Pink Floyd
A Saturday-night variety show: Take That at the O2 reviewed
Being old is big business in live music nowadays, in a way it wasn’t even 25 years ago. When Take…
Battersea Power Station deserves its glossy makeover – but I’ll miss its crumbling glamour
Battersea Power Station once generated nearly a fifth of London’s power. It must have hummed and clanked almost as much…
Where is Pink Floyd in David Weigel’s history of Prog Rock?
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The legacy of Sgt. Pepper that’s really worth celebrating is toytown pop – not prog rock
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The album art that dazzled a generation
James Walton talks to Aubrey Powell, the man behind the album art for virtually every 1970s rock band you can think of
Tom Stoppard’s Pink Floyd play gives Radio 2 a dark side
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‘Don’t just sit there, Google something!’
‘I used to be fat and sad. Then I exercised.
Then I dieted. Then I became superfit.
Superfit and supersad.’
‘Turn left on to the heath. Then you have reached your destination.’
‘He’s playing with his HS2 train set.’
‘We’ve had the room
painted “privilege white”.’
‘The world is urging restraint, sir.’
‘The booster seat is for John Bercow.’
‘Turn me into a princess?
Haven’t I suffered enough?’
Left: Man stands aside
for woman Right: Man doesn’t stand
aside for woman
‘My wife wants to send me to Coventry.’