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...With interest from a wide group of investors and music companies including Blackstone, Sony Music and Warner Music, Pink Floyd was expected to fetch more than $500mn, making it one of the biggest music rights...
...A Pink Floyd deal would burnish Blackstone’s credentials as a main player in the music rights business....
...Among the inspirations is Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, a “whoa” moment for the rapper when he first heard it. Another is Tame Impala....
...Bloomberg last week reported that Pink Floyd was looking to sell its catalogue. ...
...The Bertelsmann-owned company has set a budget of €450mn to buy catalogues in 2022 in addition to its potential $500mn acquisition of British rock band Pink Floyd’s back catalogue, according to people familiar...
...“All in all, it was just a brick in the wall” — the chorus of Pink Floyd’s classic song emerged from speakers in a neuroscience lab at the University of California, Berkeley, the rhythms and words sounding...
...Sony Music is developing new collaborations between artists using AI, recently working with electronic music group The Orb and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour to allow fans to use AI to remix music....
...Half-centennial celebrations of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece have been engulfed by the controversies generated by the band’s former leader on his recent world tour....
...The music was taken from their 2010 collaboration with the Pink Floyd man, Metallic Spheres, a rejigged version of which was released last year....
...But it was surely more than just audio quality that persuaded someone to find $1.8mn for the Pink Floyd desk, and is likely to do something similar for the Abbey Road machine....
...or the banished Pink Floyd luminary Syd Barrett?) feels like a hackneyed distraction....
...It opens with a charmingly whimsical guitar riff reminiscent of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. The song is called “Tiny Galaxies”, one of several tracks with cosmic associations....
...It was the first Pink Floyd album on which Waters acted as sole lyricist....
...the ex-Pink Floyd man roared, to cheers and applause from his followers. This was the 81st date in the tour....
...Rather than trying to find logic to it — who are these cheerleaders in pink tutus? Why does the giant wedding cake make a return appearance?...
...Instead, the self-described “mad music fan” — who cites The Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Pink Floyd as all-time favourites — prefers to spend time one-on-one with artists....
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Both are prog-rock grandees linked to famous bands, Genesis and Pink Floyd respectively. Both put on visually spectacular shows with expansive messages about the state of the world....
...Slap on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, forget about that clever-clever 7/4 time signature and heed the knowing words instead: “Money, it’s a crime....
...The ex-Pink Floyd leader is rock’s most prominent, and controversial, pro-Palestine activist....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Sonja Hutson Before we go, Pink Floyd has struck a chord with neuroscientists....
...Its iconic Stratocaster has been a favourite of rock guitarists ranging from the late Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck to Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour....
...Other famous acts, such as Pink Floyd, have explored selling their rights or turning their catalogues into asset-backed securities....
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