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The Abbey Road Studios recording console used on 'Dark Side of the Moon' has sold at auction for $1.8 million.

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March 28 - Pink Floyd’s 14th studio album The Division Bell was released on this day in 1994. The album’s title was suggested by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams in exchange for David Gilmour making a donation to Adams’ favorite charity. The head statues depicted on the album cover are now on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

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March 27 - 20 years after the limited engagement tour of The Wall concept album, Pink Floyd released Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 on this day in 2000.

The cover depicts the Floyd masks that were worn by the "surrogate band" in the concert's opening number. Snowy White (1980 tour) or Andy Roberts (1981 tour) wore the David Gilmour mask, Andy Bown wore the Roger Waters mask, Willie Wilson wore the Nick Mason mask, and Peter Wood wore the Richard Wright mask.

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March 21 - Pink Floyd’s 12th studio album The Final Cut was released on this day in 1983. At this point in the band’s timeline, Richard Wright was nowhere to be heard (having been forced out of the band during The Wall sessions), and Roger Waters and David Gilmour were barely speaking to each other. Extensive orchestration by Michael Kamen was used instead of Wright’s keyboards. David Gilmour’s contribution was throttled down to one vocal and a few guitar solos in which one can practically hear his frustration. Nick Mason was supplemented by Ray Cooper and even replaced entirely by Andy Newmark on the closing track. And for the second album in a row, longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson had been passed over for the cover art design, this time Roger Waters did it himself with some help from his brother in law. The record is essentially a Roger Waters solo album, and to drive the point home, the credits on the sleeve say “by Rogers Waters, performed by Pink Floyd”. For Roger Waters, it truly was the final cut, his final work as a member of Pink Floyd. He quit the band in 1985 because he believed that Pink Floyd was spent as a creative force and because he no longer wanted to be obligated to pay a ¼ share of Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke’s salary after having hired his own manager for his solo work.

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As Dame Vera Lynn turns 100, BBC News looks back at the life of the Forces' Sweetheart.

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

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Nick Mason, 73, smashed his £3million McLaren F1 GTR into a barrier at the famous Sussex racecourse after coming off the track, but escaped unharmed after the collision.

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March 6 - Happy birthday to David Gilmour, born on this day in 1946.

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EMI TG12345 MK IV. The console that Pink Floyd used to record ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ in 1972 at Abbey Road Studios. Photo credit Mike Ross. Only two of these custom EMI TG12345 MK IV consoles were ever made and according to former Abbey Road engineer Brian Gibson—long considered to be one of the foremost authorities in the world on such things—this particular console is the “greatest to ever be constructed.” This particular EMI TG12345 MK IV was in use for over a decade in Studio 2 at the world-renowned Abbey Road Studio. The mythical studio that has stood on 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, City of Westminster, London, England since 1931 has recorded notable bands from The Beatles to The Buzzcocks during its long history. When it comes to the history of this console, it is as rich as the studio it occupied during its heyday. Though it was used by other prestigious artists such as Paul McCartney and Wings, George Harrison, Kate Bush and later on by The Cure—as the title of this post indicates—the most noteworthy piece of musical history created with the help of this console was Pink Floyd’s 1973 mind-bender...

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Renowned World War II singer Vera Lynn will celebrate her next birthday by becoming the first singer in history to release a new album at age 100, her record label said on Thursday. "It's truly humbling that people still enjoy these songs from so many years ago, reliving the emotions of that

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day?

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January 31 - Happy birthday to Phil Manzanera, guitarist of Roxy Music, born on this day in 1951. In addition to Roxy Music and his solo work, he has made countless collaborations as a songwriter, musician, and producer. Pink Floyd fans know him for co-writing “One Slip” on A Momentary Lapse of Reason, co-producing The Endless River and David Gilmour’s On an Island & Rattle That Lock albums, and touring for On an Island as rhythm guitarist.

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January 27 - Happy birthday to Nick Mason. The Pink Floyd drummer and vintage racecar driver was born on this day in 1944.

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January 21 - Pink Floyd’s tenth studio album Animals was released on this day in 1977.

Two of the album’s three epic-length songs, “Dogs” and “Sheep”, were originally written and performed live (along with the also-epic “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”) during Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon tours in 1974, but unlike “Shine On” they were shelved instead of included on the next album Wish You Were Here. “Dogs” was originally titled “You Gotta Be Crazy”, and “Sheep” was originally titled “Raving and Drooling”, both undergoing some adjustments to fit the Animal Farm inspired theme of the album.

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January 6 - Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, was born on this day in 1946.

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January 3 - Syd Barrett’s first solo album The Madcap Laughs was released on this day in 1970.

Recording of the album began immediately after Barrett’s official departure from Pink Floyd in 1968, and quickly ran into trouble for all the same reasons for his departure. It took several attempts over the course of a year by different producers before David Gilmour and Roger Waters ultimately stepped in to help their friend record the album.

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January 3 - Happy birthday to Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, born on this day in 1962. His first work with Pink Floyd was on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, followed by The Division Bell album and tour as well as The Endless River. Pratt also toured both On an Island and Rattle That Lock with David Gilmour.

In 1996, Guy Pratt joined the Pink Floyd family in a more literal sense when he married Richard Wright’s daughter Gala. As a wedding gift, David Gilmour gave Pratt a 1960 sunburst Fender Jazz bass guitar (once belonging to Gilmour’s old Joker’s Wild bandmate Rick Wills) that was in Gilmour’s collection and Pratt had repeatedly begged Gilmour to sell to him.

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December 8 - A Nice Pair, a compilation of Pink Floyd’s first two albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets, was released in the United States on December 8, 1973. The compilation was intended to cash in on the success of The Dark Side of the Moon which had been released earlier that year.

The front and back cover art are a series of photos by Hipgnosis, many of which are visual puns such as “a fork in the road”, “a fine kettle of fish”, and “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”.

The center photo on the front cover is the Pink Floyd Football Club. It was a replacement for a photo of boxer Floyd Patterson colored pink, which was not used because he wanted five grand for it. The bottom center photo on the back cover are Hipgnosis’ Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell discussing the album cover and rejecting an all-pink cover. You can see their other work on the wall including Dark Side. The eyeglasses in the lower left corner belong to the photographer, which explains why the photo is out of focus.

Given that its purpose was to re-release the first two Floyd albums, when those albums became available on CD, A Nice Pair went out of print.

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November 30 - Pink Floyd released The Wall in the UK on this day in 1979.

The song “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” was released as a single a week prior to the album release. It was Pink Floyd’s first single since “Point Me at the Sky”, which had failed to chart in 1968 and as a result the band decided to just focus on albums and not bother with singles. However, because Pink Floyd owed taxes to England for the fortune they had made from Dark Side of the Moon (indeed the band had to spend a year out of England so they recorded The Wall in France, New York, and Los Angeles), the band decided they needed a single, and not just any single but a hit single.

In 1979 that meant one thing: disco. That is why ABITW2 has a disco rhythm guitar sound and a four-on-the-floor drum beat that are (thankfully) not heard elsewhere on the album. The song was intentionally crafted in this style in order to become a hit single, and it worked. “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” reached #1 in at least seventeen countries and was in the top 5 in at least five more. Although it was too late in the year to make a big impact on 1979’s year-end charts, for 1980 it was the #2 song of the year in the U.S.

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