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“Pink Floyd at Pompeii — McMlxxii,” the rock band’s 1972 concert film/documentary, will revisit theaters with a restored version that is coming to Imax and other cinema screens starting April 24, followed shortly by a first-time stand-alone release of the soundtrack as an official live album on May 2.

Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Vision are bringing the film back into theaters, to be seen in a 4K digital remaster created from the original 35mm footage. Steven Wilson, whose remixes are well known to fans of classic rock, was behind the board for a new Dolby mix of the movie’s audio.

The live album will come out just a week after the film’s reappearance in cinemas, with Legacy, Sony’s catalog division, issuing it on CD, vinyl, digital audio and Dolby Atmos formats. It’s the first time the music from the film has been commercially released as a stand-alone item.

The influential concert film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, which featured the band performing in the empty, excavated remains of the titular Roman amphitheater, will get a new look this spring. Restored from the original 35mm prints and remastered in 4K with remixed audio by musician and recording engineer Steven Wilson, the film — newly retitled Pink Floyd at Pompeii – McMlxxii — will return to movie theaters, including some IMAX screens, on April 24. Tickets for the picture will go on sale via PinkFloyd.film on March 5.

The band is releasing a six-minute clip of “Echoes,...

Pink Floyd fans rejoice because ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – McMlxxii,’ the groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben, will return to cinemas in Spring 2025.

The re-release has been digitally re-mastered in 4K from the original 35mm footage, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson, the upcoming theatrical release presents the definitive version of this pioneering film.

‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii’ pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. The film documents what Pink Floyd did before they became giants of the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic – where their music remains celebrated to this day.

Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique and immersive film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert without an audience. Filmed in October 1971, the performance marked the very first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features the vital ‘Echoes,’ ‘A Saucerful of Secrets,...

Nirvana’s Nevermind has just become only the ninth release to spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. When you eliminate greatest-hits compilations, it’s only the fourth studio LP to achieve that milestone.

The game-changing 1991 album sits at No. 120 on the latest Billboard 200 chart, it’s 700th non-consecutive week on the overall albums tally. As far as studio albums are considered, only Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (990 weeks), Metallica’s “Black Album” (767 weeks), and Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans (706 weeks) top Nirvana’s sophomore LP.

Among the other releases in the Top 9 are greatest-hits collections from Bob Marley and the Wailers (865 weeks), Journey (835 weeks), Creedence Clearwater Revival (724 weeks), Eminem (714 weeks), and Guns N’ Roses (704 weeks).

Upon its release in September 1991, Nevermind changed the face of rock music. At a time when hair metal was dominating MTV and radio airwaves, the Nirvana album helped usher in a grunge and alternative revolution,...

A new study has found that Pink Floyd inspire the most rock-band tattoos, followed by Guns N’ Roses and Rammstein in second and third.

The tattoo shop LLTattoo in Switzerland conducted the study by examining search volume data from Google Keyword Planner. In first place with over 13,000 monthly searches worldwide was Pink Floyd — whose album covers are among rock music’s most iconic and recognizable.

Guns N’ Roses came in second with just over 10,600 searches — fitting considering the cross image on the cover artwork for Appetite for Destruction was designed by the late tattoo artist Billy White, Jr. — and German industrial metal band Rammstein took third with over 10,500 searches.

“It’s very interesting to see which rock bands inspire the most tattoo pieces around the world. Rock music and ink are seemingly inseparable, and tats are almost obligatory to big rock heads,” Mentor Dedaj of LLTattoo said of the study...

Pink Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd have announced an extensive 2025 Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary tour.

After an initial announcement of North American shows, the tour has been expanded through August. The stateside outing will now run from April 10th in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, through August 27th in Columbia, South Carolina. The tour is highlighted by a show at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on June 5th and four West Coast dates in July featuring Pink Floyd producer/collaborator Alan Parsons.

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The previously announced dates already on sale, while a Live Nation ticket pre-sale for the newly added shows begins Thursday (December 12th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Joy. General ticket sales start Friday (December 13th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The tour will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Pink Floyd’s most beloved and successful albums,...

