Posted October 7, 2024 by Floydian Slip
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Posted October 7, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Posted October 1, 2024 by Floydian Slip
The Financial Times is reporting Pink Floyd has struck a deal to sell its back catalog to Sony for approximately US $400 million.
The deal is said to include rights to the band’s original recordings, as well as its “name and likeness.” The publishing rights of the band’s output is not included.
The band has been searching for a buyer for the last couple years. Potential suitors have been rumoured to include Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, BMG, Hipgnosis, Concord, Primary Wave, and Blackstone, a private equity group.
Royalities for Floyd’s recordings are collected by two UK-based businesses: One for work that included band co-founder Roger Waters, and another for work completed after Waters’s departure in the mid-1980s.
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, the combined revenue of those two entities was approximately US $50 million.
According to the Financial Times, David Gilmour declined to comment on the sale; and Waters was unavailable for comment. But Gilmour recently told Rolling Stone, “To be rid of the decision making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going is my dream. … I’m only interested in it from getting out of the mud bath that it has been for quite a while.”
Posted October 1, 2024 by Floydian Slip
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Posted September 30, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Register now to win a copy of David Gilmour‘s new album “Luck and Strange” on LP. Gatefold sleeve and booklet included.
Recorded over five months in Brighton and London, this is Gilmour’s first album of new material in nine years. The record was produced by Gilmour and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with ALT-J and Marika Hackman; with lyrics mostly by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife and co-writer for the past 30 years.
Prizes courtesy of Sony/Legacy.
Register now. Deadline end of day Oct. 6.
Posted September 30, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Posted September 24, 2024 by Floydian Slip
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Posted September 23, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Posted September 20, 2024 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour appears on a new recording of “Comfortably Numb” made by Ice T‘s group Body Count.
The metal band’s reworking of the Pink Floyd classic is out now on digital platforms. It’ll be part of the band’s “Merciless” album that drops Nov. 22.
The collaboration began when Ice T contacted Gilmour for permission to cover the song. “I thought I might offer to play on it as well,” Gilmour tells Guitar World. “I like the new lyrics, they’re talking about the world we’re living in now, which is quite scary.”
Lyrics on the new version are by Ice T, replacing those on the original that were by Roger Waters.
“For me, ‘Comfortably Numb’ is an introspective song,” Ice-T tells the magazine. “It’s me acknowledging that I’m older now. I’m telling the younger generation, you’ve got two choices: You can keep the fire burning or you can give up.
“It’s me trying to make sense of what’s happening, but also pointing out that we’re all in a place where we don’t have to face reality.”
Read the full story at Guitar World
Posted September 17, 2024 by Floydian Slip
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