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Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon SACD Reissue

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It's Here! Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon SACD

A multitrack masterpiece. Mixed for 5.1 surround sound and stereo from the original analog master tapes by Pink Floyd Producer/Engineer James Guthrie

Another classic Pink Floyd title receives the multichannel reissue treatment and Acoustic Sounds and Analogue Productions is once again been chosen to handle exclusive distribution of this monumental SACD. How lucky we all are to hear this legendary studio recording realize its full potential. The SACD also of course includes a stunning stereo mix. And as this is a hybrid disc, the album is of course also playable on a standard CD player.

This is Pink Floyd at its collective finest, with everyone contributing. David Gilmour took a huge chunk of the music — writing, laying down the chord progressions on “Breathe,” “Time,” and “Any Colour You Like,” plus the singing on the album’s best songs, Water conceeding to David’s far superior voice. Gilmour also pumped out what would later be hailed as some of rock’s most influential lead-guitar riffs on “Money” and “Brain Damage.”

By all industry standards, The Dark Side Of The Moon is a phenomenon. Known for its complex instrumental textures, the album firmly established Pink Floyd as one of the most innovative bands in rock history. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968.

The Dark Side of the Moon produced two singles: “Money” and “Us and Them.” The album topped the Billboard chart for a week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Following a change in how Billboard counts sales in 2009, it re-entered the chart and has since appeared for over 900 weeks. With estimated sales of more than 45 million, it is Pink Floyd’s bestselling album and one of the bestselling worldwide.

Release Date 28th August 2021 – Pre-Orders being taken now by Roughtrade in the UK and Acoustic Sounds in the USA & Rest of World

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 47 with Adam Clayton

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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 46 and features guest Adam Clayton of U2

Available from 25th July 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

Chester Kamen Of David Gilmour & Roger Waters Fame Debuts New Single “The Wife Of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold”

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The Wife Of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. By Chester Kamen

Chester Kamen, Former lead guitarist with Roger Waters band and last seen playing With David Gilmour on the 2016 Rattle That Lock tour has been busy writing and working on his forthcoming album,

In early 2021, we have seen the release of “Child Of The Damned” and “Stories” which are both featured on the “Take This “ album which is currently in progress.

Now in July 2021 we have “The Wife Of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold“

As Chester says briefly “It’s my latest attempt to write a blues like Dylan that has been covered by Jimi. (Well you’ve got to aim at something!) Drums by Saleem Raman and bass by Jovan Radujko, thanks to them both. Backtrack recorded on 8 track tape, Shepherd’s Bush pre COVID, lyrics added post-COVID on radar 24 track. Once again there is much found footage as well my own filming contained in the video.“

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 46 with Martin Kemp

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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 46 and features guest Martin Kemp

Available from 17th July 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 45 with Harry Shearer

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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 45 and features guest Harry Shearer

Available from 10th July 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 43 with Richard Thompson

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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 43 and features guest Richard Thompson

Available from 4th July 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

Rockonteurs Nominated For Listeners’ Choice Award

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Rockonteurs is a weekly podcast all about the real stories behind real music. Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, featuring exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Guests include rock gods Jon Bon Jovi and David Coverdale, AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson, Duran Duran’s John Taylor, guitar hero Johnny Marr and billion-dollar hitmaker Nile Rodgers.

Having started the podcast amidst the uncertainty of the global Covid-19 pandemic, Rockonteurs has proven itself to be one of the most listened to podcasts online, with episode number 41 featuring ex-Oasis songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher shooting them to the top of the Itunes Top 10 Podcasts.

Recently Guy and Gary have been nominated for the Listeners’ Choice Award – By The British Podcast Awards supported by BBC Sounds,
You can vote for your favourite podcast by Clicking Here or the Image Above and searching for it by, filling in your details and clicking the confirmation link that is emailed to you. You can only vote for a podcast once.

The winner will be revealed on Saturday 10th July 2021 at the British Podcast Awards, powered by Amazon Music.

Voting closes on Sunday 4th July 2021 at 23:59

16 Year Celebration Of 2005 Pink Floyd Live 8 Reunion

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Held 16 years ago today, Live 8 saw a string of historic concerts take place in the G8 states on July 2nd 2005. The run of shows were iconic for a number of reasons, a time when the great and the good of music came together to fight against global poverty which even saw Pink Floyd’s full line-up reunite for one last time at London’s Hyde Park.