David Gilmour was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (November 7th), where the legendary Pink Floyd singer-guitarist was asked by the late-night host about the long-running theory involving the album The Dark Side of the Moon and the movie The Wizard of Oz.

Thanks to the “Dark Side of the Rainbow” theory first widely publicized in a 1995 article by Charles Savage in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, it is believed that if you start Dark Side of the Moon at the exact moment the MGM lion roars at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the music syncs nearly perfectly with the scenes in the classic film.

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That has led some people to think that Pink Floyd intentionally recorded the 1973 album to sync with the 1939 movie, a question Fallon asked Gilmour during his appearance on The Tonight Show.

“Well,...

David Gilmour stopped by The Tonight Show to perform his recent song, “Dark and Velvet Nights.” The musician was joined by house band the Roots, as well as four backup singers, for the dynamic performance.

“Dark and Velvet Nights” comes off the Pink Floyd member’s new LP, Luck and Strange, which dropped in September. The album marks Gilmour’s first new solo album in nearly a decade, following 2015’s Rattle That Lock. The title track features keyboards by Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, which was recorded at Gilmour’s...

Pairing classic movies with modern soundtracks is always fun—like playing The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz at the same time—and it works especially well with silent films. When one of Buster Keaton’s masterpieces, Sherlock Jr., is re-released in theaters in February, the music will come from R.E.M.’s Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi albums. Full details are on producer Blue Starlite Entertainment’s “Silents Synced” series website.

A trailer for the release begins with old-timey music before kicking into R.E.

Beginning later this month, David Gilmour will play a limited run of shows in the US in support of his new album, Luck and Strange. Marking his first American performances in eight years, the former Pink Floyd member will take the stage for multiple nights at both the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden in New York City. He’ll also play a one-off concert at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.

In anticipation, a limited number of tickets for Gilmour’s shows at Madison Square Garden have been released by Ticketmaster. The concerts are set for November 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th.

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At his US concerts, Gilmour will be joined a live band that includes Guy Pratt, bass and background vocals; Greg Phillinganes, keyboards; Rob Gentry, keyboards; Adam Betts, drums; Ben Worsley, guitar; Louise Marshall, background vocals; Hattie Webb, background vocals; and Charlie Webb,...

In the ever-evolving landscape of the music industry, the sale of artist catalogs has become a billion-dollar business. Legacy acts, from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen and even the iconic Queen, have cashed in on their life’s work for enormous sums, leading to speculation about how much iconic bands like Pink Floyd could command for their music rights. While the band held off on selling their music for years, a rumor sparked that they recently ended up making $100 million less than they had initially bargained for.

Pink Floyd performing The Dark Side of the Moon at Earls Court in 1973 | Credits: Tim Duncan via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

The deal cut by the iconic band with Sony left many fans scratching their heads and wondering: why would one of the most influential rock bands in history leave such a large sum on the table?

What led to Pink Floyd’s $100 million loss?...

David Gilmour is set to kick off a limited tour of London, Rome, Los Angeles, and New York (get tickets here) later this week in support of his new album, Luck and Strange. As a warm-up, he played a pair of live dress rehearsal shows at Brighton Centre in Brighton, England on Friday (September 20th) and Saturday (September 21st).

During the first concert, Gilmour debuted several songs from the new LP, including “The Piper’s Call,” “Between Two Points,” and “Dark and Velvet Nights.” More than half of the set was made up of classic Pink Floyd material, including many songs he hadn’t played since the mid-2000s.

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Besides performing The Dark Side of the Moon song “Breathe (In the Air)” for the first time since 2006, Gilmour dusted off cuts from The Division Bell like “Marooned” and “A Great Day for Freedom” for the first time since 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Pink Floyd are in “advanced talks” with Sony Music to sell their back catalog for about $500 million, the Financial Times reports.

According to the Financial Times, the sale would include hits from the past 50 years like “Money,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Another Brick in the Wall.” However, the report cautions that “there is no guarantee of an agreement this time given the past problems.”

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The update comes after David Gilmour recently told Rolling Stone it would be a “dream” to sell Pink Floyd’s catalog and get out of the “mud bath” — likely referencing his contentious relationship with former bandmate Roger Waters. In just one relatively recent example of their decades-long tension, Gilmour described Waters as a “misogynistic, antisemitic, Putin apologist” in 2023.

