1900

Pink Anderson Council, Carolina guitarist, died in 1974, known for "South forest boogie" and his work with Blind Simmie Dooley.

1911    

Floyd "Dipper boy" Council, Carolina guitarist, died in 1976, known for travels through the Piedmont with Blind Boy Fuller in the 1930's.

09.09.63

Roger Waters born in ???????

28.07.45

Richard Wright born in ??????

04.01.46

Syd Barrett born in Cambridge.

06.03.46

David Gilmour born in Cambridge, UK.

00.00.57

Barrett, Gilmour and Thorgerson at the High School in Cambridge.

00.00.58

Dead of Winifred Barrett, Syd's father.

1960-64

Barrett and Gilmour at the Technical School, Cambridge. Syd refused from the "Sant Saji", a Cambridge religious sect.

 

00.00.65

Syd at the Camberwell Art School of London. Live in a house at Highgate with two students of the Regent Street Polytechnics, Roger Waters and Bob Klose.

 

27.03.66

The Floyd first met producers Andrew King and Peter Jenner.

16.10.66          

First interview with group, in The Sunday Times (Published October 30, 1966)

31.10.66          

Blackhill Enterprise is set up. This marked the beginning of the Floyd's professional career.

31.10.66          

Floyd went to Thompson Private Recording Company in Hemel Hempstead, UK to make test recordings.

"Let's Roll Another One" studio session. (3':30). The quality of the recording was dreadful. (They also supposedly recorded "I Get Stoned", "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Lucy Lee In Blue Tights").

 

30.01.67          

Photo sessions and rehearsal, London, UK.

06.02.67          

"Jackie" photo sessions, London.

07.02.67          

"Fabulous" photo sessions, London, UK.

13.02.67          

Photo session, London, UK.

01.04.67          

EMI Launches the group with the press.

01.04.67

"Arnold Layne" n. 41 on Melody Maker Top Chart.

08.04.67

"Arnold Layne" n. 21 on Melody Maker Top Chart.

15.04.67

"Arnold Layne" n. 22 on Melody Maker Top Chart.

22.04.67

"Arnold Layne" n. 20 on Melody Maker Top Chart.

29.04.67

"Arnold Layne" dropping out from the Melody Maker Top Chart.

April-August '67

Syd lives in Croydon Road, London.

April-May '67

Gilmour: "I actually  come back from France because we'd had all our michrophones stolen and I came back to buy michrophones in London because you could buy second hand Shures in Lisle St. for £7, and new they were £35 each in Paris. I came back to buy those and I rang Syd up and spoke to him girlfriend and she said they were in a studio in Chelsea, recording. So i droppen in on them, and they were recording "See Emily play". Syd, who had been a friend of mine for years, just looked straight through me, barely acknowledged that I was there very weird".

June '67

"See Emily play" n. 1 in the Radio London "Big L" chart in the week of his release.

08.07.67

"Emily" on Record Mirror chart until late August. Highest position n. 6 (in M.M. highest position was n. 5).

Summer '67     

Syd Barrett. By the summer o 1967, Syd Barrett began to undergo changes. Whether Syd was an "acid casuality" or just began to suffer from the preassures around him (or both) is unclear. However, stories of Syd are legendary. His attitude began to change; he would either flaty refuse to play, not show up, or just strum one guitar chord on stage. He became difficult to work with and displays of erratic behavior were common. The other members of the Floyd began to struggle with the fact that the leader of their group was no longer capable of leading.

late July '67

Syd return in Cambridge. All August shows cancelled?

06.09.67

"The piper" (for the 2nd week on charts) n. 9 on UK charts.

09.09.67          

Press Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

02.10.67          

Photo session, London, UK.

06.10.67          

The UFO Club closes.

09.12.67          

Interview with OZ magazine.

00.12.67          

The band decides that Syd is becoming completely impossible to work with. Over Christmas, they first approach David Gilmour to join the group.

