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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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Poem released in honour of Pink Floyd's seminal LP Wish You Were Here by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

The new poem pays tribute to the "creativity" of late frontman Syd Barrett.

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Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12

The Guardian - UK

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12

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“I remember sitting down with Roger and saying, ‘Roger, this is insane!’”: The strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975

Only two tracks have ever been heard from what could have been Pink Floyd's most divisive record

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You’ve probably never heard of this band, but their new album is a devastating space-metal odyssey for fans of Pink Floyd, Tool and great music in general

Psychonaut are far from superstars in the metal scene, but World Maker deserves to change that

Guitar World

“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the chance of a Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters

The powerhouse Gilmour–Waters partnership is no more – and Floyd fans will most likely never experience it again

The Independent UK

‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

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