Earlier this month, Roger Waters, the creative power and song writing force behind Pink Floyd, released his first rock album in 25 years.
Classicsdujour.com is celebrating the release of Is This The Life We Really Want? by giving you the chance to win a vinyl copy autographed by Roger!
You can enter by clicking here for your chance to win the grand prize! Plus, additional runner up winners will receive a digital download of the full album!
Hosted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), Waters will discuss his support for the cultural boycott of Israel and Palestinians’ rights with Noura Erakat, a Palestinian human rights attorney and activist.
The conversation will stream live on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement’s Facebook page at 1 p.m. ET.
“All of the people that live in that region should have rights — all our Jewish friends who are in Israel who live there, but also all our Palestinian and Arab friends. They should have equal rights. And that is my only beef. Just as all the people who live in the United States of America should have equal rights. All of them, regardless of their color, creed, race or religion.”
– Roger Waters (on his beef with Israel over its dispute with Palestine)
Just two months to go – Don’t miss this one night only opportunity to see the spectacular film of David Gilmour Live at Pompeii, in cinemas worldwide on September 13th. Tickets and more information: www.DavidGilmourCinemaTickets.com
The Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2017 has just come to an end, AFG Correspondant Phil Evans was on hand and has kindly sent in some photographs of Nick Mason with his £50 Million Ferrari 250 GTO.
The Festival of Speed been running since 1993 and offers enthusiasts an unrivalled opportunity to get close to the action, and to meet the great champions who gather at Goodwood each summer. With the enthusiasm and investment of the wider motoring and motorsport community, FOS has become an internationally celebrated, sell-out occasion.
On the evening of June 16th, The V&A Museum in London hosted its Pink Floyd Weekender, Which consisted of three days of special events, music and performance taking place across the Museum, to celebrate The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains.
The event included painting, pop up performances, film screenings and hands-on workshops, there was everything from relaxing music in the museum cafe, guitar workshops, and a fascinating sounding study day with participation from the likes of Nick Mason and Peter Wynne Willson!
AFG are looking to do a review for this event and are asking anyone who attended to please get in touch
You can contact us by sending your email to liam@pinkfloydz.com
Fewer things add more value to a collectible car than a celebrity’s name scrawled in the log book.
So expect to pay big bucks if you want to get your hands on some of the cars up for auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a week’s time.
That’s because the lot list includes an incredibly rare Ferrari F40 that was formerly driven by Pink Floyd guitarist and platinum-selling solo artist David Gilmour
Gilmour’s Ferrari F40 is one of the highly collectible early generation cars.
You can tell by the sliding side windows – newer versions had manual wind-down windows.
Ferrari F40s are selling for silly money these days – a low mileage example sold at an RM Sotheby’s auction last year for £1million.
Bonhams would expect this car to achieve something similar (though it has refused to put an estimate on this collector’s item) as it was first owned by Pink Floyd singer and guitarist, David Gilmour.
David and then band mate Nick Mason went to pick their matching F40s up from Ferrari’s Fiorano test track shortly after performing in Modena as part of a 1988 tour – the pair then enjoyed a trip across Europe back to the UK in Italian stallion formation.
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The release of Roger Waters’ new LP, Is This the Life We Really Want?, has been temporarily blocked in Italy after an Italian artist claimed the cover art plagiarizes his work, The cover, which features a body of text redacted with black ink, leaving only the album title, copies his trademark “erasure” technique.
A Milan judge temporarily blocked the album’s digital and physical sales ahead of a hearing on June 27.
Courtesy of Phil Clarkin Photography
Terry from T-Mak World has been in touch to let us know that he has conducted a new interview with non other than Dave Kilminster, Dave is a long standing member of Rogers touring band and his been on every tour since the 2006 – 2008 Dark Side Of The Moon Tour.
From Dave Himself “Ok, this is undoubtedly the most honest and revealing interview that I’ve ever done… and it’s also very possible that it might upset a few people, so apologies in advance!!”
Music writer Richard Houghton has sent us an email in and has asked for fans of Pink Floyd to get in touch to help him write a people’s history of the group. Richard – who has already compiled similar books about The Beatles, The Who and the Rolling Stones – is trying to tell the story of Pink Floyd in the words of fans who were there. He is looking to hear from fans of the band from any era, but is particularly keen to hear from anyone who saw them in the Sixties or Seventies.
Richard said: ‘I’m hoping to tell the band’s story in a slightly different way, to create an oral history of Pink Floyd. I’ve collected over a hundred stories so far, including some great Syd era memories, but I’d like to hear from anyone who’s seen the band. I’m interested in what people remember of the first show they saw but also how they became a Floyd fan and what their favourite album or track is.’
Richard’s book, entitled Pink Floyd – I Was There, is scheduled for publication by Red Planet Books in Spring 2018.
Richard can be reached at isawpinkfloyd@gmail.com