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Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 51 with Steven Wilson

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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 51 and features guest Steve Wilson Ex Porcupine Tree

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

Pink Floyd share ‘Learning to Fly’ from ‘A Momentary Lapse Of Reason’ remix album

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Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (360 Reality Audio / 2019 Remix / Official Music Video)

Pink Floyd will release a ‘Remixed &Updated’ version of their 13th studio album ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ on Friday 29th October 2021.

Originally available as part of Pink Floyd’s December 2019 box set ‘The Later Years’, the album was remixed and updated from the original 1987 master tapes by Andy Jackson and David Gilmour, assisted by Damon Iddins.

Pink Floyd announce remixed and updated A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

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Pink Floyd have announced that they will release a remixed and updated A Momentary Lapse Of Reason through PLG on October 29.

The new version of the band’s 1987 album which saw Gilmour helm the band in the wake of Roger Waters’ departure, it has been remixed and updated from the original 1987 master tapes for The Later Years by Andy Jackson with David Gilmour, assisted by Damon Iddins, the album will be available on Vinyl, CD, DVD, Blu-ray and digitally with Stereo and 5.1 mixes.

In addition, for the first time, the album will be presented in 360 Reality Audio, a new immersive music experience that closely mimics the omni-directional soundscape of live musical performance for the listener using Sony’s object-based 360 Spatial Sound technologies. A Momentary Lapse Of Reasonwill also be released in Dolby Audio and UHD in addition to 360 Reality Audio, all of which will continue with other Pink Floyd releases.

“Some years after we had recorded the album, we came to the conclusion that we should update it to make it more timeless, featuring more of the traditional instruments that we liked and that we were more used to playing,” explains David Gilmour. “This was something we thought it would benefit from. We also looked for and found some previously unused keyboard parts of Rick’s which helped us to come up with a new vibe, a new feeling for the album.”

“Initially it seemed a bit odd to start re-assembling a record after 35 odd years, but the public’s appetite for alternate views of the same work has undoubtedly increased immeasurably over time,” adds Nick Mason. “I enjoyed re-recording drum tracks with unlimited studio time. Momentary Lapsehad been recorded under considerable stress and time constraints, and indeed some of the final mixing was done at the same time as rehearsals for the forthcoming tour. It was also nice to have an opportunity to enhance some of Rick’s work. Again, that positive tidal wave of technology just might have provided too many digital opportunities to overwhelm the band feel. Hopefully, that’s one of the benefits of this remix!”

“Bob Ezrin had worked on The Wall with us back in ’79 and on some solo albums with me,” Gilmour continues. “I learnt a lot from Bob and he’s a valuable person to have on board. We started working on pieces of music that I had been writing and, come Christmas, we knew it was going well. One day, I felt this ‘thing’ coming on me that became Sorrow. I wrote five verses one evening. They just flowed out from nowhere in one of those great serendipitous moments that you recognise later as having been very valuable… I knew that we were on a good roll and that this thing was going to work.”

The new version also features new artwork from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell.

“I was looking to update the iconic five hundred beds picture my partner in Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson, had designed,” he explains. “On looking through the archives I discovered a version where the sea was encroaching on the set, just before Storm shut down the shot worried he would lose all the beds. I also wanted to make something more of the microlight. There were no shots of the plane in close up, so I hunted one down that was similar but white, and had Peter Curzon retouch the fuselage with the right colouring – red –  then strip the microlight into the picture in an upfront position. David Gilmour and Nick Mason gave their approval and, voila, a fresh approach to an original favourite”.

The album will be available as single CD, CD +DVD set, CD + Blu-Ray set, 2x 180gm LP set, the latter cut at half-speed at 45rpm for enhanced sound quality, with pre-orders from 2 September.  A special  version of the video Learning To Fly will be available simultaneously with Sony 360RA immersive audio: if you watch the video on YouTube with headphones you experience simulated 360RA sound.

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 360 Reality Audio, Dolby Audio and UHD versions will be available via multiple Digital Service Providers on 19 October. All physical formats will be available on 29 October.

 

 

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 50 With Gaz Coombes

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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 50 and features guest Gaz Coombes of Supergrass

Available from 29th August 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

New Book : Pink Floyd – The Rob Verhorst Archives

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Rob Verhorst’s career spans well over four decades. David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason have been a common thread in his working years. The gentlemen of Pink Floyd, as a group but later also solo, often appear before the lens of the Rotterdam (pop) photographer. A first encounter in Sportpaleis Ahoy’ in Rotterdam in 1977 makes Verhorst decide to combine his two passions – photography and music – and to make it his profession. His picture of a deflated pig in Ahoy’ also inadvertently reveals a unique way of working. Verhorst not only goes for the big picture, but knows – like no other – how to capture details that only someone with an eye for detail and a strong urge for perfection can capture.

