Posted on 08/17/2015 12:00:56 PM PDT by maddog55
Pink Floyd officially breaks up after announcing a new album, The Endless River, to be released later this year. Guitarist David Gilmour stated that the legendary band is done for good, according to Death And Taxes.
Pink Floyd had originally split 20 years ago, but continued with some of the few surviving members who was still associated with the group. Breaking up wasn’t quite a new beginning for the band, even though they are releasing a new album from tracked culled from the sessions that produced 1994’s The Division Bell.
Pink Floyd officially breaks up while releasing a new album that is intended as a tribute to keyboardist Rick Wright. In those 20 years, the band has only performed a handful of times–mostly at charity events–and hasn’t written or recorded any new songs since The Division Bell.
“I’ve had 48 years in Pink Floyd – quite a few of those years at the beginning, with Roger [Waters]. And those years in what is now considered to be our heyday were 95% musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter. I certainly don’t want to let the other 5% color my view of what was a long and fantastic time together. But it has run its course, we are done – and it would be fakery to go back and do it again,” Gilmour said.
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Knew they would never last. ;-)
A Dark Day.
Well, they say the breaking up is hard to do...
did we ever find out which one’s pink?
Got to keep the loonies on the path........................
Another brick in the wall.........
As of now, only two of the four longest-term band members are still alive - and they can barely stand to be in the same room together.
I’d say this announcement is a case of “making the obvious official”.
Careful with that axe, Eugene......................
Didn’t this happen 30 years ago?
I blame the antisemite Roger Waters, even though he hasn’t been in the band for 32 years.
Somehow, Waters seems less sane than the late “crazy diamond” Syd Barrett in many ways.
Maybe Roy Harper knows, but he’s not telling.
No Vegas revue coming, I take it?
Say goodbye to another part of our youth. At least, nobody died.
Well, we still have Brit Floyd!
Brit Floyd | The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute Show
I know, don’t you hate those couples that just never give it a good shot. One bump in the road and BAM—they’re done for good.
Nobody died concurrent with the breakup.
“HuHuh! I was in the right!”
“Yes, absolutely in the right!”
“I certainly was in the right!”
“You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
bruising!”
“Yeah!”
“Why does anyone do anything?”
“I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time!”
“I was just telling him, he couldn’t get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn’t coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn’t coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out”
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