Pink Floyd began exploring a catalog sale in 2022, but those discussions fell apart due to band in-fighting and Waters’ incendiary comments about Ukraine and Israel.

Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is actively interested in selling the band’s catalog, but not because of the financial windfall it would surely bring him. Instead, it’s one less headache he’d have to deal with moving forward.

“To be rid of the decision-making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going is my dream,” he explained in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. “I am not interested in that from a financial standpoint. I’m only interested in it from getting out of the mud bath that it has been for quite a while.”

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The “mud bath” Gilmour speaks is likely in reference to his contentious relationship with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, whom Gilmour described as a “misogynistic, antisemitic, Putin apologist” in 2023. That marked just one relatively recent incident from decades of tension and conflict between the two.

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has shared his new single, “Dark and Velvet Nights,” the latest preview of his forthcoming comeback album, Luck and Strange.

Co-written by Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson, “Dark and Velvet Nights” is a grooving rock track celebrating their love that also shows off his legendary guitar acumen with a solo toward the end. Stream it below.

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“The music sprang out one day. It was so exciting to have come across this groove,” Gilmour recalled in a statement. “Polly had given me a beautiful poem for our wedding anniversary, which was sitting on the desk right next to me, so I picked it up and sang it on the track, to hear what it would sound like with words. I played it to Polly, and she said, ‘Lovely, great, I’ll need fiddle with it a bit.’ So she added a couple of verses,...

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has expressed the utmost confidence in his upcoming solo comeback album, Luck and Strange, describing it as his best piece of work since The Dark Side of the Moon came out five decades ago.

“It’s over 50 years now since The Dark Side of the Moon,” Gilmour told Prog magazine in a recent interview (via Guitar World). “My feeling is that this album is the best album I’ve made in all those years since 1973 when The Dark Side of the Moon came out.”

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Considering that Pink Floyd went on to release further classics with Animals in 1977 and 1979’s The Wall, that’s no small statement. Perhaps Gilmour’s ongoing tensions with former bandmate Roger Waters have tarnished his memory of the albums.

Gilmour has also put out a string of successful solo albums including On an Island and Rattle That Lock,...

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled fifth LP, aka “The Black Album,” just spent its 750th week on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming only the fourth album in history to achieve that milestone.

Billboard reports that “The Black Album” only trails Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (990 weeks), Bob Marley’s best-of compilation Legend (843 weeks), and Journey’s Greatest Hits (813 weeks) as far as the most non-consecutive weeks spent on the all-genre album chart.

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“The Black Album” also remains the best-selling album of the SoundScan era (which began in 1991) with more than 17 million copies sold in the United States alone. The LP features the Metallica classics “Enter Sandman,” “The Unforgiven,” “Sad but True,” “Wherever I May Roam,” and “Nothing Else Matters,” among other songs.

On the latest Billboard 200, “The Black Album” sits at No. 168. For reference, that’s way higher than pop star Justin Timberlake’s new LP,...

David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies” and would rather focus the set around his new album and other periods of Floyd’s history.

“[Other decades] might be better represented,” he said. “I mean, at least one from the Sixties. The one...

Pink Floyd boasts a discography that evokes dynamic emotions and moods, all conveyed within the expansive, experimental mold of progressive rock that feels timeless. Countless franchises, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe, have used tracks from the band's impressive work in their films. For instance, "Interstellar Overdrive" was featured in "Doctor Strange" to convey the nature of Stephen Strange's life before it turned upside-down, while "Time" was used in "Eternals" to set the tone of its worldbuilding. Since both seasons of "Loki" also feature retro-tinted soundscapes that harken to branched timelines and similar cosmic events, it is not a stretch to assume that the show's music was inspired by Pink Floyd.

There is good reason for this assumption, as the show's "Tva Theme," which plays at the end of every episode, sounds remarkably similar to Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar." There is a haunting effect in how the guitar and bass ramp up the mystery,...

