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‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll

As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ review of The Crown

The Guardian - UK

“I met a gorgeous Steven Wilson fan. I then introduced her to my girlfriend… the story is told in my song Beautiful Night”: Franck Carducci’s life in prog

Leader of the Fantastic Squad on moonrise during a Roger Waters show, receiving a career kickstart at his favourite venue, and why Paul McCartney is his prog hero

Louder

Body and Soul

Dan was the most physical person I knew. Then he broke his neck

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‘He’s a control freak’: 12 bandmates who hate each other, from Oasis to Pink Floyd

Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

The Independent UK

The 22 most expensive guitars of all time

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction

Guitar World

The history of rock band logos, from the 1960s to the present day

From The Beatles to today's biggest bands, this is how rock band logos continue to evolve.

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"We have one rule: you can have body punches and choke-holds and throw bottles at each other, but we never crack each other in the face": What happens when bands fight

The 40 bitterest bust-ups in rock history: From fisticuffs to wars of words to litigation and beyond, rock'n'roll’s divorce courts are packed with ire and animosity:

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"Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller

Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made

Louder

Report: Roger Waters denied hotel stays in Argentina and Uruguay over allegations of antisemitism

Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay have reportedly rejected reservations for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over accusations of antisemitism leveled at the British singer known for his pro-Palestinian views

The Independent UK

In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band

Louder

“The sounds of plucked elastic bands and scraping broomsticks are the last hurrah for the old Pink Floyd”: Household Objects, the lost album that nearly followed Dark Side

For over three decades, a two-minute clip of tuned wine glasses was the only sign of a project begun in 1980 and finally abandoned four years later

Louder

As Dark Side of the Moon: Redux shows, when it comes to lyrics, less is usually more

There’s a scene in The Simpsons episode, Lisa The Simpson (1998), where Lisa is watching a jazz violinist’s performance and a man is criticising it. “You have to listen to the notes she doesn’t play,” Lisa says in the music’s defence. “I can do that at home,” the man drily…

The Conversation

Pink Floyd fans left unimpressed after Roger Waters ‘tells audience to f**k off’ during ‘awkward’ London show

The musician left the audience stunned after he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing as had been billed

Evening Standard

Roger Waters ‘spent 30 minutes reading from unpublished memoir’ during ‘awkward’ London show

Controversial musician apparently scolded hecklers and ‘ranted about Julian Assange’ during performance described by critics as ‘uncomfortable’

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Roger Waters should be allowed to play, it’s the weak response from so-called allies I’m furious about

The rock singer’s anti-semitic statements should be greeted without apologism, as they would be if they referred to any other marginalised group

Evening Standard

Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on his BMI Icon Award: ‘I had more nerves on that stage than on any stage before’

The celebrated songwriter talks imposter syndrome, Spandau Ballet’s legacy, and the alchemy of penning a hit single

Louder

Pink Floyd to release newly remastered Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl, CD and Blu-ray

Pink Floyd's seminal album The Dark Side Of The Moon will be reissued in October

Metal Hammer

“We put a lot of money, time and effort into it, then it disappeared.” The story of Metallica: Through The Never – how metal’s biggest band and a Spider-Man star disastrously bombed at the box office

Metallica wanted to make their answer to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same, and even hired future Spider-Man star Dane DeHaan to help. But then Metallica: Through The Never became one of the band’s most costly misadventures.

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Recorded between the gruelling Animals tour and the psycho-drama that was The Wall, the sentiments Richard Wright expressed in Wet Dream could apply to Pink Floyd as much as to his disintegrating marriage...

Richard Wright's Wet Dream album: The Pink Floyd keyboardist’s underrated solo debut remixed

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"Loath to actually leave Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett made it so they had to chuck him out. And none of them ever got over it": Storm Thorgerson's documentary on the Pink Floyd founder reviewed

Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett And Pink Floyd reviewed

Louder

“Updating The Wall for disaffected, mid-90s youth”: The prog roots of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral

Trent Reznor’s 1994 epic explored the collapse of a character like Pink Floyd had done 15 years earlier - but in a musically different manner

Louder

"I had a phone call from Dave Gilmour and he said, 'Would you be interested in coming down?'. Former XTC man Colin Moulding on how he almost joined Pink Floyd!

Revelations from former XTC bassist, singer and songwriter Colin Moulding when he released his TC&I EP Great Aspirations with old band mate Terry Chambers

LiveScience

Listen to Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall,' as decoded from human brain waves

Researchers reconstructed recognizable snippets of the classic Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall" using listeners' recorded brain activity.

Louder

"It sounds a bit like they’re speaking underwater, but it’s our first shot at this": scientists have recreated Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall using patients' brainwaves

Boffins made the breakthrough while study the auditory regions of the brain - and you can hear the results

Inverse

Neuroscientists Reconstructed Snippets of a Pink Floyd Song From a Person’s Thoughts

A new study discovers a brain region called the superior temporal gyrus is necessary for perceiving musical rhythm and recreating it from brain activity.

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