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Yahoo
16-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Take the World's Hardest Pink Floyd Quiz
It has been more than 30 years since Pink Floyd existed as an active touring band. Decades of bitter infighting, and especially bad relations between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, make it impossible to imagine any sort of reunion tour, one-off gig, or even a private reconciliation in the future. But nonetheless, the band has maintained an incredibly loyal following. Pink Floyd tribute acts like Brit Floyd draw enormous crowds, drummer Nick Mason keeps the early catalog alive in his band Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, and archival projects like the new IMAX release of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii become major events. But not all Pink Floyd fanatics are created equal. To see where you fall on the spectrum, take our quiz. Zero to 30% correct: To be clear, you're not the record executive in 'Have a Cigar' who asks the band, 'By the way, which one's Pink?' But you still need to do a little homework. For starters, we recommend Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. It goes through the history of the band in exhaustive detail, and is packed with incredible photos. You should also simply spend more time with the catalog. The pre-Dark Side of the Moon albums are all worth exploring. We especially love Meddle. More from Rolling Stone Take the World's Hardest U2 Quiz Take the World's Hardest Taylor Swift Quiz Pink Floyd's Nick Mason on the Legacy and Oddity of 'Live at Pompeii' 31 to 60% correct: Nice job. Your knowledge of Pink Floyd extends way beyond the hits assembled on A Collection of Great Dance Songs, and the handful of others you hear on classic-rock radio. To dig deeper, check out Mike Cormack's book Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd, and Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, by Jean-Michel Guesdon Philippe Margotin. Once you absorb all of that, you'll be much closer to master-fan status. 61 to 100% correct: Incredible work. Did you see Floyd at the UFO Club in 1966? Did you sneak into the ruins of the Amphitheatre of Pompeii of 1971 to witness their famous show there in person? Did Roger Waters actually spit on your face at the final stop of the Animals tour in 1977? Even if it's a no to all of these questions, you still are quite the Pink Floyd expert. Congrats. Looking for more Rolling Stone ? Try these: The World's Hardest Taylor Swift QuizThe World's Hardest The Office QuizThe World's Hardest Saturday Night Live QuizThe World's Hardest Billy Joel QuizThe World's Hardest Bob Dylan Quiz The World's Hardest Bruce Springsteen QuizThe World's Hardest U2 Quiz Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Times
01-05-2025
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- Times
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii review — a five-star, captivating new mix
★★★★★It is the ultimate progressive story: a band so serious, so dedicated to their craft and the right to take off on ten-minute Farfisa organ solos should the mood take them, that in 1971 they performed a concert in front of nobody. And befitting their status as the moody gods of classically inspired rock, they did it amid the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii. 'At last the rock wizards are unleashed on film,' went the original poster line for the 1972 film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, and there did indeed appear to be some sort of wizardry at work. You can hear it throughout this first official live album, which comes via a crisp new mix from modern
Deccan Herald
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Deccan Herald
Restored version of Pink Floyd's Pompeii concert film to release in Indian theatres
The film, which was originally titled Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, will be showcased in theatres on April 26 and 27.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
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David Gilmour and Roger Waters hit back at criticism of the band's over-reliance on gear and synths when crafting The Dark Side of The Moon in unearthed clip
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII – the newly restored version of the 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben – a clip of the band recording what would become The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios has been unearthed from the depths of the Floyd archives. Perhaps most interesting are the band's thoughts on the criticisms they were receiving at the time – that they depended too much on their gear and new technologies. In the clip, David Gilmour can be seen saying, 'I don't think equipment could take over. We do rely on it a lot. I mean, we couldn't do what we do as we do it without it. We could still do a good, entertaining, musical show, I suppose, without it. But all those things are down to how you control them and whether you're controlling them, not the other way around.' Roger Waters, on the other hand, ponders, 'It's a danger that we could become slaves of all our equipment, and in the past, we have been.' However, he clarifies that it's just a question of using the tools 'that are available, when they're available.' 'More and more now, there's all kinds of electronic goodies which are available [for] people like us to use.' And in true Waters fashion, he doubles down on his argument, asserting, 'It's like saying, 'Give a man a Les Paul guitar, and he becomes Eric Clapton,' and it's not true. 'And give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer, and he doesn't become whoever.' He doesn't become us.' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was filmed in October 1971 and captures a band finally finding their footing after years of experimentation in the wake of the departure of their founder, Syd Barrett. The movie has now been meticulously hand-restored, frame by frame, after being discovered in five dubiously labeled cans in the band's own archive. Under its updated title, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, it is set to be released in cinemas worldwide starting April 24. David Gilmour later returned to the Amphitheatre of Pompeii in 2016, where, for two nights only, he performed for just 3,000 lucky concertgoers – with a Live at Pompeii album and concert film released in 2017.
The Guardian
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Pink Floyd to rerelease restored 1972 Pompeii concert film in Imax
One of the most distinctive concert films in rock history, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, is to be rereleased in cinemas – including in Imax format – and have its first soundtrack release. Filmed in 1971 and released the following year, the film (previously titled Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii) captures the band shortly before The Dark Side of the Moon ushered in their most commercially successful phase. It will be in cinemas worldwide on 24 April. Forgoing the usual concert film format, director Adrian Maben decided to have the group perform without an audience, in the eerily deserted Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii: the first band to play there. They play tracks from their 1971 album Meddle, and earlier songs such as A Saucerful of Secrets and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. As well as suitably trippy shots of the city's classical antiquity and the band walking through its landscape, the film also features footage of them working on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road studios, including the songs On the Run, Us and Them and Brain Damage. There are also interviews with the band. The film has now been restored to 4K quality from the original negatives which were found in Pink Floyd's archives. 'Since 1994, I have searched for the elusive film rushes of Pink Floyd at Pompeii,' said Lana Topham, the band's director of restoration. 'So the recent discovery of the 1972 original 35mm cut negative was a very special moment.' The film's sound has also been overhauled, in a new mix by chart-topping prog rock star Steven Wilson. Wilson said it was 'an honour', adding: 'Ever since my dad brainwashed me as a kid by playing The Dark Side of the Moon on repeat, Pink Floyd have been my favourite band. They are my Beatles, deeply ingrained in my musical DNA. I first saw Pompeii from a grainy print at a local cinema. It made an incredible impression on me with its untethered and exploratory rock music made by four musicians who seemed to epitomise the notion of intellectual cool.' The film has previously been reissued on DVD but, although much bootlegged, the soundtrack was not officially released until it was made a part of the 27-disc box set The Early Years in 2016. Entitled Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, and boasting Wilson's new mix, the soundtrack will be reissued on 2 May on CD, vinyl and streaming, including in the Dolby Atmos spatial audio format. A Blu-Ray and DVD of the film will be released the same day. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour returned to Pompeii to perform a concert in 2016, this time with a crowd. The band's final album was The Endless River in 2014, though in 2022 Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason released a new song under the Pink Floyd name called Hey, Hey, Rise Up. It featured Ukrainian vocalist Andriy Khlyvnyuk and was released in support of Ukraine following Russia's invasion that year. A reunion of the band's surviving members, Gilmour, Mason and Roger Waters, is highly unlikely, with Gilmour having criticised his former bandmate in the press in recent years. Asked by a Guardian reader last year whether he would ever perform with Waters again, he said: 'Absolutely not. I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro [president of Venezuela]. Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK.' Also in 2024, the band sold off the rights to their catalogue recordings, name and likeness in a deal with Sony believed to be worth $400m, while retaining the rights to their songwriting.