Late '67

Peter Watts road manager of Pink Floyd.

00.00.67

Melody Maker Top Pool: Pink Floyd 4th place.

 

00.00.68          

Peter Jenner (Blackhill Enterprises) applies, without luck, for a grant from the "Arts Council of Great Britain". Evidently, the grant was to pay for a movie with Pink Floyd, but more than likely the money was just to raise funds for the debt-laen group.

00.01.68          

Syd suggests expanding the group to a six-piece with the adition of a banjo and a saxophonist.

27.01.68          

David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd. The press is informed on February 18th of the change. The group had hoped to get Gilmour in to play at the shows and to have Syd stay on as a writer. From January to February they performed as a five-piece band in concert. It became unworkable and from March to April Syd didn't come to the live shows anymore.

02.03.68          

Blackhill Enterprises is dissolved. Peter Jenner and Andrew King of Blackhill Enterprises believed the group had no future without Syd and the other members of the band knew that they couldn't carry on with him. Their partnership ended  when the rest of the group asked Syd to leave. Steve O'Rourke would then become Pink Floyd's manager.

06.04.68          

Syd Barrett's departure officially announced. The Floyd were about a quarter of the way through recording of their second album "A saucerful of secrets" when Syd left the group for good.

Summer '68

Syd holydays in Ibiza.

15.07.68          

Roger Waters is quoted as saying Pink Floyd is working on a "Rock Circus" event, in which the Floyd would present their light and quad show under a big top. This never happened, hpwever, because the tent people pulled out.

00.09.68

Pink Floyd first met Barbret Schroeder during a TV appearance in Paris, France.

04.12.68          

Premiere of "Pawn to King 5", a ballet that featured the music of Pink Floyd.

           

26.06.69

At this time, the Press reports that the Floyd were spending nearly all their time writing music for Orchestra, which was to be played at a concert in December. This might have been the early beginning of "Atom heart mother"?

08.10.69

Ron Geesin met Roger Waters for the first time. The first golf match on 4.11.69.

00.00.69

Syd stay at Thorgerson's house in South Kensington, and after removal at Earl's Court Mans n. 25 with his friend Duggie Fields.

 

08.04.70          

Pink Floyd is elected in France best rock group of the year in front of Rolling Stones.

16.05.70

While Pink Floyd were in New Orleans, a truck of all of their equipment - valued at approximately $ 40.000 - was stolen. The police were apparently disinterested in helping the group find the truck. However, the group found help through the staff of the Royal Orleans Hotel, were the group had been staying. An acquaintance of the staff, who the group described as an "FBI Geezer", was brought in to help find the truck. The group also placed radio and TV spots offering rewards for the return of the truck. The truck was soon found abandoned with three guitar missing.

Summer '70

Ron Geesin work on "Atom heart mother". Orchestral parts written at Ladbroke Groove Studios.

30.08.70

David Gilmour  watching the Isle of Wight Festival.

10.10.70

The album cover picture of "Atom heart mother" was taken in Essex, in a field across from a pub.

10.10.70

Pink Floyd are in holyday in Saint Tropez, France. Creation of "San Tropez" for "Meddle".

11.12.70

Paris Pullman de Drayton Gardens, Paris, France. "Tonite let's all make love in London" presented like a movie about Rolling Stones!!!

00.00.70          

The Floyd worked on the music for a cartoon project titled "Rollo". It was to have been a series of seventeen half-hour shows to be shown on USA TV. A pilot was made and then the project was abandoned. The cartoon, however, was said to have been spectacular. The artwork for the project was to have been done by Alan Aldridge.

00.00.70

Syd return in Cambridge.

                

00.04.71

Nascono i figli di Mason e Wright.

17.10.71          

Special quadraphonic presentation of "Echoes" at the Roundhouse, London, UK. (This was presented by EMI; the band was still on tour in the USA.

00.12.71          

The beginnig of December spent in rehearsal.

