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?
There is many a book that has been cooked up over a liquid lunch, but rarely has one been so…
The legacy of Sgt. Pepper that’s really worth celebrating is toytown pop – not prog rock
Pop’s counterfactuals tend to be built on questioning mortality: what if Jimi Hendrix had lived? Or Buddy Holly? Rarely does…
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
How many listeners, I wonder, actually tuned in to Darkside as it went out on air on Radio 2, after…
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