Floyd plays at Camp Randall Stadium during "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour.

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May. 20th, 1988 08:00 pm Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. I believe I rented a car for the trip, since my car wasn't in very good shape. I went by myself. Seems like my seat was on the left side, towards the back. Section T, row 70, seat 20. I don't think I missed anything, even at that distance.
The epitome of a stadium spectacle. Exploding pigs, enormous articulated mirror ball, plane flying from the back of the stadium and crashing at the front, great sound...


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David Cameron Reveals Pink Floyd as His Favourite

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David Cameron has revealed his favourite album of all time is Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of the Moon'.


In a message posted on Facebook, the prime minister announced his preference for the cult 70's album as part of a celebration of Great British Music.
His choice is somewhat fitting.
With the coalition fending off attacks that it is "out of touch", Cameron may want to listen to "Us and Them" again.
He'll also hope to avoid being "On the Run" from Ed Miliband again over his links to Rupert Murdoch.
Meanwhile, Cameron should be careful not to take too literally the song "Money".After Nadine Dorries' stinging outburst about him being a "arrogant posh boy",the PM surely wants to dispel the notion he is part of "the hi-fidelity first class travelling set".
Finally, given backbench criticism over the LibDems' influence, Cameron will want to avoid making his coalition "Any Colour You Like".
He can help the coalition survive as long as he tells backbenchers - "Speak To Me"

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Watch Roger Waters on "60 Minutes" Sunday Night, May 20


Roger Waters' story behind "The Wall"

(CBS News) Roger Waters is playing, singing and most of all, building "The Wall." At three stories tall and 140-yards across, the world's largest movie screen reflects high-definition images from 42 projectors all synchronized to the music. Waters, the creative force behind the legendary rock band Pink Floyd, will appear - along with his enormous wall and the story behind it- in a 60 Minutes report by Steve Kroft to be broadcast Sunday, May 20 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
It took three years for Waters and his tech team to design the animation on the wall that complements his music at sold-out stadiums all over the world. Waters says of his iconic double album, "I think it strikes some chords that may be just beneath surface in most of us. What it's about, is the walls that exist between human beings, whether... on a family level or on a global level. And I think that resonates with people."
"The Wall" and the work that goes into producing the show is motivation for Waters, continually energizing a 68 year old artist and musician who left the band he founded in 1985. "The emotional payback is enormous. The truth of the matter is that the work is the reward," says Waters. "I mean, the shows are great. Don't get me wrong. I love the shows...But I love...the nature of putting the thing together, you know. I like not just the nuts and bolts, but I like the process of trying to work out how to make it better all the time."
60 Minutes cameras were there for the opening night of nine sold out shows in Buenos Aires - breaking the attendance record previously held by the Rolling Stones. Waters and "The Wall" are now touring in North America through July 2012.
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THE LUNATIC

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Brain Damage 


(Waters) 3:50 

The lunatic is on the grass. 
The lunatic is on the grass. 
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs. 
Got to keep the loonies on the path. 

The lunatic is in the hall. 
The lunatics are in my hall. 
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor 
And every day the paper boy brings more. 

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon 
And if there is no room upon the hill 
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

The lunatic is in my head. 
The lunatic is in my head 
You raise the blade, you make the change 
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane. 
You lock the door 
And throw away the key 
There's someone in my head but it's not me. 

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear 
You shout and no one seems to hear. 
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

"I can't think of anything to say except... 
I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!


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NYPOST: Roger Waters of Pink Floyd to Marry

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Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters will tie the knot with longtime fiancée Laurie Durning. The Floyd founder, for whom this will be a fourth marriage, and the pretty blonde, a filmmaker, will wed before Waters hits the road early next year for his tour. After a seven-year engagement, Durning told us over lunch at Amaranth the other day, “It just seems like a good time to do it before the tour.” The couple is shopping for a new engagement ring to replace one Durning lost in London after Waters popped the question. But don’t expect a Paul McCartney-style extravaganza: Durning says she’ll only have close friends at a “private and low-key” ceremony.
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Today in Pink Floyd History - Oct 15

In 1966, the psychedelic rock group "Pink Floyd" was introduced to a large audience for the first time when they shared the bill with "The Soft Machine" at a launching party for the London underground newspaper, "International Times." 


They had not yet made their first record. That would come in January, 1967 with "Arnold Layne," which made the British top 20 but wasn't heard much in North America. "Pink Floyd" would become one of the top rock bands in the world six years later with the release of the album "Dark Side of the Moon."


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The Pink Floyd Flood Begins


That sound you hear is a cash register opening.

Coins piling up.

Sales being tallied. It's what opens the classic Pink Floyd song Money and it's what is sure to accompany the rush of passionate Floyd fans emptying their bank accounts to purchase the first round of remastered reissues of all of the iconic band's catalogue and various box sets.


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As their contemporaries issued and reissued and rereissued their older material - adding a song here, a bonus there in an attempt to make this one that much more definitive and that one obsolete - it's something the band has resisted for a great deal of time. Even their "greatest hits" album Echoes was less an opportunity to cash in on their most recognizable songs than it was about making a whole new artistic statement.

But now, the time has come, the dam has been opened and the flood of Floyd has begun.

Today, under the banner Why Pink Floyd. . .?, their longtime label EMI starts the roll out with the release of the remastered versions - CDs, LPs and digital - of their 14 studio albums, from the psych Syd Barrett-led early days of The Piper At the Gates of Dawn through their '70s heyday marked by milestone recordings such as The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, and then to their somewhat less artistically successful post-Roger Waters era.

It's the perfect opportunity for fans new and old to pick and choose and avoid the duds - the soundtrack for the 1969 film and the aforementioned David Gilmour minus Waters albums for a start - while improving on the listening experience greatly. As mindblowing as they can be in their original form, remastered they are stunning, with everything polished up to maximum headphone capacity by longtime collaborator James Guthrie. It shows why, at their best, Pink Floyd were brilliant mental expressionists, painting sonic canvasses with traditional melody and aural exploration. For Floyd, improving the quality of the sound and form only makes its impact that much greater.

Of course, for those who want the complete historical document of the band and its career or those completists who want it all again but cleaned up, there's the Discovery box set, which collects all of those albums - the good and the not-so - in one complete set.

The sound is there as well, as are the minimum liner notes - lyrics, credits - in, for this purpose, gatefold CD cases. What makes it all the more enticing for fans, though, is the 60-page booklet that accompanies it, featuring those equally iconic images that have illustrated their career, as collected by Floyd friend and designer Storm Thorgerson.

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