St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn was full of good vibes and a spirit of musical collaboration on Nov. 10, as two pairs of unique talents — Lil Yachty and Tierra Whack, and Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane — took the stage for Rolling Stone’s first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event. There was laughter, honesty, and even a couple surprise performances, including a haunting solo-piano version of a Gucci Mane hit.

St Ann’s was decked out with understated elegance — multiple bars, DJ Ro Wyldeflower spinning in the lobby, and blown-up photos...

Which music legend has the best-selling album of all time? It’s the late Michael Jackson with “Thriller,” and it’s not even close. He has certified sales of over 70 million copies, with the next closest competitor at 50 million copies being AC/DC (“Back in Black”) in second place.

Tour our photo gallery below featuring the top 30 best-selling albums of all time as noted on Wikipedia.

Jackson actually appears twice more on the chart with “Bad” (35 million) and “Dangerous” (30 million). Other musical artists to make multiple appearances are The Eagles with “Their Greatest Hits” (44 million) and “Hotel California” (42 million), The Beatles with “1” (31 million), “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (30 million) and “Abbey Road” (30 million), Pink Floyd with “The Dark Side of the Moon” with 45 million and “The Wall” (30 million) and Celine Dion with “Falling into You” (32 million) and “Let’s Talk About Love” (31 million).

The list has a wide range of genres,...

Pink Floyd have released a remaster of their magnum opus The Dark Side of the Moon, out now via Pink Floyd/Warner Music.

The polished-up edition of the album was originally released back in March with The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Box Set, but this is the first time that the standalone Dark Side remaster is available on its own. Pressed on vinyl, CD, and Blu-ray formats, the physical package comes equipped with postcards, stickers, and a 24-page booklet commemorating the record, which Consequence recently crowned one of the greatest albums of all time.

Notably, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side remaster arrives just a week after embattled ex-member Roger Waters shared The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, a track-by-track re-recording of the album on his own terms. He teased it with some — ahem — interesting versions of “Time” and “Money.”

Stream The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary Remaster) below.

Controversial artist Roger Waters is back with a controversial new release: a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, made without the involvement of any of the other members of Pink Floyd. Listen to The Dark Side of the Moon Redux below via Apple Music or Spotify.

Beyond giving Waters the opportunity to one-up his estranged bandmates, re-recording one of the most famous albums of all time appeared to give the artist a chance to update its message for modern times, with a matured perspective. “The original Dark Side of the Moon feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition,” Waters said in a statement. “But Dave [Gilmour], Rick [Wright], Nick [Mason], and I were so young when we made it, and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn’t stuck. That’s why I started...

Roger Waters has unveiled reworked renditions of “Speak To Me / Breathe” from his upcoming album of re-recordings, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, which interpolates Pink Floyd lyrics from “Free Four” off 1972’s Obscured by Clouds.

While the two-part opening track from 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon served as a type of overture introducing sounds and motifs used throughout the album, the redux version appears to similarly set the tone for the new collection. In a spoken word introduction, Waters recites the opening verse of “Free Four,” saying: “The memories of a man in his old age/ Are the deeds of a man in his prime,” which nearly echo his statement announcing the album as “the lament of an elder being on the human condition.”

Later lines such as “Eighty years with luck or even less” also pair nicely with his initial comments on the project where...

Fall festival season is around the corner, so now is a great time to catch up on a Cannes title that was one of summer’s defining indie hits. It involves a beloved (but polarizing) director who regularly attracts Oscar attention.

The contender to watch this week: “Asteroid City”

Wes Anderson‘s latest has been available on VOD since mid-July, but now it’s also streaming on Peacock, which shares a parent company with distributor Focus Features. Anderson is a three-time Best Original Screenplay nominee, and this existential alien-invasion dramedy starring Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson could net the writer-director his fourth nod in that category. (He’d share the recognition with co-writer Roman Coppola.) “Asteroid City” is one of two Anderson films bowing in 2023, the other being a forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.”

Other contenders:

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In the ever-evolving landscape of music, where digital platforms dominate and streaming services reign supreme, one might wonder: Do album covers still hold any significance? After all, with the rise of digital music consumption, physical albums seem to be on the decline. However, beneath the surface lies a hidden world of artistic wonders, where album covers continue to play a pivotal role in capturing the essence of an artist’s vision. In this blog post, we will explore the advantages of album covers created with an album cover art maker like Vista Create and how they contribute to the overall music experience.

