Posted: 02/06 @ 09:02 pmAs Pink Floyd prepares reissue of The Wall, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and …
The surviving members of Pink Floyd will be special guests on the nationally syndicated U.S. program Rockline with host Bob Coburn on Wednesday, February 22.
David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters will be on hand to discuss the ongoing Immersion and Experience series of Pink Floyd album reissues. Fans are encouraged to call in beginning at 11:30 p.m. Eastern to ask questions at 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). For more information, go to: http://www.rocklineradio.com/
Pink Floyd is set to release the Immersion and Experience editions of The Wall, the final installment of the series, on February 28. The Wall is Pink Floyd’s best selling project, after 1973?s Dark Side of the Moon. The 1979 double-album opus topped the album charts in the U.S., France, Germany, Sweden and Australia, while the track “Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2? — Pink Floyd’s initial UK single since 1968 — became a charttopping smash, selling more than one million units within weeks of its release.
In advance of this new reissue of The Wall, the band has issued a new video sampler:
The album has proven to be something of a rallying point for Gilmour, Mason and Waters in the wake of co-founding member Richard Wright’s passing in 2008. Last year, as Waters presented a solo version of The Wall at London’s 02 Arena, he was joined by the remaining members of Pink Floyd for a rare and emotional reunion.
Waters new production of The Wall continues into North America in 2012.
Here’s a look back at our recent thoughts on Pink Floyd. Click through the titles for complete reviews …
HAVE A CIGAR!: CELEBRATING PINK FLOYD’S MASSIVE REISSUE PROJECT: Psych-rockers Pink Floyd and EMI are launching an exhaustive re-release campaign, beginning today. You could say that tickled us … pink. Released under the banner “Why Pink Floyd?,” the band will start by issuing remastered editions of all 14 of its albums, with a staggered schedule to follow of unreleased material from its archives for super-deluxe box sets. The remastered studio albums are available either separately or as a box set. To celebrate, we took reminisced about a few key cuts.
RICHARD WRIGHT (1943-2008): AN APPRECIATION: Wright met Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Along with the late Syd Barrett, the four later formed Pink Floyd in 1965. David Gilmour completed an initial, short-lived quintet, which quickly became known for jazz-infused rock and drug-laced multimedia “happenings.” Barrett and Wright were the band’s first creative forces (the keyboardist made notable contributions, for instance, on Ummagumma, Meddle and the ageless Dark Side of the Moon), but later took a backseat to Waters through The Wall era. By the early 1980s both Barrett — he flamed out before the Floyd’s heyday — and Wright had left. Wright returned later in the decade to a Water-less version of Pink Floyd with Gilmour and Mason. He also continued a sporadic solo career (including 1978?s Wet Dream and 1996?s Broken China) and worked on Gilmour releases, too. We celebrated his legacy with a look back at some of our previous entries on Wright, Barrett, Gilmour, Waters and the band Pink Floyd.
GIMME FIVE: SONGS WHERE PINK FLOYD, WELL, SUCKED: Everybody went through a Pink Floyd phase, right? But, the child is grown; the dream is gone. Let’s face it, some of this stuff, well, sucked. So while we still have a deep respect — and I mean that most sincerely — for, say, Dark Side of the Moon, careful adult inspection reveals that even that psych-masterpiece boasts at least one awful clunker. So, have a cigar, as we count down the stuff that didn’t quite make their hall-of-fame resume — the ones where they were tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit … well, you get the idea.






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