00.12.71          

The group spent the rest of December writing and rehearsing "Eclipsed". (Roger says 5-6 weeks were spent on the new LP)

00.00.71

The dog on "Seamus" is Wright Levrier Barzo•.

 

00.00.72          

Ricky Hopper sends demo recordings of Kate Bush to David Gilmour for a listen. Gilmour is interested and is looking for new talent to promote. He latest produces recording sessions which lead to securing Kate a recording contract with EMI.

11.01.72          

"Football Mayehem". P.F.F.C. XI beats Family, at Caledonian Park, Norther London, UK. (The Pink Floyd Football Club (P.F.F.C.) is all of the Floyd and friends and even cheerleaders)

Braving the monsoon rains to support the boys, the cheerleaders sang, "We got the shit, we got the dope, but Family's team ain't got a hope" (Football is the group's passion; Roger's original title for Echoes was "We won the double")

00.03.72          

Interview with Syd in Melody Maker (Uk magazine). Syd says in the interview that will be producing his own album and that it will consist of "12 jolly good singles".

00.10.72          

"The dark side of the moon" album by Medicine Head published. (France. Polydor. 2.310.166)

25.11.72          

Special preview screening of "Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii" at the Rainbow Theatre was banned by the Rank Organization. Banned by The Rank Organization from being show at the Rainbow in November, for the reason that the Rainbow's lease (it was an ex-cinema) forbade its competing with Rank Cinemas, none of which had evinced any interest in showing the movie.

00.00.72

"The dark side of the moon" album by Jo' Burg Hawk published. (France. Phonogram. 6369-928)

 

27.02.73

The London Planetarium, Marylebone Road, London, UK. Special press presentation of "Dark side of the moon".

17.04.73          

R.I.A.A. Gold Disc Award for "Dark Side Of The Moon". (The only USA award it is given)

28.04.73          

"Dark Side Of The Moon" goes #1 in USA! The band's first of many #1 records. On UK charts for 32 weeks.

23.08.73          

"More" re-issued. USa and UK.

00.08.73

Kate Bush demo sessions at David Gilmour's farm (Central UK). Kate Bush records demo tracks at Gilmour's home studio, with Dave on guitar and backing by members of Unicorn. They record "Passing through air" and "Davy" (later re-titled "Maybe"). Recording companies are disinterested in her material at this point. Gilmour sees potential talent and puts up the money 1975 to make a three-track demo under professional conditions.

 

25.06.74          

University Paris Campus, Paris, France. Pink Floyd F.C. XI versus journalists in soccer match. Unfortunately the journalists scored a rare victory over the P.F.F.C. (4 to 3).

00.06.74

Gilmour, Mason, Wright and O'Rourke at the French EMI for "Dark side" platinum disc (500.000 copies sold in France at this time).

23.09.74          

Filming in London, UK through October 18.

30.11.74

Pink Floyd spent the afternoon watching football.

00.11.74          

Syd Barrett was in the studio for two or three days to record songs for a third album. Only backing tracks were recorded. The material was very strange, and never has been released. This is the last known time that Syd was in the studio to record.

14.12.74

Pink Floyd spent the afternoon watching football (Bristol-Nottingham Forest 1:0)

00.00.74

British Winter Tour '74. $ 100.000 investment for the tour. Waters, Mason and Artur Max, the sound engineer visual material work at Elstree in 1974.

00.00.74

"Dark side" n. 1 at N.M.E. Readers Pool 1974 (British/World section); M.M. Readers Pop Pool 1973 (British/International section) and Top Albums 1973; Disc and Music Echo Top Albums 1973.

 

00.00.75                      

Roger Waters writes the song "How Do You Feel" in response to the French GINI incident (GINI gave £50.000 to photograph the Floyd "floating" and say "I drink GINI". This cause a multitude of problems for the Floyd in France, and some French magazines claimed it alienated the fans)

Spring '75        

"Shamal" byGong released, produced by Nick Mason.