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At first glance, an album cover may appear as nothing more than a visual representation of an artist or band. However, it serves as a gateway to the auditory journey that awaits the listener. The cover art is often the first point...

Roger Waters, would rather re-record old Pink Floyd music than reunite with the band’s surviving members for a new tour. As such, on October 6th he’ll release his solo re-recording of the band’s seminal 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Today, he’s previewing (Roger’s Version) with the album’s lead single, his version of “Money.”

Waters produced the LP, titled The Dark Side of the Moon Redux along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band comprising Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson, Johnny Shepherd, and Jon Carin. Notably, the other members of Pink Floyd who helped to create the original, including David Gilmour and Nick Mason, do not appear on the recordings.

“The original Dark Side of the Moon feels in some ways like the lament of an elder being on the human condition,” Waters said in a statement. “But Dave,...

Roger Waters has re-recorded Pink Floyd’s seminal album, The Dark Side of the Moon, and will release it as a solo LP, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, on Oct. 6 via Sgb Music. The reimagined album coincides with the 50th anniversary of the original, but will arrive without the participation of Waters’ formative band. To preview the release, Waters has shared its debut single, “Money.”

Waters produced the LP along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band that includes Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson,...

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason believes getting David Gilmour and Roger Waters on the same page for a reunion would require something like a miracle. While speaking about the band’s The Dark Side of the Moon classic “Time” on the latest episode of The Story Behind the Song, Mason said he thinks it would take someone like the late Nelson Mandela to broker a reconciliation between Gilmour and Waters.

“I think it’s highly unlikely, but I would’ve said that before Live 8 — 10 years ago or 12 years ago, whatever it was,” Mason said. “The one thing I could think would be possible would be if there was some… if by getting back together we could influence saving the planet, world peace, or whatever. Hopefully, we’d step up. But I don’t think otherwise. It would take a Nelson Mandela or someone like that to lead on it.”

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Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary is the story of Hipgnosis, the iconic album art design studio that was a force in the music industry behind some of the most recognizable covers of all time. It features new interviews with Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Noel Gallagher and others.

Turnout was backed by a multi-generational crowd of music, design and cinema enthusiasts, Utopia said, with multiple sold-out shows and in-person appearances by Corbijn along with Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey “Po” Powell. Head of marketing and distribution Kyle Greenberg said the doc drew drom the distributor’s traditional Gen Z fans, along with older demos “that grew up with that music and those albums.”

“Kids are discovering new music all the time.

The previously announced Syd Barrett documentary Have You Got It Yet?, about the Pink Floyd founder-turned-recluse-turned-mythic cult icon, has shared its first trailer ahead of its U.S. release this summer.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd features new interviews with the band’s surviving members — Roger Waters (Barrett’s classmate and Pink Floyd’s co-founder), Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — to provide insight into The Piper at the Gates of Dawn mastermind’s meteoric rise, acid-fueled breakdown and eventual exile from the band.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has long served as an intermediary between singer-guitarist David Gilmour and singer-bassist Roger Waters, and despite years of drama, he’s still “tempted” to reunite the band properly and get Waters back in the mix.

Gilmour recently called Waters a “misogynistic, antisemitic Putin apologist,” while Waters has taken to re-recording Pink Floyd’s legendary album The Dark Side of the Moon without the rest of the band. Still, in a recent interview, Mason didn’t rule out a reunion. “You never know what will be thrown up,” he said. “I’m tempted to say I’m available for anything.”

Mason wasn’t bothered by Waters’ rewriting of The Dark Side of the Moon, admitting that the recording was “annoyingly brilliant.”

“[Waters] actually sent me a copy of what he was working on and I write to him and said, ‘Annoyingly, it’s absolutely brilliant!,’” Mason recalled.

Pink Floyd are marking the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon — one of the greatest albums of all time — with an expansive new box set out today, March 24th.

