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October 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii

David Gilmour Live At Pompeii Sony Music Canada Inc. It’s no substitute for the real thing – Pink Floyd – but the more I’ve listened to this I’ve found a way in. That’s just me being a die-hard Floyd fan, or at least a Floyd fan of a type. I wasn’t at all impressed on […]

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June 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Columbia Over a quarter century after his last studio solo album, Roger Waters returns and fittingly – since we’d already amused ourselves to death he’s now concerned with whether this is the life we really want. As if he warned us back then and we didn’t […]

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January 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Waters The Wall: DVD

Roger Waters The Wall Directors: Roger Waters & Sean Evans Rue 21 Productions/Universal Pictures I was barely joking when I wrote that I’d never be able to listen to The Wall by Pink Floyd, my first – obvious/logical – choice in an ongoing list of “Classic Albums” I never want to hear again. But that […]

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February 24, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1607

Pink Floyd, Relics (1971) One of the first Pink Floyd tapes I bought – so it was a bit of a head-fuck at first; lined up next to The Wall and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. But shortly after – I persisted with Relics – I bought Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. And it […]