00.06.75          

Kate Bush demo sessions, Air Studios, London, UK. . David Gilmour produces a professionalthree-track demo recording consisting of "Saxophone Song", "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" and "Maybe". These demo tracks soon lead to a recording deal with EMI, launching Kate Bush's career.

00.00.75

Derek Meddings work with Pink Floyd. Worked with Floyd again in 19843, concepting the "stab-in-the-back" dagger on the sleeve of "The final cut".                       

01.04.76          

Dave Gilmour's house is broken into and his guitar are stolen. Most of the guitars were returned after someone was seen in a local pub with one of this custom strats.

02.08.76          

Peter Watts, former road manager of the Floyd, is found dead in his apartment from a heroin overdose.

02.12.76          

Photographers meet at Battersea Power Station, London, UK, in the early morning to photograph the pig for the "Animals" album cover. They didn't have enough helium for liftoff so the photographers had to come back on December 3rd.

03.12.76          

Guideline breaks and pig soars to a height of well over 20.000 feet before landing in a farmer field of James Stewart in Chilham, Kent, UK. Three minute of the pig's flight was shown on BBC TV sometime in December of 1976.

From '76-'81

Syd live at "Park Hotel Hilton", London.

00.00.76

Rumors about a Pink Floyd soundtrack for a "Dune" movie by Jodorowski.

           

19.01.77          

"Animals" is played for the press at Battersea Power Station, London, UK. Few people heard it over the noise of the party.

00.01.77

Gilmour, Mason and Wright visit the German EMI during the "Animals" german shows.

00.02.77

Paris, "Pink Floyd Party" with band members.

16.04.77          

"Animals" LP goes Platinum in the USA! (This means the album has sold 1.000.000 copies)

28.08.77          

Flight reported between Rick Wright and Chief of Police of Lindos (Greece) a small island the Floyd use as a resort.

00.00.77

World tour. Waters wore headphones all the time, so he could hear the "click track" on the soundtrack of the film, allowing the band to play in sync with the projected image.

     

00.01.78          

Nick Mason produced the Damned's "Music For Pleasure" at Pink Floyd's own Britannia Row Studios, London, UK.

00.01.78          

David Gilmour working on his first solo album at the Super Bear Studios, Miravel, France. It took him only three or four weeks to finish it. Gilmour suggests this recording location to Kate Bush for her second solo album, "Lioneheart". It was recorded and released November 10, 1978.

00.01.78          

Roger Waters formulates his overall concept of "The Wall" and begins preparing demo tapes.

10.01.78          

Rick Wright began work on his first solo album, using the same studio as Gilmour, the Super Bear Studios in France.

14.02.78          

Rick finishes his "Wet Dream" LP.

25.05.78          

Hotel Prince de Galles, Paris, France. David Gilmour presents his solo album to the press. Other presentations made in Germany.

03.10.78          

John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Paul McCartney, Pete Twonshend, David Gilmour and Hank Marvin partecipate in a session for Wings "Back To The Eggs" LP at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK. . Two tracks were recorded, with David Gilmour on guitar. (Rockestra Theme, So Glad To See You Here).

00.11.78          

Work begins on "The Wall", using Roger's (already recorded) demos. Massive changes would be made before the album would be in its final form.

00.11.78          

New Pink Floyd LP announced by EMi as "Walls". The horrified group and EMKA hurriedly deny this.

00.11.78          

Steve O'Rourke announces that by the end of 1979, Floyd will have a 5000-seater travelling concert hall-a canvas tent. This never came to be.

00.00.78

Gilmour accepting "WYWH" gold LP in Greece.

00.00.78

Pink Floyd P.A. for the Anti-Fascist Festival with Clash, Tom Robinson and others.

 

00.00.79          

David Gilmour mixes the "Kerb Crawler" LP for Hawkind.

