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June 2, 2023: NME: Roger Waters: “They’re trying to cancel me like they cancelled Jeremy Corbyn and Julian Assange”
Roger Waters has claimed that his critics are trying to cancel him “like they cancelled Jeremy Corbyn and Julian Assange”. Waters took to the stage at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on Wednesday May 31, where he told a 15,000-person crowd that he was “pissed off” at “the anti-semitism bullshit” surrounding him over the last month. The Pink Floyd member declared: “They’re trying to cancel me like they cancelled Jeremy Corbyn and Julian Assange. I will not be cancelled.” |
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April 7, 2022: The Guardian: ‘This is a crazy, unjust attack’: Pink Floyd re-form to support Ukraine
Exclusive: Disgusted by the Russian invasion, David Gilmour speaks about band’s first brand new song in 28 years, which samples a Ukrainian musician now on the front line – and expresses ‘disappointment’ in Roger Waters March 1, 2018: Rolling Stone: Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
There are hit albums, and then there’s Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd‘s eternally popular song cycle has sold more than 15 million copies in the U.S. since its release on March 1st, 1973, and more than 45 million units worldwide. A true colossus of classic rock, the album made its creators — bassist/vocalist Roger Waters, guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour, keyboardist/vocalist Rick Wright, and drummer Nick Mason — incredibly wealthy, and ultimately spent a mind-boggling 937 weeks on the Billboard 200. 
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September 6, 1943: Bassist Roger Waters was born.
March 6, 1944: guitarist David Gilmour was born in Cambridge.
January 29, 1967: Pink Floyd recorded "Arnold Layne" and "Candy and a Currant Bun."
March 10, 1967: EMI released Pink Floyd's first single, "Arnold Layne", with the B-side "Candy and a Currant Bun" on it's Columbia label.
April 29, 1967: Pink Floyd headlined an all-night event called The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream at the Alexandra Palace, London. Pink Floyd arrived at the festival at around three o'clock in the morning after a long journey by van and ferry from the Netherlands, taking the stage just as the sun was beginning to rise. May 12, 1967: Their second soon to be released single, "See Emily Play" premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. During the performance, the group first used an early quadraphonic device called an Azimuth Co-ordinator. The device enabled the controller, usually Wright, to manipulate the band's amplified sound, combined with recorded tapes, projecting the sounds 270 degrees around a venue, achieving a sonic swirling effect. June 16, 1967: EMI-Columbia released Pink Floyd's second single, "See Emily Play". April 6, 1968: David Gilmour left the band.
"Meddle" 1971
Feb 17, 1972: Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics, as it was then known, was performed for an assembled press at the Rainbow Theatre.
May 31, 1972: The first track, Us and Them, was recorded for their next LP (Dark Side of the Moon). 
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February 9, 1973: Pink Floyd Finished recording music for "The Dark Side of the Moon."
March 1, 1973: "The Dark Side of the Moon" LP is released. March 17, 1973: Pink Floyd did a midnight performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City before an audience of 6,000. April 28, 1973: "The Dark Side of the Moon" reached the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart's number one spot. May 7, 1973: "Money" was released as a single on 7 May, with "Any Colour You Like" on the B-side. February 4, 1974, a double A-side single was released with "Time" on one side, and "Us and Them" on the opposite side.
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July 5, 1975: Most of Wish You Were Here premiered at an open-air music festival at Knebworth.
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November 30, 1979: The Wall LP was released.
Pink Floyd The Wall Concert Tour Program Book
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October 29, 1994: Momentary Lapse of Reason tour ended.
November 2, 1998: Jam-rock band Phish performed a semi-improvised version of the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album as part of their show in West Valley City, Utah.
July 2, 2005: Waters, Gilmour, Mason, and Wright performed together as Pink Floyd at Live 8, a benefit concert raising awareness about poverty, in Hyde Park, London.
May 5, 2006: The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,716 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog charts.
July 7, 2006: Syd Barrett died at his home in Cambridge, aged 60.
July 18, 2006: Syd Barrett's funeral was held at Cambridge Crematorium. No Pink Floyd members attended.
July 7, 2006: Syd Barrett died at his home in Cambridge, aged 60.
July 18, 2006: Syd Barrett's funeral was held at Cambridge Crematorium. No Pink Floyd members attended.
May 10. 2007: Waters, Gilmour, Wright, and Mason performed at the Barrett tribute concert "Madcap's Last Laugh" at the Barbican Centre in London. Gilmour, Wright, and Mason performed the Barrett compositions "Bike" and "Arnold Layne", and Waters performed a solo version of his song "Flickering Flame."
September 15, 2008: Richard Wright died of an undisclosed form of cancer, aged 65
July 10, 2010: Waters and Gilmour performed together at a charity event for the Hoping Foundation. The event, which raised money for Palestinian children, took place at Kidlington Hall in Oxfordshire, England, with an audience of approximately 200.
May 12, 2011: Gilmour performed "Comfortably Numb" at Waters's performance of The Wall at the London O2 Arena, singing the choruses and playing the two guitar solos. Mason also joined, playing tambourine for "Outside the Wall" with Gilmour on mandolin.
September 26, 2011: Pink Floyd and EMI launched an exhaustive re-release campaign under the title Why Pink Floyd...?, reissuing the back catalogue in newly remastered versions, including "Experience" and "Immersion" multi-disc multi-format editions. The albums were remastered by James Guthrie, co-producer of The Wall.
September 26, 2011: Pink Floyd and EMI launched an exhaustive re-release campaign under the title Why Pink Floyd...?, reissuing the back catalogue in newly remastered versions, including "Experience" and "Immersion" multi-disc multi-format editions. The albums were remastered by James Guthrie, co-producer of The Wall.
November 7, 2014: The Endless River was released, the second Pink Floyd album distributed by Parlophone.
April 8, 2022: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" was released, with proceeds going to Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief. Gilmour said the war had inspired him to release new music as Pink Floyd as he felt it was important to raise awareness in support of Ukraine.