
Flashback: Pink Floyd Perform ‘Comfortably Numb’ at Knebworth in 1990
Shortly before they played, there was a backstage dustup between Floyd’s manager and Paul McCartney’s manager
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Subscribe NowShortly before they played, there was a backstage dustup between Floyd’s manager and Paul McCartney’s manager
“There is something special about Knebworth,” drummer Nick Mason says. “We all still have fond memories of playing there in the Seventies, and this show was no different”
The sideman looks back on a five-decade career that’s also included stints with Peter Green and unlikely solo hit “Bird of Paradise”
“I am definitely the only person who has been in the Smiths and Whitesnake,” says Pratt, who has played with Pink Floyd and their various offshoots since 1987
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Performance was part of star-studded production of ‘The Wall’ to commemorate the destruction of the Berlin Wall
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“That we allow Nuclear Weapons to exist in a world controlled by deranged sociopaths is, in itself, a deranged arrangement,” singer adds of The Final Cut closer
This 1990 gig at Knebworth marked the first time the ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ singer had performed with the band since 1973
Physical releases of motion picture and its soundtrack out this fall