31.03.79          

David Gilmour in London producing a Phil May (ex-Pretty Things) album.

00.04.79          

Studio work begins on "The Wall". Recording too place from April to November '79. (3 studios). (Super Bear Studios, Miravel France; CBS Studios, NYC USA; Producers Workshop, Los Angeles, California, USA)

01.06.79          

Floyd's new album was handed over to EMI. Work continued on it until November. At this time no one was sure whether it would be a doube or a triple album. Even after inner bags were printed, parts were cuts of time restrictions.

12.12.79          

"Nick Mason's Fictitious sports" completed. The album showed up two yearslater because of record company problems.

 

17.01.80          

The Floyd sign a long-term world-wide co-publishing and administration agreement with Chappel International music publisher. This was thought to be most expensive deal ever made.

19.01.80          

"The Wall" LP goes #1 in the USA!

24.01.80          

The Floyd pay for a vanity billboard to be erected on Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, USA. It was white at first but workers removed a few bricks each day to reveal a Gerald Scarfe illustration beneath.

00.01.80          

(January through February) Radio stations in the USA: Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, and other battled to see who could give away the most tickets to the upcoming Wall concerts.

15.03.80          

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" reaches the #1 position on the USA charts.

22.03.80          

"Dark Side of the Moon" overtakes Carole King's "Tapestry" for the longest run of a contemporary album in the American charts. (On 15/3/80 "Dark Side of the Moon" tied Carole King's album at 302 weeks total on the chart).

22.03.80          

"The Wall" LP goes Platinum in the USA. (The group's second Platinum album. By this date the album had sold over a million copies).

29.03.80          

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" goes Gold in USA. (This means it sold a million copies of the 45!)

15.04.80          

The Floyd return to England. Pink Floyd were tax exiles, being unable to pay their 83% of earning to H.M. in land revenue because of the Norton Wardburg crash, so until they could return in England. They lived at the Tropicana Motor Hotel on Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.

06.05.80          

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" 45 was banned by the South African government after school kids took to singing it in protest of their school system. The Nazi's rounded up all of the 45's and LP's by Pink Floyd that they could find in the stores and homes and burnt the vinyl.

00.00.80

Syd shock treatment.

00.00.80

Pink Floyd british concerts were planned for Milton Keynes Open Air Arena but then shifted to Earl's Court.

 

00.03.81          

Pink Floyd sues Norton Warburg for £1,000,000, charging fraud and negligence. The Norton Warburg group invested nearly £3,300,000 of the group's money in such things as the Britannia Row studio complex, a skateboard manufacturer, a seafood processing company, and a chutney maker while acting as Pink Floyd's agents. Andrew Warburg, meanwhile, fled to Spain.

08.05.81          

Original script for "The Wall" movie completed.

07.09.81          

Shooting began for "The Wall" film, at Pinewood Studios, London, UK. (By Tin Blue, Ltd. in association with Goldcrest Films). The original idea of "The wall" movie had been to use a Floyd concert as a unifying factor, and accordingly Earl's court was booked for a re-run of the "Wall" shows for 5 dates in June 1981, but the shooting was a total disaster.

00.00.81?

"Laser Floyd (The all new laser light show, feat. computer laser animation choreographed to the music of Pink Floyd)Ó" at Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, USA.

Songs: Welcome to the machine, Run like hell, Hey you, Is there anybody out there?, Echoes, Grandchester meadows, Speak to me, Breathe, Comfortably numb, On the run, Money, The happiest days of our lives, Another brick in the wall part 2, Goodbye cruel world, Brain damage, Eclipse.

20.03.83

Waters collect a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for "Best song from a film" for "Another brick in the wall part 2" in London.

23.03.83          

Press presentation at Madison Square Garden, New York, USA. (44:00) (Original version LP played on tape)

16.04.83          

Nick Mason enters Vintage Sports Car Club's Hala Trophy at Silverstone, UK driving his 250F Maserati.

