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And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

The Guardian - UK

“Though every note has been learned and rehearsed and played, you need to think, ‘Oh, there’s something about the feel that had before that it’s gone forever’”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the Pink Floyd solo that accidentally got erased

The Pink Floyd guitarist reveals the track whose (one of many) solos got deleted amid the Animals recording sessions

Guitar World

“Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If it had Pink Floyd on the cover, it would have sold millions”: BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty’s prog record collection

The pundit, who met John Wetton and Geoff Downes through their mutual love of the sport, recommends albums by Asia, Supertramp, Marillion and others

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Performers unveiled for Ozzy Osbourne tribute at the VMAs

The awards show is set to be broadcast live this Sunday

The Independent UK

"Hey Roger Waters 🦆 You!" Jack Osbourne doubles down on Roger Waters roast with emoji-powered social media post

The fallout from Roger Waters' criticism of Ozzy Osbourne continues

Metal Hammer

Jack Osbourne Tearfully Reveals the 3:45 a.m. Door Knock That Told Him Ozzy Had Passed

Jack Osbourne tearfully recounts the moment a family employee knocked at 03:45 to tell him his father Ozzy had died at 76; the funeral procession in Birmingham drew thousands, and the family continues to preserve the rock legend's legacy.

International Business Times UK

“My father always thought you were a ... Thanks for proving him right": Which rock legend has been on the other end of a tongue-lashing from Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack?

After some insensitive comments about his old man

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'How pathetic': Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack blasts Pink Floyd star for 'vomiting out bulls***' about late dad

Roger Waters, 81, shared his thoughts on Ozzy, who died aged 76 in July, in a recent interview

Evening Standard

Why Does Roger Waters Hate Ozzy Osbourne? Pink Floyd Legend's Brutal Black Sabbath Snub Ignites Rock Rivalry

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters dismissed the late Black Sabbath icon with unusually blunt remarks, saying he 'never did' care for Osbourne's music.

International Business Times UK

What Did Roger Waters Say About Ozzy Osbourne? Jack Osbourne's Explosive Response Explained

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters ignited controversy after making disparaging remarks about Ozzy Osbourne on a podcast. Jack Osbourne delivered an explosive Instagram response, defending his father's legacy and fuelling a wider debate about respect, satire and rock history.

International Business Times UK

"How pathetic and out of touch you've become." Jack Osbourne issues scathing response to Roger Waters after comments about his father Ozzy

Jack Osbourne lets loose on Waters after the former Pink Floyd man disses Ozzy during an anti-media diatribe

Metal Hammer

Jack Osbourne slams ‘pathetic’ Roger Waters for disparaging Ozzy remarks

Pink Floyd musician drew the ire of the Black Sabbath frontman’s son, after he made a series of dismissive comments about the late rocker

The Independent UK

Jack Osbourne blasts Roger Waters over "pathetic” remarks about late father Ozzy Osbourne

Jack Osbourne has slammed Roger Waters for disrespecting his father Ozzy Osbourne after his death.

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"He was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense": Roger Waters takes media to task for Ozzy Osbourne coverage, Jack Osbourne responds

Jack Osbourne doesn't hold back after Roger Waters disses Ozzy during anti-media diatribe

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“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

As we approach Wish You Were Here's 50th anniversary, we analyse the sublimely strange structure of its ambitious title track

Louder

“Peaceful citizens of conscience have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian." Massive Attack hit out at the "moral vacuum" of Keir Starmer's government as musician Peter Perrett, 73, is arrested at London protest

"UK civil liberties are trapped in a deeply cynical, manufactured crisis" - Robert del Naja

Louder

“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

Louder

"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

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“It’s for the ‘big spliff’ crowd, who frankly get terrified by Dogs or The Wall”: The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River

The biggest influence on The Endless River? Pink Floyd themselves. Here are the sounds from the band’s past that informed their 2014 release

Euronews

Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters faces possible prosecution over support for Palestine Action

Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters faces possible prosecution after declaring that Palestine Action “is not a terrorist organisation". As of 5 July 2025 in the UK, the organisation is considered a terrorist group under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Louder

"I am Spartacus." Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters risks prosecution, and a potential 14 year jail term, by voicing his support for Palestine Action, now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK

"Stand up and be counted" writes Waters on social media in post supporting newly proscribed terrorist group

Louder

“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

The story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic songs

We Got This Covered

‘I support Palestine Action, and I always will’: Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters may face up to 14 years in prison for Palestine support

Get him up against the wall!!!

The Independent UK

Live 8 – 20 years on: how the Pink Floyd reunion topped a miraculous line-up

PLAYBACK: Macca played with Bono and George Michael, Elton John with Pete Doherty, but getting Roger Waters and David Gilmour together for the final time really took some doing. Mark Beaumont remembers a history-making day, with the help of Razorlight and UB40

Louder

Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters concert film This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie opens in cinemas worldwide in July. The soundtrack will be released in August

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