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Pink Floyd

July 2024

  • A van carrying Royal Mail postal deliveries in Bury, Greater Manchester, with ‘local, national, global’ written on the side.

    Brief letters
    How to get the postal service back on track

    Brief letters: Royal Mail by rail | Tapestries for our time | Golf courses | Early-rising Guardian readers | Picking the right Pink Floyd

January 2024

  • Older white man, short and wiry, wearing black T-shirt and jeans, raises both arms apparently toward crowd, one holding a microphone.

    Roger Waters dropped by BMG over Israel comments

    Germany-based music rights company ends publishing agreement with Pink Floyd co-founder over divisive rhetoric

September 2023

  • Roger Waters performing at Ovo Hydro Glasgow in June.

    Roger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary

  • Prince Stanislas Stash Klossowski De Rola – AKA Prince Stash – at home in Italy.

    Acid with Pink Floyd and harems with Paul McCartney … the wild life of Stash, the playboy prince

July 2023

  • Syd Barrett in a still used in Have You Got It Yet?

    ‘Nobody really knew what happened’: tracing the life of Syd Barrett

    A new documentary looks back on the highs and lows of the mysterious Pink Floyd co-founder, troubled but too often misunderstood
  • Sheep shot … a still from documentary Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), showing preparations for the album cover image for 10cc’s Look Hear?

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) review – album cover as concept art

    Anton Corbijn directs this enjoyable documentary about the design duo who created extraordinary images for Pink Floyd, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and more
  • Aubrey Powell, Peter Christopherson and Storm Thorgerson

    ‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever

    Control director Anton Corbijn’s new film tells the chaotic, tragic story of the creative duo behind some of the most recognisable covers of all time

June 2023

  • Roger Waters performing in Birmingham.

    Roger Waters review – embattled singer vows ‘I will not be cancelled’

    Ex-Pink Floyd singer jettisons imagery that has led to accusations of antisemitism in Germany – and the result makes for a more powerful show

May 2023

  • Roger Waters

    Berlin police investigate Roger Waters over Nazi-style uniform at concert

  • Composite: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and Daft Punk Random Access Memories

    Prog, angst and cosmic pyramids: why Daft Punk are my generation’s Pink Floyd

    Ben Cardew

April 2023

  • ‘Entirely lovely’ … Bob Marley shot by Jill Furmanovsky in London, 1978.

    ‘I had a reckless feeling of destiny’: photographer Jill Furmanovsky on Blondie, Bob Marley and rock’s boys’ club

  • ‘April Fool’ written on a car windscreen after a frosty night on 1 April.

    Brief letters
    Were the Guardian’s readers April fooled?

March 2023

  • Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, 1983.

    From the Guardian archive
    Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut: ‘an awkward album’ – archive, 1983

    17 March 1983: The follow-up to The Wall is a mini-epic written by Roger Waters, subtitled ‘a requiem for the post war dream’
  • Roger Waters performing in September 2022.

    Roger Waters threatens legal action over German concert cancellations

    Waters was accused of being ‘a widely known antisemite’ in Frankfurt council instruction to cancel concert, with other German cities also proposing cancellations
  • Roger Waters performing in Florida, August 2022.

    Roger Waters reveals first music from re-recorded solo Dark Side of the Moon

    Controversial former bandleader says he wanted to ‘re-address the political and emotional message’ of album that turns 50 years old this week

February 2023

  • Ukraine rebukes Roger Waters' ceasefire call as 'brick in the wall of Russian propaganda' – video

    Speaking upon the invitation of the Russian ambassador to the council, founder Roger Waters called on world leaders to 'change course'

  • Roger Waters Addresses UN Security Council Meeting on Russia Ukraine Conflict<br>epa10455484 British musician Roger Waters with his dog on a video screen after delivering a speech via video to a United Nations Security Council meeting called by Russia about weapons given to Ukraine at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 08 February 2023. Waters was invited to address the meeting by Russia, who called the meeting to address the influx of weapons to the Ukrainian military effort by Western allies. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Ukraine denounces Roger Waters as ‘another brick in the wall’ of Moscow propaganda

    Kyiv outraged as Pink Floyd star accepts Russian invitation to speak at UN security council and calls for immediate ceasefire
  • Polly Samson and Roger Waters.

    Pink Floyd lyricist calls Roger Waters an antisemite and ‘Putin apologist’

    Waters has replied that he ‘refutes entirely’ the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ made by Polly Samson, lyricist and wife of guitarist Dave Gilmour

January 2023

  • If These Walls Could Sing Disney + Sir Paul McCartney, in Studio 2 Abbey Road. (credit: Mary McCartney)

    If These Walls Could Sing review – mystery tour of Abbey Road Studios

  • John Harris

    The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?

    John Harris
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