The package includes a newly remastered version of the seminal album on CD and vinyl, as well as Blu-Ray + DVD audio featuring the original 5.1 mix and remastered stereo versions. Also included is a recording of The Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974 on CD, vinyl, and Blu-Ray, plus a hardcover book featuring rare and previously unseen photographs of the band from 1972-1975. Pre-orders for the box set are now ongoing.

Both The Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley Empire Pool and the hardcover book are also receiving standalone releases on March 24th.

To further celebrate the milestone anniversary, a special playback of The Dark Side of the Moon will be shown...

Joe Satriani is best known as the guitar virtuoso who plumbs the outer regions of space for music which needs no words. His instrumental progression has only yielded a few songs with lyrics, but they tell stories. Satriani’s most recentrecord, The Elephants of Mars, is basically a travelog, which includes a dip in the waters beneath Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. But many Den of Geek readers might remember him as the talent behind a towering ‘90s instrumental record which featured a surprising visual connection to the Marvel Universe.

Satriani’s 1987 album Surfing with the Alien has nothing to do with surf music, a musical genre which produced quite a few brilliant guitarists, or even the Marvel character Silver Surfer. Released on October 15, 1987, Satriani’s second album featured the famed Marvel hero on the front cover and the hand of Galactus on the back, as illustrated by John Byrne.

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Rihanna and Jay-Z sent flowers to the ladies of an assisted living facility in Kentucky after they recreated the Super Bowl halftime performance on TikTok.

The residents of Arcadia Senior Living Bowling Green posted a viral video on TikTok last month where they’re dancing along to Rihanna’s “Rude Boy.”

The video has collected over 30m views.

Last week, the facility’s Facebook profile shared photos of red roses that Jay-Z sent to them.

“We love the TikTok here at Roc Nation!” read a note by Jay-Z included with the bouquet of 100 red roses and referring to the entertainment agency founded by the rapper.

According to reports, Rihanna also sent a bouquet of flowers to residents of Arcadia to congratulate them for their massively viral video.

The delivery came with a note that called the dance “amazing”, according to Buzzfeed.

“We were just in shock,” Paige Oakes, the center’s director of community relations,...

With Pink Floyd unlikely to reunite ever again, Gov’t Mule will fill the void this summer by embarking on “The Dark Side of the Mule Tour.”

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Gov’t Mule will perform Pink Floyd covers on a newly announced amphitheater tour. Each show will also feature a separate set of Gov’t Mule originals, as well as special guest opener Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening.

According to frontman Warren Haynes, the upcoming tour will mark the final “Dark Side of the Mule” performances. “This all started so organically with what we thought would be a one-time Halloween performance [in 2018]. Since then, ‘Dark Side of the Mule’ has grown into something else. It’s a blast to perform this material but our intent is to do it for one final tour in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dark Side.

“The Sales Girl” is the new effort from Mongolian director Janchivdorj Sengedorj, who has established himself as one of the most interesting talents of Mongolian film industry. Sengedorj has a magic touch with young people and not only in directing them but also in seeing through their eyes and telling their stories. In the urban setting of “The Sales Girl” too, there is a young woman learning to fly.

“The Sales Girl” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema

It all starts from a banana, coincidentally the more phallic fruit of all. When student Namuuna slips on a banana skin and breaks her leg, she is forced to find a temporary replacement for her afternoon job that requires a great deal of discretion. And who better than shy and loner fellow student Saruul (Bayartsetseg Bayangerel) can guarantee secrecy? It doesn’t take long to convince Saruul that...

Lizzo hugged an emotional fan during her show in Milan as part of her tour.

The musician performed in the Italian city on Thursday night (2 March) when she spotted a fan holding up a sign saying “can I have a hug”.

The 34-year-old singer had been performing her song “Special” and wanted to pick someone in the crowd who needed to “hear that message”.

The song’s lyrics are centred around self love, with Lizzo saying in the chorus: “In case nobody told you today/ You’re special / In case nobody made you believe / You’re special / Well, I will always love you the same / You’re special”

Lizzo shared the video of the moment to her Instagram, and it shows her laying down on the stage to embrace the crying fan.

The video shows Lizzo coming to greet the fan and asking their name. “You really need a hug?...

Abba Voyage show will soon travel “around the world”, organisers have reportedly said.

