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“That was the one time Kiss succumbed to the critics. We wanted a critical success. And we lost our minds”: This sci-fi concept album was Kiss’s attempt to match The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Instead it became their most epic fail

Even Gene Simmons is embarrassed by it

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After 50 years, Pink Floyd have released an official music video for one of their greatest and best-loved songs

Watch the official music video for Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here

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Renate Reinsve on vomit-inducing reviews and 19-minute standing ovations: ‘You feel your face go stiff from smiling so long’

The Norwegian star was considering giving up acting to be a carpenter when Joachim Trier wrote The Worst Person in the World for her. Now the pair have teamed up again – but she refuses to get carried away by all the praise

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Kylie Minogue gets her – and Amazon’s – first Christmas No 1, with Xmas

Exclusive song for online retailer prevents a hat trick of Christmas No 1s for Wham!, as Kylie becomes first woman to secure UK No 1 singles in four different decades

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“My first boyfriend introduced me to The Wall. It was the only interesting thing about him”: Author and musician Joanne Harris on having the audacity to perform Pink Floyd, Rick Wakeman and Genesis music in her school band

She explains why prog makes her think of Barnsley, lists some of her favourite records and recalls taking her daughter to a Genesis tribute show only to hear her say: “Ah yes, Mastodon!”

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Debate: “They were never the same after…” What’s the most seismic line-up change in prog history?

From Yes and Pink Floyd to Dream Theater and Queensryche, most bands have experienced personnel issues over the years. Which change was the best, and which was the worst?

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“I argued very strongly that we shouldn’t play Another Brick In The Wall at the school fête, as it was disrespectful. Oh God! That was me”: Slow Horses showrunner Will Smith’s record collection

Stand-up, actor, novelist and producer on how much Marillion means to him, the four lines of Jon Anderson lyrics that bring him to tears, his favourite Vangelis soundtrack and his claim that Dire Straits are a prog band

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‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50

As the classic album hits 50, Nick Mason talks about the often difficult process of making it and how it has since fit into their larger catalogue

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Sharon Osbourne nearly sent Roger Waters a box of her poop after cruel Ozzy Osbourne comments

Roger Waters was nearly sent a box of Sharon Osbourne's poop after he trolled her late husband Ozzy shortly after his death.

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Sharon Osbourne Breaks Her Silence On Kelly’s Heartbreaking Weight Loss

Sharon Osbourne shut down trolls, saying her daughter Kelly Osbourne wasn’t happy and “can’t eat right now.”

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"To start with, we didn’t have an idea between us. There wasn’t a song, there wasn’t a tune." Pink Floyd's Nick Mason says that making Wish You Were Here was "like hitting a brick wall"

"We weren’t four lovable mop tops anymore"

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“A caustic David Gilmour guitar attack, with Roger Waters equally venomous in his lyrical delivery”: Pink Floyd’s 10 heaviest songs

They may be known for soundscapes and atmospheres, but when the moment took them, they cranked it up to 11 – sometimes reflecting the darkness and tension between the members

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Roger Waters mocked with official Ozzy Osbourne "Another Prick In The Wall" t-shirt

The diss merch is only available for 48 hours

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“It was the last embers of mine and Roger’s ability to work collaboratively together”: The transcendent Pink Floyd song that David Gilmour says marked the beginning of the end for the band

It featured not one but two astounding guitar solos

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“An intense work of dark, progressive beauty staggered out of the wreckage”: Blending Pink Floyd and Kate Bush, this band sustained permanent damage as they tore themselves away from Britpop

The lead members’ relationship never recovered after making a 1994 record that was condemned as pretentious and pompous – although that’s what they wanted it to be

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“When you were in that taxi saying Pink Floyd are w*nkers, my brother was driving it!” How Bob Geldof ended up in The Wall despite everything

The future Live Aid organiser hated Pink Floyd –but he still ended up starring the movie version of their 1979 album

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"The music is perfectly in sync with the visuals!" Noel Fielding opens up on his love for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

Noel Fielding has created several paintings of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett to help promote the upcoming reissue of Wish You Were Here

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Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music

Pink Floyd will reissue their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, on various formats on December 12

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“If you were told to listen to us because you like Tool, that’s a positive. But if you listen just for those similarities, you’ll miss out”: The heart and soul that went into Soen’s Tellurian

Comfortable with their connections to Opeth and Pink Floyd, the Swedish band evolved on their second album – which features a rhino eating tiny people on the cover

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“Bacchanalian, primal, subversive, translucent… like what might happen if Robert Fripp’s drink had been spiked with acid”: 10 great psychedelic songs that’ll shake any prog fan’s tree (but aren't by Pink Floyd)

Revolutionary music from Yes, John McLaughlin, Pretty Things, Tangerine Dream, Strawbs and more, including a song that was prog even before prog was prog

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“If I’d put a live act together we’d have conquered the world. But it was a fear I had – what does a record producer do onstage? It was unfounded. We should have done it”: Studio veteran reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a big name himself

The Pink Floyd collaborator thought his career would last two years. But in the past five decades he’s had surprise hits, overreacted to a myth about tape, and made colleagues believe his ideas had been their own

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“They told me, ‘David Gilmour’s not going to like this. You’re going to hear some thunder!’ You think he’s going to be one way and then he goes completely the other. And that’s good”: Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River

Gilmour, Nick Mason and colleagues on assembling the unexpected 2014 album that paid tribute to Rick Wright, and his calming presence in a group who were “never a jolly bunch of friends”

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“The edges were bound to fray – we were bound to take from each other. David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The influential folk singer-songwriter who never quite gained stardom, but gained massive respect instead

Acclaimed by Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel, he recalls feeling insulted by the way his best-known album was treated, his short stint in a US prison, and his decision to stop writing long notes to fans on their record sleeves

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David Gilmour is a master of melodic bluesy phrasing – here are 3 ways to cop his style in your own playing

Whether you call these solo ideas minor blues or embellished pentatonic/blues scale, the effect is the same, freeing you up from established patterns to hold your audience's attention

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