Pink Floyd secure a seventh Official Number 1 album with Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII this week. The groundbreaking 1972 film, directed by Adrian Maben at Floyd’s Pompeii Roman ...

On the flip side, Wish You Were Here is also Pink Floyd’s critique of the music industry. From “Shine On”, the album transitions to “Welcome To The Machine”. This song remains poignant ...

There are graceful tracking shots of the backs of the amplifiers (“Pink Floyd. London”), which strongly suggest that in the mathematics of the era, gear quantity equalled serious music.

As a concept, it was getting stale. Filmmaker Adrian Maben had been interested in combining art with Pink Floyd’s music. He initially pitched a film of the band’s music over montages of ...

Legendary concert film "Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII" plays April 24-29 in Bay Area cinemas (courtesy Sony Music). Plain and simple, the film is still a stunning achievement, capturing Pink ...

The orchestra will team with the electric instrumentation, vocals, lights and lasers of Windborne Productions to rekindle the music Pink Floyd filled ... said quietly. “Nobody will die.” ...

Luckily, nobody got hurt ... and written books about music since Rush ended. And for some people, that final gig can provide a spur. After playing Live 8 with Pink Floyd, and then helping ...

When Roger Waters quit Pink Floyd in 1983, however, something changed – and solo music which had previously been a pleasing distraction assumed a far more competitive edge. For Waters ...

“Nobody Home” boils it all down to one human’s sad plight, and as such, it makes for one of the most moving songs, not just on the album but also in Pink Floyd’s wonderful catalog.

It’s clear that Sony Music only sees Pink Floyd as a brand that’s going to run and run. Daniel Griffiths is a veteran journalist who has worked on some of the biggest entertainment, tech and home ...

BMG, a German-based music publishing company, also parted ways with Waters due to his political comments. Waters was scheduled to release a newly recorded version of Pink Floyd’s epochal 1973 ...

Pink Floyd will be $400 million richer now that the band has agreed to sell their recorded music and name-and-likeness rights to Sony Music. The British band comprised of members Roger Waters ...