The virtual concert, which sees hologram- style “Abba-tars” of the pop band performing a full setlist in a purpose-built arena, has seen enormous demand.

The unique concert, which opened last May, has sold over a million tickets.

Following its success, Universal Music Group has reportedly said that the show will soon go on tour around the world.

“Plans are now in development to take ‘Abba Voyage’ around the world,” said Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge while on a company earnings call, reported Variety.

A representative for Abba Voyage declined to comment, but a source close to the project said that the focus was on London for the forseeable.

Abba, who formed in Sweden in 1972, are famous for multiple hits including “Dancing Queen”, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) and “Mamma Mia”.

The group is made up of Agnetha Fältskog,...

Roger Waters has shared the first snippet of his remastered version of Pink Floyd’s legendary album The Dark Side Of The Moon.

The Pink Floyd musician announced the news in February that he would be releasing a new version of the record by himself.

According to a new interview at the time, Waters went ahead without telling his former bandmates, including David Gilmour, and has not sought their permission.

Discussing the re-record in February, the 79-year-old told The Telegraph: “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap. Of course we were a band – there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it, so, blah.”

Waters has now shared the first clip of the rework via a YouTube video on Wednesday (1 March).

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Glastonbury’s Emily Eavis has revealed that the John Peel Stage has been renamed after almost 20 years.

The news arrives at the same time as the remaining headliners for the 2023 festival were announced, with Guns N’ Roses and Arctic Monkeys joining Elton John on the billing.

Eavis discussed the “pipeline” problems related to the all-male headliners, as well as an overarching 53 per cent male lineup so far.

In an interview with The Guardian, Eavis also disclosed that the John Peel Stage, which replaced the previous named New Bands Tent in 2005, will now be called Woodsies.

Eavis said the decision was part of a push to name stages after the fields they stand in, such as West Holts and Silver Hayes.

“We’ve had 20 years of John Peel and it’s been an honour to use his name,” she said.

Last year, a petition was launched to rename the stage after...

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March 1 marked 50 years since Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon was released, and there are a numbers of ways that the band is marking the anniversary.

One of them, is the release of a 2Cd/2Lp/2-Blu-ray The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary deluxe box set, which is already selling out online.

The band is also releasing a special hardcover book to commemorate the occasion,...

Director Alfonso Cuarón has spoken out about his dislike of dubbing non-English language films rather than using subtitles.

The Roma director is the producer on Le Pupille, an Italian children’s film that has been nominated for Best Live Action Short at this year’s Academy Awards.

On Disney Plus, the film automatically plays with an English-language dub. In a new interview, Cuarón admitted that he isn’t a fan of the method of translation, having made sure Roma was never officially dubbed.

“If that’s going to help for films to be seen around the world, Ok, but I find very, very far from ideal,” he told IndieWire.

“Look, if you’re an adult, reading subtitles are not going to hurt you, unless you need to move your lips when you’re reading and will end up very tired at the end of the movie.”

The director added: “Maybe...

Jeremy Clarkson has denied being “sacked” by ITV as the presenter of its flagship quiz show, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?.

On Wednesday (1 March), ITV boss Carolyn McCall confirmed that the show’s forthcoming season, which is currently in production, will be Clarkson’s last.

The news came after Clarkson’s recent controversy surrounding a column he wrote about Meghan Markle. The former Top Gear host wrote that he hated the Duchess of Sussex on a “cellular level” in his piece for The Sun.

However, on Wednesday evening, Clarkson denied that he had been “sacked” from the show.

“So many kind messages about today’s reports,” he tweeted. “But relax. [Partner] Lisa and I have not split up and I have not been sacked as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.”

In her interview with Variety, McCall did not say that Clarkson had been sacked, but that the...

The first reviews are in forDaisy Jones & the Six – and it seems like Prime Video’s long-awaited TV series might not have hit all the right notes.

Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular novel, the show follows a fictional rock band from the Seventies on their rise to fame. Riley Keough plays singer Daisy, while Sam Claflin is the band’s founder Billy Dunne.

While fans of Jenkins’ book have begged for an adaptation since it was released, early reviews for the series – which arrives on Prime Video on Friday (3 March) – have been less than glowing.

