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Pink Floyd: nine of the iconic band's best songs, from Echoes to Learning to Fly

We rank the band’s best tracks

Evening Standard

“I've got a trove of stuff already, some of which I rather like.” With Pink Floyd “done”, David Gilmour hopes to start work on the follow-up to his hit solo album Luck and Strange in the new year

After the nine year wait for Luck and Strange, David Gilmour's sixth solo album might not be too far away:

Louder

“I took off my apron. My manager said, ‘You’ve got tables to serve,’ and I said, ‘I’m talking to Peter Gabriel!’” How actor Adrian Lukis was talked out of signing a music contract by his Genesis hero

After connecting with fellow public schoolboys, he went on to admire Pink Floyd’s intellectualism, appreciate Curved Air’s sexiness, and get lost in Jean-Luc Ponty while on acid

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"John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play

Written by co-founder Syd Barrett, See Emily Play gave the fledgling Pink Floyd their first UK Top 10 single

Louder

I just saw the fulldome presentation of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon – and was blown away

The bad news: your home cinema ain’t gonna cut it. The good news: there’s more to fulldome than Floyd.

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David Gilmour rehearses ‘Luck and Strange’ ahead of UK tour

Exclusive: Pink Floyd star recalls ‘freezing’ recording session with his late bandmate, Richard Wright

The Independent UK

“The four-note phrase is arguably the most recognisable motif of the entire Pink Floyd catalogue”: Seven powerful moments that help make Wish You Were Here so unique

…and two of them occur before a single note is heard of the band’s 1975 classic

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A Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters? An unequivocal ‘no’, says David Gilmour

Guitarist says he’s ‘never had so much fun’ working on an album as with his new solo record, ‘Luck and Strange’

The Independent UK

David Gilmour review, Luck and Strange: Graceful ruminations on love and mortality

Pink Floyd used to sing that ‘hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way’, but Gilmour sounds happier than that

The Independent UK

"Imbued with tropical, fado or flamenco vibes, as if recorded in a hammock on a private beach somewhere": Luck And Strange finds David Gilmour in relaxed, reflective form

David Gilmour’s fifth solo album muses on heavy concernsbut dreams of cool evenings on the Mediterranean

Louder

David Gilmour says it would be a "dream" to sell Pink Floyd's catalogue, not because of the financial gain, but to get out of the "arguments"

The guitarist notes how when it comes to making decisions within the band, it's often “three people saying yes, but one person saying no"

Louder

The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk review – Windrush children who were left behind

A young girl is bereft when her mother goes to England, in this vivid debut of family sacrifices and secrets

The Guardian - UK

“There’s going to be a feeling of loss but a huge sense of relief… I’ve had my time with them. I’m finding new friends now and they can move on”: When David Gilmour auctioned 123 of his guitars for charity

Just before he raised a record-breaking $21.5m, the veteran axe hero showed and played some of the historic instrument’s he’d decided to part with

Louder

“It’s hard to justify to friends who don’t get it that you make a living, but you’re not goddamn Led Zeppelin and not playing cover sets at the bar”: Between The Buried And Me just do what they do

Unable to battle the stigma of following their own path, they just got on with it; and, taking influence from Danny Elfman and Pink Floyd, went even more theatrical with 2015’s Coma Ecliptic

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“Designed for players who demand a rock solid instrument”: Harley Benton unveils the SC-Custom III, aggressively priced singlecut electrics with stainless steel frets as standard, and plenty of spec options

For under $400 you get stainless steel frets, and specs ranging from figured maple tops to active humbuckers, Floyd Rose vibratos and a vintage-inspired all black number with P-90s

Tom’s Hardware

This Raspberry Pi rover bot is named Floyd and is super sassy, thanks to Chat GPT

Larry's Workbench is using a Raspberry Pi to power his custom rover bot, which is voice-activated and very sassy, thanks to Chat GPT.

Louder

“We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight

Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

Louder

"Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single

The story behind the Pink Floyd song the band kept in their vaults for almost 50 years

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"I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist

Warning: Contains spoilers

Wallpaper

Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky takes the music of Pink Floyd up into the clouds

Gala Wright collaborates with Brainstorms to create an interactive installation that explores the emotional reaction to Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’

Louder

“Everyone’s story is different… All I can say is he was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s surprise visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio

Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

The Independent UK

Alabama double killer becomes first death-row inmate put to death in state since nitrogen execution

Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday

Louder

"When David Bowie walked into the room, it was like the messiah walked in." Drum legend Steve DiStanislao recalls the night that David Bowie performed a Syd Barrett classic with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Richard Wright

Steve DiStanislao looks back on playing alongside David Bowie, David Gilmour and Richard Wright for one very special evening

Louder

“The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition

Pioneers’ ‘punkest’ record gets the Atmos Blu-ray treatment to impressive effect, claiming the music back for proggers

Guitar World

“While I was on the phone, there was this loud noise in the background… It was David, who had been working on one note all day long for two weeks”: He’s spent decades chasing David Gilmour’s guitar tone – now Steve McElroy reveals what he’s learned

The Australian Pink Floyd Show mastermind has bought just about every piece of gear Gilmour has ever used. He reveals the secrets behind his Strat tones and techniques – and settles a few myths and legends

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