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Roger Waters Releases The Lockdown Sessions Ep
Roger Waters has released 'The Lockdown Sessions' EP.The Pink Floyd legend - who co-founded the legendary prog rock group and was co-lead vocalist from 1968 until 1983 - released a more sombre version of the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 09 December 2022
Jim Carrey And Margaret Atwood Latest To Be Banned From Russia
Jim Carrey and Margaret Atwood are among 100 Canadians now banned from entering Russia.President Vladimir Putin has forbidden a whole host of celebrities from stepping foot on Russian land for siding with Ukraine amid his...
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15 November 2022
Pink Floyd Infighting Delays Catalogue Sale
The sale of Pink Floyd's music catalogue has been delayed due to "months of arguing" within the band.The 'Money' hitmakers were said to have attracted interest from investors and companies including Blackstone, Sony Music...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 09 October 2022
Roger Waters Pens Open Letter To Vladimir Putin Calling For End To 'Heinous War'
Roger Waters has penned an open letter to Russia's Vladimir Putin calling for an end to the "heinous war" in Ukraine.The Pink Floyd co-founder has made his views clear to the president - who ordered...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 27 September 2022
Roger Waters Announces European Tour
Roger Waters has announced new tour dates for 2023.The former Pink Floyd frontman will kick off his European 'This Is Not A Drill' tour in Lisbon on March 17.He will also visit Barcelona, Madrid, Milan...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 September 2022
Pink Floyd Pull Music From Digital Platforms In Russia And Belarus
Pink Floyd have removed their music from streaming services in Russia and Belarus.The 'Comfortably Numb' rockers have announced that all of their songs released since 1987 will be wiped from "all digital music providers" in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 March 2022
Pink Floyd's Artwork For The Wall Was Cooked Up On Roger Waters' Kitchen Table
'The Wall' designer Gerald Scarfe designed the iconic artwork on Roger Waters' kitchen table.The artist - who was "befuddled" when the band asked him to get on board given his work as a political cartoonist...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 23 October 2021
David Gilmour Dashes Hope Of Pink Floyd Reunion
David Gilmour has dashed hopes of a Pink Floyd reunion as he's "done" with playing live.The 'Wish You Were Here' hitmaker insists he "absolutely" doesn't want to go back to the group and play stadiums...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 10 March 2021
Roger Waters Claims David Gilmour Banned Him From Pink Floyd's Website And Socials
Roger Waters has accused David Gilmour of locking him out of Pink Floyd's website and social media pages.The iconic band's co-founder and the guitarist have had an acrimonious relationship since Roger quit the group in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 May 2020
Pink Floyd Announce Youtube Concert Series
Pink Floyd have announced a YouTube concert series.The 'Wish You Were Here' hitmakers are set to screen their concerts every Friday, starting this week (17.04.20), in line with their usual #PinkFloydFriday Twitter series, where they...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 April 2020
Roger Waters Confirmed To Headline Bst Hyde Park 2018
It's barely been three months since the last BST Hyde Park event took place, but the headliner for next year's festival has already been announced as tickets prepare to go on sale this week. Roger...
By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2017
Roger Waters Slams 'Whining' Thom Yorke
Roger Waters has slammed Thom Yorke for ''whining'' about Radiohead's controversial Israel concert.The 48-year-old singer and his band are due to perform in Tel Aviv on Wednesday (19.07.17), and after the planned concert attracted criticism...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 17 July 2017
Roger Waters Slams 'Pig Man' Donald Trump In Tour Rehearsal
Roger Waters made quite the impression with the dress rehearsal for his 'Us + Them' tour this week in New Jersey, celebrating the release of his brand new album ahead of the official tour kick-off...
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 24 May 2017
Roger Waters And Nick Mason Tease Possibility Of Pink Floyd Glastonbury Performance
Two of the remaining three members of prog-rock legends Pink Floyd have raised the tantalising prospect that the group might finally perform at Glastonbury Festival.At a press conference for the V&A Museum’s upcoming Pink Floyd...