His photos do not remain unnoticed for long and soon start to appear in newspapers such as Rotterdams Dagblad and renowned music magazines like Muziekkrant OOR, Muziek Expres, Hitkrant and Music Maker. In the years that follow his photographs of the 1980 Pink Floyd shows at Earls Court in London to promote The Wall go global. In the 1980s, Verhorst is always there, everywhere. He ends up with David Gilmour in Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Utrecht in 1984 and Roger Waters in Sportpaleis Ahoy’ that same year. He documents Pink Floyd’s comeback in Rotterdam in 1988 and a year later in Werchter and the Goffertpark in Nijmegen. A picture of Pink Floyd in front of a battery of his colleagues during a photo session in Versailles in 1988 is a classic, just like so many others. Rob Verhorst’s photos of Pink Floyd – but also those of dozens if not hundreds other world acts – have become a staple of the renowned Getty Images catalogue.

In 1990 Verhorst photographs The Wall for a second time – this time Roger Waters’ performance in Berlin – and frequently captures the former Pink Floyd bassist in the new millennium, in 2011 in Arnhem for a third time performing The Wall. He is one of the few – and perhaps the only one professionally – who has shot the three tours of the concept album in as many decades. For this book, Rob Verhorst (1952) made a selection of no less than three hundred iconic Pink Floyd photos, many of them previously unpublished. Together with memories and additional visual material from his archives they form an impressive collection and legacy

Pink Floyd : Captured Through Time Soft Cover To Be Released

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Spanning more than half a decade Pink Floyd has rightly earned its place as one of the greatest rock bands of all time. From the early, experimental ando ften whimsical days with band leader Syd Barrett to them ore expansive style with Dave Gilmour onboard, leadingt o the masterpiece Dark Side Of The Moon that elevatedF loyd into the stratosphere. But success came at a price as personal relationshipss uffered, culminating in break-ups as eventually Roger Waters departed. Buts tadiums and huge arenas continued to welcome Floyd through the eighties andn ineties with a brief reunion with Waters for 2005’s Live 8 event. Captured Through Time is a photographic celebration of this truly iconic band thatt akes you on a journey from the psychedelic, avant-garde sixties to the present dayi ncluding off stage shots of all band members during the 2000s including Syd Barrett!

Many of the photos have never been published in print before, including a sequence of shots from the Animals tour in 1977 that have only just been developed from the original negatives and digitally restored for this publication.
In total, over 100 glorious images of Floyd both on and off stage through the
decades are included in this large format book.

You can find a sneak preview of the book along with pre-order information by clicking here

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp : Rockonteurs Podcast Episode 49 with Ian Anderson

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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 49 and features guest Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

Available from 22nd August 2021 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

AFG : A Celebration Of Radio K.A.O.S : Part 3 : Unseen Photos From Arie Crown Theatre Chicago 1987

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Radio K.A.O.S. is the second solo studio album by English rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters. Released on 15 June 1987 in the United Kingdom and June 16 in the United States, it was Waters’ first solo album after his formal split from Pink Floyd in 1985. Like his previous and future studio albums and many works of his during his time with Pink Floyd, the album is a concept album based on many key topical subjects of the late 1980s, including monetarism and its effect on citizens, popular culture of the time, and the events and consequences of the Cold War. It also makes criticisms of Margaret Thatcher’s government, much like Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, another album conceived by Waters.

The album follows Billy, a mentally and physically disabled man from Wales, forced to live with his uncle David in Los Angeles after his brother Benny was sent to prison after an act intended to support striking coal miners results in the death of a taxi driver, following his dismissal from his mining job due to “market forces.” The album explores Billy’s mind and view on the world through an on-air conversation between him and Jim, a disc jockey at a local fictitious radio station named Radio KAOS.

In our six part celebration we will be speaking to members of the recording and touring band, The producer of the album aswell as showcasing never before seen photography from the supporting tour, along with a few surprises thrown in aswell.

Part 1 of our celebration was released on 10th August 2021 features an article entitled “Getting Back To Radio Kaos” which you can read by clicking here

Part 2 of our celebration was released on 15th August 2021 features an interview with recording and tourist guitarist Jay Stapley which you can read by clicking here

In this this instalment we are showcasing never before seen photographs from Roger Waters Radio KAOS tour live on November 14th 1987 at Arie Crown Theatre Chicago, Illinois, USA.

There is currently only 6 photos from this tour published on the world wide web as featured in our tour rooms by clicking here.

Thanks to the appeal we put on in preperation for this celebration we were sent a stunning collection that has not been shared to the public masses before.

Due to the exclusiveness of this collection these ‘protected” images will be available until 20th september 2021 where they will then be available to view in full high definition in our dedicated tour rooms.

Photos by R. Vajagich, prints scanned by W. Taber.