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Pink Floyd
/ flɔid /
noun
- BarrettSyd19462006M WatersRoger1944M WrightRick19452008M MasonNick1945M GilmourDave1944M British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
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In Los Angeles for concerts at Intuit Dome and the Hollywood Bowl, the 78-year-old Pink Floyd veteran sits down for a wide-ranging interview.
A strutting psych-blues jam with visions of “great cities that toppled and drowned,” it’s a highlight from the Pink Floyd veteran’s strong new solo album, “Luck and Strange” — and one of the latter-day cuts his fans will politely nod their heads to a few hours from now between beloved oldies such as “Wish You Were Here” and “Comfortably Numb.”
At 78, Gilmour has been at this long enough to know what his audience wants, which is as much of Pink Floyd’s ’70s-era songbook as he’s willing to play.
The bookings are an indication of Gilmour’s enduring popularity, even as his relationship with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has hit an all-time low.
For a while there, relations between the ex-bandmates seemed at risk of scotching a lucrative deal to sell Pink Floyd’s catalog — a deal that eventually went through this year when the band handed over the rights to its recorded work to Sony Music for a reported $400 million.
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