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“Floydian Slip” is the subject of this week’s “Ten Questions” at broadcasting trade website AllAccess.com.

We answer 10 questions about our show, Pink Floyd, and the state of rock radio thrown at us by the site’s Rock Editor Ken Anthony.

Read “Ten Questions” online now.

AllAccess.com is owned and operated by All Access Music Group Inc. It was formed to keep the radio and music industries informed and up to date.

Stone carver Pippa Westoby (pictured) has started a petition to honor Pink Floyd with a plaque to be placed in Cambridge, England.

The band’s Syd Barrett, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have connections to the town, seen by some as the band’s true home.

The petition has 1,431 signatures; the goal is 2,000. Once complete, Westoby will present it to the Cambridge City Council.

“If we get approval, we will then be fundraising,” she told Cambridge News. “Any money raised (above the cost of getting the plaque carved) will be split equally between a few Cambridge-based charities for music, drugs and mental health.”

Sign the petition.

Today we made live a new floydianslip.com.

Rebuilt from the ground up, the new site features a “responsive” design to optimize user experience based on device — desktop, tablet or mobile phone.

This is the site’s 6th major design since we established floydianslip.com in 1996. You can browse screenshots of past designs in the “Floydian Slip Bizarre Collection of Antiques and Curios.”

West Coast Shaving has taken the faces of each member of Pink Floyd and created a photographic “average” of them (right).

The result, in our opinion, looks most similar to guitarist David Gilmour.

We reached out to the company to see if all five members (Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright) are included in the Floyd photo, but didn’t hear back.

The firm actually gave this treatment to 30 rocks bands, which makes for interesting conversion, not the least of which would be the question, “Why would a men’s grooming company do this?” Perhaps it thinks they all need a good shave.

Nonetheless, never say no to fun. All photos are below.

Garden Cottage (pictured), the house said to appear on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” (1981), has sold at auction for £215,000.

But, contrary to prior reports, the structure in Dungeness, Romney Marsh, is not the house from the album cover.

The Folkestone Herald reports Trevor Bunney of Dungeness says,”This cottage is not the cottage on the album, which is actually called Seagull Cottage. It’s situated further north just off of the Dungeness estate in between The Pilot public house and Kerton Road bridge.

Seagull Cottage is no longer in existence as it was destroyed by fire in the early 1980s. If you look to the right on the album cover you can just make out the houses over Kerton Road bridge, I know this for a fact as a kid I played in Seagull Cottage when it was derelict.”

The property was expected to go for £160,000.

The cottage seen on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” is up for sale.

Garden Cottage, in Dungeness, Romney Marsh, is going on the auction block March 23. It was built in the mid-19th century, is part of the private Dungeness Estate, and has an estimated value of £165-170,000.

In addition to gracing the cover of Floyd’s 1981 compilation album, it’s believed to been seen in TV shows such as “Jayne Eyre” and the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers are handling the auction.

Addendum: The property has sold, but is now believed to not be the structure that appeared on the album cover (“Alleged ‘Great Dance Songs’ house sold, but misidentified”).

Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) climbed to the #13 position on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The album sold just more than 38,000 “album equivalent units” last week, resulting in its best chart showing since Oct. 15, 2011, when it re-entered the Top 20 at #12 thanks to a new re-issue.

“Dark Side” has spent 889 weeks on the chart, the most-charted weeks for any album in the history of the Billboard 200.

Billboard speculates the album’s jump this week was due to a price discount on “Dark Side” offered by the Google Play store the week ending Dec. 7.

The calculations that determine the Billboard 200 have become more complex recently. The chart now measures “multi-metric album consumption,” which includes “pure album sales.” The ranking combines on-demand streaming and digital sales in addition to traditional album sales, all measured by Nielsen Music.

Pink Floyd‘s new album “The Endless River,” released Nov. 10, has debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at #3.

The album was bested only by Foo Fighters‘ debut of “Sonic Highway” at #2, and Taylor Swift‘s third week at #1 for her album “1989.”

If “The Endless River” climbs to #1, it’ll be Floyd’s fifth #1 album, following “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973), “Wish You Were Here” (1975), “The Wall” (1979) and “The Division Bell” (1994).

“The Endless River” debuted on the U.K. charts at the #1 position last week.

Billboard has created an infographic showing Floyd’s chart activity over the years. The band’s only studio album that failed to chart on Billboard was “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968).

View the infographic.

Pink Floyd has released a second short video to promote its upcoming album “The Endless River,” due out Nov. 10.