Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Pink Floyd

“Led Zeppelin’s fee went from £500 to £20,000 in a year!” Collapsing stages and no toilets: The 1969 Bath Blues Festival that inspired Glastonbury

They sold 7000 tickets – and 30,000 people turned up. How The Bath Blues Festivals became the inspiration to a young Michael Eavis and Glastonbury.

Louder

Richard Wright's Wet Dream set for July reissue

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright's debut solo album Wet Dream has been remixed by Steven Wilson

Louder

How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids

Released in June 2003, The Mars Volta's debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prog-punk masterpiece

Metal Hammer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Marillion and four great gifts in the new issue of Prog, on sale now...

Plus Francis Monkman, Dave Stewart, Renaissance, Rod Argent Wishbone Ash, Lazuli and loads more...

Louder

Listen to a haunting version of Metallica's The Unforgiven sung in the indigenous Inuktitut language

Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie covers Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Rolling Stones and more on upcoming album Inuktitut

Metal Hammer

Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino”

The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs

Guitar World

This week’s essential guitar tracks: from a former Megadeth shredder’s Pink Floyd cover to Dumble-assisted slide brilliance

Fresh six-string inspiration from Joe Bonamassa, Voice of Baceprot, Cory Wong, Alice Cooper, Rivers of Nihil, Duff McKagan and oh so many more

Guitar World

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

Louder

Extraordinary moment Manchester bee lands on Roger Waters halting AO Arena show

"That is unbelievable"

Manchester Evening News

Roger Waters slams 'some f***ing Manchester MP trying to get me banned' after calls to cancel AO Arena show

Pink Floyd founder Waters has drawn international criticism over claims he is espousing antisemitic views in his shows

Manchester Evening News

Michael Gove and Keir Starmer criticise Roger Waters amid antisemitism claims

The minister said the rocker was ‘falling short’ of expectations that people with a significant public profile did not ‘abuse their platform’.

The Independent UK

US calls Roger Waters 'anti-Semitic' after Nazi costume furor

WASHINGTON: The United States government on Tuesday joined the accusations of anti-Semitism lodged against Roger Waters after the rock legend wore a Nazi-style uniform at a Berlin concert in what he called a statement against fascism.

Bangkok Post

US weighs in on Roger Waters antisemitism debate, says artist has long history of denigrating Jews

The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and his recent performances in Germany that have been deemed antisemitic by some

The Independent UK

US calls Roger Waters performance in Berlin 'deeply offensive to Jewish people'

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday weighed in on a controversy over a performance by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, denouncing the show in Berlin as "deeply offensive to Jewish people" and accusing Waters of having a record of using antisemitic tropes.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Record

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters stops by Glasgow restaurant during run of sold out Hydro gigs

Swadish by Ajay Kumar took to Instagram to share a snap of their famous guest.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow call for solidarity with Jewish community ahead of Roger Waters gigs

The Board of Deputies of British Jews raised concerns with Glasgow City Council over Roger Waters' performances at the Hydro this weekend.

Guitar World

Celebrating 50 years of The Dark Side of the Moon: inside the magical guitar sounds of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece

How one of rock’s greatest studio albums came together onstage, and what David Gilmour used to craft some of the most sought-after guitar tones in music history

Guitar World

Snowy White: "It's funny that I used a Strat for Pigs on the Wing. I was so used to my Les Paul – I was surprised I felt as comfortable as I did. I still hated it, but I got through it"

The rock guitar gun for hire reveals why he was initially hesitant to play with Pink Floyd, how he divvied up parts with David Gilmour, and what it was like navigating the tension between Gilmour and Roger Waters

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jewish groups and city officials protest against Roger Waters concert in Frankfurt

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame has drawn ire for his support for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. He recently performed in a costume that reminded some of a Nazi uniform. That incident is under investigation.

The Independent UK

Robert F Kennedy Jr defends Roger Waters against ‘high priests of totalitarianism’ in Berlin antisemitism row

Presidential candidate, who has apologised in the past for allegedly antisemitic remarks, tweets support for musician

The Independent UK

Jewish groups and city officials plan protest against Roger Waters concert in Frankfurt

Several Jewish groups, politicians and an alliance of civil society groups are planning a memorial ceremony and a protest rally against a concert by Roger Waters in Frankfurt

Daily Mirror

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters breaks silence on Nazi-style costume after huge upset

Pink Floyd co-founder, singer and bassist Roger Waters has hit back after being accused of angering fans in Germany by wearing a Nazi-style outfit on stage

Bangkok Post

Roger Waters dismisses 'Nazi' suit criticism as political

BERLIN: Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters on Saturday slammed the controversy that erupted after he donned a Nazi-style uniform at a Berlin concert as politically motivated.

Al Jazeera

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters says Berlin gig controversy a ‘smear’

Waters said depictions of an ‘unhinged fascist demagogue’ have been featured in Pink Floyd concerts since 1980.

ABC News

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters being investigated by German police for using Nazi-style uniform in Berlin

The Pink Floyd co-founder describes negative commentary about a costume used in performances since the 1980s as "disingenuous and politically motivated".

1 … 11 12 13 14

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.