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 17 February 2017
Roger Waters Wants To Headline Glastonbury Without Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and Nick Mason are both up for headlining Glastonbury - but not together.The two musicians reunited on Thursday (16.02.17) in London to launch the upcoming 'Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 February 2017
Roger Waters Agrees Divorce Settlement
The rock veteran married Durning in New York City in 2012 after a decade together, but they split earlier this year (15) and Waters filed for divorce in October (15). Waters faced...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 18 December 2015
Roger Waters Facing Gig Protest Over Anti-israel Stance
The veteran rocker is set to play a show at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, but members of a Jewish human rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, are calling for...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 October 2015
Roger Waters Fires Off Angry Letter To Bon Jovi Over Israel Gig
The former Pink Floyd frontman often takes aim at artists prior to scheduled gigs in the Middle East and urges them to boycott the nation as part of an ongoing cultural protest against...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2015
Roger Waters Is No Fan Of Last Pink Floyd Lp
Roger Waters doesn't like Pink Floyd's last album 'The Endless River'.The band's ex-bass player and founder has listened to his former group's 2014 LP but he didn't enjoy the music David Gilmour and Nick Mason...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 September 2015
David Gilmour 'Done' With Pink Floyd
David Gilmour is ''done'' with Pink Floyd.The 69-year-old guitarist has vowed never to reform with his two surviving bandmates Roger Waters and Nick Mason, saying it would be ''fakery'' for the rockers to reform because...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
David Gilmour Rules Out Pink Floyd Reunion
The members of the band - Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason - got back together for the historic Live 8 concerts in 2005 and the group also put out an...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
Dionne Warwick Refused To Bow To Roger Waters' Pressure Over Tel Aviv Gig
Pink Floyd rocker Waters often takes aim at singers scheduled to perform in the country and urges them to boycott it as part of a cultural protest against the unrest between Israelis and...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 July 2015
Explore The Deep Themes Of 1992'S 'Amused To Death' With Roger Waters [Video]
Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters is set to re-release his last solo album, 1992's 'Amused To Death', as a re-mastered and re-mixed edition this summer, and as he gears up to unleash it once again...
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 10 July 2015
Roger Waters: Don't Talk To Me
Roger Waters had a look that said ''f**k off and leave me alone'' when he was young.The 71-year-old Pink Floyd singer - who will release documentary film 'Roger Waters The Wall' later this year -...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 22 June 2015
Roger Waters Told To 'Shoot Himself'
Roger Waters was told to ''shoot himself'' by his school teacher as a child.The Pink Floyd musician revealed his tutor confronted him in class as a youngster and told him he would never do anything...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 June 2015
Alan Parsons Takes Aim At Waters Over Israeli Gig Boycott Plea
Rocker Alan Parsons has attacked Pink Floyd star Roger Waters over his efforts to persuade his old studio engineer to scrap a recent show in Israel.Parsons, who engineered Pink Floyd's iconic album Dark Side of...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 February 2015
Alan Parsons Ignores Waters' Plea To Boycott Israel Gig
Alan Parsons, the rock boffin who engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon album, has ignored pleas from the band's Roger Waters to scrap a show in Israel.Waters, a longtime supporter of the...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 February 2015
Stars Demand Release Of Guantanamo Bay Briton
Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters, pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor and actress Juliet Stevenson are among those who have signed an open letter calling for the release of a British man from the Guantanamo Bay detention...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 15 December 2014
Nick Mason Hints At More Pink Floyd Releases
Nick Mason has hinted there could be more Pink Floyd releases in the future.The band have just released their first album of new songs for 20 years, 'The Endless River', and although the drummer is...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 November 2014
Nick Mason: Waters Will Be 'Charmingly Disapproving' About Album
Nick Mason believes Roger Waters will be ''charmingly disapproving'' about the new Pink Floyd album.The 70-year-old drummer has reconvened with guitarist-and-singer David Gilmour to make group's first new LP for 20 years, 'The Endless River'.Mason...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 07 November 2014
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