The Hyde Park concert saw the likes of Paul McCartney performing with U2 as well as a solo set from the former Beatle. The Who also took to the stage as did The Killers, Snoop Dogg, Madonna and a bizarre duet of T. Rex’s ‘Children of the Revelation’ from Elton John and Peter Doherty. Despite the big names in attendance, it was Floyd’s reunion that was the show-stealer.

For Bob Geldof to get the band to reunite was a coup. With the broken relationship of Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and David Gilmour well documented, the pair hadn’t communicated in years let alone shared a stage. In fact, while the preparations were going ahead, the two had become so distant that after Waters was approached about possibly reuniting the outfit he had to ask organiser Bob Geldof for his former bandmate’s phone number.

Geldof had some trouble in convincing Gilmour to get on board with the project, the guitarist allegedly likened linking up with Waters again to “sleeping with your ex-wife”. Waters, however, managed to get Gilmour to come around to realise this was much bigger than Pink Floyd and he saw the wider picture. The show would be the first time that the iconic line-up of David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright performed together since their 1981 concert at Earl’s Court in London.

Artists were only granted a 20-minute set which made it difficult for the band to narrow it down to just a few songs to perform at Hyde Park, a topic which led to further clashes between Gilmour and Waters. Gilmour downright refused to play ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ as he didn’t believe the message was appropriate for Live 8.

“Anyway, I don’t like it much. It’s all right but not part of the great emotional oeuvre,” Gilmour said in a 2006 interview. “The songs that Roger wanted were not the ones I thought we should do. The arrangements of the songs were not the way Roger wanted to do them. But I kind of insisted.”

Floyd finally settled on four songs which were The Dark Side of the Moon’s ‘Breathe’ and ‘Money’ followed by ‘Wish You Were Here’ before concluding their set beautifully with ‘Comfortably Numb’.

A poignant moment came during the set when Waters paid a tribute to the band’s original leader, the late Syd Barrett: “It’s actually quite emotional to be standing up here with these three guys again, after all these years – standing to be counted with the rest of you,” Waters said as they began to play ‘Wish You Were Here’ before he added: “Anyway, we’re doing this for the people who’re not here – and particularly, of course, for Syd.”

Live 8 was the perfect way for them to bid farewell to Pink Floyd for good and reunite one more time before Richard Wright’s passing three years later in 2008. The band were offered a staggering $150 million for a US tour following their appearance at Hyde Park but decided against it as they believed this was the ultimate fashion to bow out.

Pink Floyd Live 8 2005

AFG Exclusive : Unseen Photographs From 1984 About Face Tour

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About Face is the second solo studio album by the Pink Floyd singer and musician David Gilmour. It was released in 5 March 1984 by Harvest in the UK and Columbia in the United States, a day before Gilmour’s 38th birthday.

The album was followed with a supporting tour, which lasted from 31 March – 16 July 1984, covering Europe and North America.

A VHS was released in September 1984 entitled “David Gilmour Live 1984”. The film is mainly a concert performance from The Hammersmith Odeon in London in April 1984. It also features promotional clips. Lastly, a documentary called After The Floyd which followed Gilmour on the 1984 solo tour and includes interviews with David on tour buses (the bus driver referred to David as ex-guitarist of Pink Floyd) and in hotel rooms. Also included is more live footage of concerts and soundchecks in Europe. It is now out of production.

The VHS was not released in Europe, apparently due to “lack of commercial interest”. This concert footage is now to be found on DVD, released by Crime Crow Productions.The DVD, however, does not contain the extra footage that could be found on the VHS.

Similarly, Sony Music has shown little interest in releasing the title on DVD in the US, possibly due to the age of the concert as well as Gilmour’s own dislike of About Face as an album.

We have recently been in contact with Michael Beers a Former Freelance writer with JAM Magazine and keen photographer enthusiast who has shared his personal collection from the tour for the first time online.

Click on the thumbnails below to view images in full size.

David Gilmour at the Kabuki Theater in SF on June 29, 1984.

 

 

David Gilmour at Cal Expo amphitheater in Sacramento on June 28, 1984


Our thanks go to Michael for his contributions.

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 42 with Marianne Faithfull

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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 42 and features guest Marianne Faithfull

Available from 27th June 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page