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Some neighbors are opposing planned renovations to a home in Stanhope Gardens, London, where members of Pink Floyd lived in the band’s early days in the 1960s.

Shivan Iswaran, a Singaporean developer from Kensington bought the dwelling, as well as the one next to it, for £1.2 million each, site unseen, last September.

Developers have submitted to Haringey Council a proposal to build a two-story extension at the rear of the properties.

The council has yet to make a decision on that work, but preliminary changes to the properties have upset neighbors who say the changes will render the buildings “completely out of keeping” with the rest of the street. They’ve submitted 30 letters of opposition to the plans.

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

The 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.

Leonard died last year, which prompted the sale.

Pink Floyd Music Publishers, the band’s music publishing branch since 1970’s “Atom Heart Mother,” has partnered with Imagem Music U.K.

Imagem Music will administer the songs of Floyd’s David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright within the Floyd catalog. Roger Waters‘s work will remain with Warner/Chappell.

The agreement, which took effect July 1, also includes the solo output of Gilmour, Mason and Wright.

The band said in a statement, “We wanted all the flexibility we have now combined with creativity, enthusiasm and the ability to punch its weight for us in the digital world.

“We met and liked the team and we all feel that we are going to get the sort of personal service we need. We are very much looking forward to it.”

Pink Floyd is big business. The band has sold 250 million records worldwide.

Imagem was founded in 2008 by Group CEO André de Raaff. It has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam.

We spent some time this morning adding a new feature to floydianslip.com: You can now rate all the albums that appear in our site’s discography.

Start at our listing of all Pink Floyd and solo albums. Click through to each album’s details and then click the stars to rank the album.

The site keeps a running tally of total votes and average rating for each of the 59 titles listed in the discography.

You’ve got a blank slate to work with. Get started now!

The United States Library of Congress has included Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon” as one of 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry for 2012.

The registry is a federally-funded archive that preserves songs and sounds that’re “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”

Here’s the complete list of additions for 2012:

1. After You’ve Gone Marion Harris (1918)
2. Bacon, Beans and Limousines Will Rogers (Oct. 18, 1931)
3. Begin the Beguine Artie Shaw (1938)
4. You Are My Sunshine Jimmie Davis (1940)
5. D-Day Radio Broadcast George Hicks (June 5-6, 1944)
6. Just Because Frank Yankovic & His Yanks (1947)
7. South Pacific Original Cast Album (1949)
8. Descargas: Cuban Jam Session in Miniature Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente (1957)
9. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Van Cliburn (April 11, 1958)
10. President’s Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dec. 19, 1958)
11. A Program of Song Leontyne Price (1959)
12. The Shape of Jazz to Come Ornette Coleman (1959)
13. Crossing Chilly Jordan The Blackwood Brothers (1960)
14. The Twist Chubby Checker (1960)
15. Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley’s Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, et al. (1960-1962)
16. Hoodoo Man Blues Junior Wells (1965)
17. Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel (1966)
18. Cheap Thrills Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968)
19. The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd (1973)
20. Music Time in Africa Leo Sarkisian, host (July 29, 1973)
21. Wild Tchoupitoulas The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)
22. Ramones Ramones (1976)
23. Saturday Night Fever The Bee Gees, et al (1977)
24. Einstein on the Beach Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (1979)
25. The Audience with Betty Carter Betty Carter (1980)

Congratulations to Chris Clements of Media, Pa. — the winner in our first of a series of listener survey random drawings.

Chris wins the official “Floydian Slip” flash drive.

We’ll be drawing seven more flash drive winners, as well as a couple of grand prizes over the next couple months consisting of Pink Floyd books, CDs, or DVDs.

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The London home where the founding members of Pink Floyd lived while the band took shape has sold for £1.2 million.

The buyer was Shivan Iswaran a Singaporean developer from Kensington, west London, who bought the Stanhope Gardens dwelling, as well as the one next to it, for £1.2 million each.

Iswaran, who says she’s not a Floyd fan, plans to decide what to do with the structure once she sees it. That’s right: She made the purchase site unseen.

As for the random musical instrument or oddity banging around the house for the past 40 years, Iswaran says she might put some of them up for bid on eBay.

Caveat emptor: Drummer Nick Mason recently posted to Facebook, “The instruments and bits of equipment … however were all (owner Mike Leonard’s), and are not, as far as I’m aware connected directly with the Pink Floyd in any way.”

Read more about the property (“Early Pink Floyd dwelling for sale”).

The London home where the founding members of Pink Floyd lived while the band took shape is up sale for the first time in decades.

The three-story property in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate, in northern London, is expected to fetch £1.2 million at a Sept. 20 auction.

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.

The 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.

Leonard died earlier this year.

The structure is sorely in need of renovations. It still features Leonard’s workshop as well as a number of other remnants of the Floyd’s time spent there: drums and a homemade xylophone remain in the home along with stage lights and a Binson Echorec 2 echo unit.

We recently did an interview with Ed Reyes-Lopez for the Pink Floyd news resource site Brain Damage.

The Q&A was published yesterday. Read the interview here.