Vulture’s Roxana Hadadi compared Daisy Jones & the Six to “buying a Fleetwood Mac T-shirt from Urban Outfitters”, writing: “There’s an unignorable smallness throughout, a sense that, as with that Fleetwood Mac T-shirt, we’re settling for a copy of a copy.”

In a three-star review for The Daily Telegraph, Jasper Rees...

Hoda Kotb’s absence from the Today show has finally been explained by her co-host.

Kotb hasn’t made a live appearance on the series since 17 February. She was last seen on the series on 20 February in a pre-recorded segment.

Her absence has caused confusion, with many viewers asking where the anchor is in concerned social media messages.

Today star Craig Melvin addressed the queries while discussing another of his co-hosts, Savanna Guthrie, who was sent home on Tuesday (28 February) after falling ill on air.

“She is at home after a positive Covid test yesterday,” Melvin told viewers, adding; “We are wishing our friend a speedy recovery.”

Melvin then steered his statement towards Kotb, telling the audience: “As for Hoda – we know a lot of you have been wondering how she is doing. We can tell you that Hoda is Ok. She has got a family health matter that she has been dealing with.

A new Nick Drake album has been announced, featuring various artist interpretations of his classic songs.

The late artist, who is best known for songs such as “Pink Moon”, “Place To Be” and “Northern Sky”, died in 1974, aged 26.

Now, a new album entitled The Endless Coloured Ways, Songs By Nick Drake will be released, compiling new interpretations of some of his best-known songs.

Irish band Fontaines DC lead the releases, sharing their raucous version of “Cello Song” on Steve Lemacq’s 6 Music show today (Wednesday 1 March).

Other artists including Self Esteem, Feist and John Grant will be included on the new album, due for release on 7 July.

The record, an idea from Nick Drake’s Estate Manager, Cally Callomon and Jeremy Lascelle of Blue Raincoat Music and Chrysalis Records, will also include covers from David Gray, Aurora, Bombay Bicycle Club and Emeli Sandé.

“Nick Drake was not that concerned with...

Hoda Kotb’s absence from the Today show has finally been explained by her co-host.

Kotb hasn’t made a live appearance on the series since 17 February. She was last seen on the series on 20 February in a pre-recorded segment.

Her absence has caused confusion, with many viewers asking where the anchor is in concerned social media messages.

Today co-host Craig Melvin addressed the queries while discussing another of his co-hosts, Savanna Guthrie, who was sent home on Tuesday (28 February) after falling ill on air.

“She is at home after a positive Covid test yesterday,” Melvin told viewers, adding; “We are wishing our friend a speedy recovery.”

Melvin then steered his statement towards Kotb, telling the audience: “As for Hoda – we know a lot of you have been wondering how she is doing. We can tell you that Hoda is Ok. She has got a family health matter that she has been dealing with.

On 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting grandiose yet chintzy pantomimes of Arthurian legend, sci-fi fantasy and messianic pinball, the Floyd delved into the dark universe of humanity’s inner space; into the stresses and horrors of everyday life that daily push us all to the brink. A record as relatable as it was cosmic, as melodic on the topics of “Time” and “Money” as it was climactic on the themes of war, division and madness, The Dark Side of the Moon set a new standard for high-concept intellectual rock. Forty-five million prism-clad units later, it remains the fourth best-selling record ever made.

Fifty years on, we seem...

German concert venues have faced calls to cancel events with Roger Waters amid claims of antisemitism.

Last week, Frankfurt city council called off a performance by the Pink Floyd artist scheduled for 28 May, alleging that Waters was “considered one of the most far-reaching antisemites in the world”.

A number of politicians and Jewish organisations have also criticised Waters for his statements about Israel. In 2013, the artist compared the Israeli government’s “oppression” of the Palestinian people with the actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Waters’ This is Not a Drill tour includes five scheduled concerts in Germany this May.

In Frankfurt, Waters had been booked to perform at Festhalle, on the site of a former Jewish detention camp during World War II.

The council noted that the site’s history, as a location where 3,000 Jewish men were detained before being sent to concentration camps in 1938, had made the prospect...