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“Creation: The Early Years of Pink Floyd,” a one-hour syndicated radio special, is coming in November.

The program will feature a new interview with Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nick Mason, as well as tracks from the upcoming box set “The Early Years.”

Craig Bailey of “Floydian Slip” will host the show.

The program will likely begin airing in mid-November and continue into December. A list of participating stations hasn’t been finalized.

The program will be made freely available to stations wishing to air it. Stations can register online to carry the show.

The program’s produced by Joyride Media of New York. Past programs from the company include shows devoted to Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley and The Birds.

Bailey also hosted Joyride’s “Roger Waters: Amused to Death” radio special last summer.

Joyride Media shows are heard on more than 300 stations nationwide.

Dame Vera Lynn (pictured in 1962) was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Lynn, 99, received the honor at her home in Ditchling. She was unable to travel to Buckingham Palace.

Lynn was in her 20s when she helped boost the spirit of the British during World War II with hits such as “We’ll Meet Again.”

Roger Waters name-checked her on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album “The Wall” in the song “Vera,” singing, “Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?”

“In accepting this award, I do so in remembrance of all our wonderful brave boys who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, and also in honor of all the children affected by cerebral palsy,” Lynn said.

Pink Floyd’s 1969 album “Ummagumma” finds itself in an unusual place: a list of Top 10 New Insect Species for 2016.

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry has put the Sparklewing damselfly on its list at #10.

As a species of the genus “Umma,” it was easy enough for Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra to give it the species name of “gumma,” honoring a friend’s request from 16 years ago: “If you ever discover a new species of the genus Umma,” the companion suggested, “call it Ummagumma like the Pink Floyd album!”

The 2-inch-long Ummagumma is widespread on Central African rainforest streams, and, we assume, can also be found gathered together in caves grooving with picts.

The original site of Pink Floyd’s Britannia Row studio in the Canonbury district of Islington, London, will become luxury housing.

The Islington Council Planning Committee approved the proposal last night with the condition that a certain portion of the 25,000-square-foot property remain as office and studio space.

Floyd built the studio in the mid-’70s and recorded the ’77 “Animals” album there, as well as parts of “The Wall” (1979). Students at the nearby Islington Green School provided the children’s chorus on “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.”

Britannia Row studio eventually became the property of Floyd drummer Nick Mason, who sold it in the mid-’90s before it was eventually relocated to its current address in Fulham, London.

Just when you thought the current never-ending presidential campaign couldn’t possibly intersect with the legacy of your favorite rock band, candidate John Kasich has managed to wed the two.

Republication presidential hopeful and Ohio governor Kasich replied to a question posed by a CNN reporter about his favorite concert experience by praising Pink Floyd and “The Wall.”

“I don’t even have to think twice. It was the best,” he says of the Roger Waters’ show he saw in Pittsburgh. “If I’m president, I am going to once and for all try to reunite Pink Floyd to come together and play a couple songs,” he adds.

We think a Constitutional amendment might be easier.

The Chateau d’Herouville, the shuttered French recording studio where Pink Floyd and many other iconic bands recorded, is set to reopen.

Dubbed the “Honky Chateau” by Elton John, who recorded three albums there, the facility had been abandoned until recently purchased by four partners who plan to reopen it for sound recording and more.

Floyd recorded its soundtrack to the 1972 film “La Vallee” there. The album’s called “Obscured by Clouds.”

During its heyday of the ’70s, the French mansion an hour outside Paris offered bands such as David Bowie, T Rex, Cat Stevens and others, a place to not only record music, but to live — sometimes to excess — under the management of owner Michel Magne.

Magne took his life in 1984 as debts on the facility piled up.

New co-owner Stephan Marchi told Classic Rock magazine, “Ultimately we want to expand from sound recording to other mediums — writing, sculpting, painting.

“In everything, we are inspired by the idea of recreating the state of mind that prevailed here in the early 70s.”

Worcester Crown Court today dropped the remaining charges pending against singer-songwriter Roy Harper.

Harper, 74, best known to Pink Floyd fans as guest vocalist on the band’s “Have a Cigar,” had been acquitted by a jury of two sex crime charges earlier this year. The five remaining charges were dropped today.

“This case should never have gone as far as this, or taken so long to resolve,” Harper told the Guardian. “The psychological and personal cost to my wife and myself has been enormous and the financial cost hugely unfair. I lost my livelihood and I spent my savings, and more, on my defense.”

“Despite coming out of this without a blemish on my name, I cannot recoup my costs and that’s left me incredibly angry.”

The Highgate home in northern London where the founding members of Pink Floyd lived while the band took shape has been renovated and is for sale.

The three-story property was owned by Mike Leonard — the band briefly called itself Leonard’s Lodgers — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art who was instrumental in developing the band’s trademark light shows.

Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason moved into the home in September 1963, joined a year later by Syd Barrett. Rick Wright also lived there.

Leonard, who continued to own the property until his death in 2012, had allowed the property to fall into disrepair. It was auctioned shortly after his death.

The newly-renovated home is stunning, and is listed for £3 million.

DailyMail.com has a series of before and after photos.

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