29.10.83          

"Dark Side of the Moon" overtakes Johnny Mathis' "Greatest Hits" as America's longest running charted LP of all time!!! The LP is at 491 weeks in the USA Top 200 charts.

00.11.83

Possible date for Pink Floyd concerts, later withdrawn.

00.00.83

Pink Floyd might have done one gig for a TV simulcast.

 

00.00.84

Waters tour: "Brain damage/Eclipse" with footage of Edward Hearth et. al.

00.00.84          

David Gilmour writes the song "Hope" with a little assistance from Pete Townshend. Rejected from both the "About Face" and the "White City" LP, it finally appeared on Roy Harper's 1985 LP "Whatever Happened to Jugula". It appears that Dave wrote the music to the song and that the song was finished with different lyrics by both Pete Townshend and Roy Harper. The Pete Townshend version appears briefly on his "White City" video.

29.09.84          

Nick Mason opens a camera show at the Martlet's Hall, Burgess Hill, Sussex, UK. Turned up in his Bugatti; his Formula 1 "Wall" car was already there. Remarked that he was "working on a solo album, and music for a horror film. I'll have to do it withmy eyes closed because I hate them..."

00.12.84          

David Gilmour on Kate Bush promotional message for Japan. (6:00)

10.12.84          

"The Rock Chronicles" Pink Floyd documentary with interviews with Gilmour and Waters, USA radio special (14:00)

1984-85

Mason at Parma, Italy for annual veteran cars meeting.

00.00.84

Barrett leave Chelsea, London and return in Cambridge.

           

02.09.85          

Nick Mason began a promotional tour in the UK, to plug "Profiles", untile 6/9/85. He traveled as pilot of the De Havilland Devon twin-engined, executive airplane which he co-owns with Dave.

00.00.85

Mason at "London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.

             

00.00.86          

Roger Waters begin work on "When the Wind Blows" movie soundtrack and "Radio K.A.O.S." LP. Demos include "Get Back To Radio" on CD single. (5:00),"Me or Him" (5:00)

00.09.86          

Work begins on "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", using Dave Gilmour's demos, some of which dated back to 1977.

31.10.86          

Roger Waters files suit against David Gilmour and Nick Mason to prevent them from using the name "Pink Floyd".

00.00.86

Mason at "London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.

 

06.04.87          

Roger Waters released a press announcment saying that he will never again record with the other members of Pink Floyd.

Mid '87 

Rick Wright rejoins the floyd unoficcially because possible litigation against him prevents him from officially declaring membership.

29.07.87          

Returning from Spain, Andrew Warburg was jailed for three years for fraudulent trading and false accounting between October 1978 and March 1981. Pink Floyd was among those that sued him.

00.10.87          

Roger Waters announces that he will spend the month at Compass Point, in the Bahamas, recording a new album.

The album's working (and possibly final) title is "Amused To Death". The cover may possibly feature a drawing by Gerald Scarfe of three people floating in a champagne glass.

28.11.87          

Pink Floyd, "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" LP goes Platinum in the USA!

 

Early '88          

Michael Jackson approaches the Floyd and other bands, to contribue a Beatle cover song for the forthcoming film, "Strawberry Fields".

28.01.88          

European tour press presentation in London, Uk with a inflatable bed and 30.000 pink balloons. The  balloons were also launched simultaneously in the UK in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, and Cardiff. (Find a "Pink Balloon" and get a free ticket to a Uk show!)

00.01.88

Pig flying over the Sydney Opera House, Australia, after which it broke loose.

27.03.88          

Member(s) of Floyd take part in a celebrity Banger Racing evening at Wimbledon Stadium, London, UK in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Theraphy Centre.

30.04.88          

"Dark Side Of The Moon" finally frops out the USA album charts, after 724 weeks on the Top 200!! The LP has been consecutively on the USa charts for 591 weeks (18/12/76 through 23/4/88)! Due to a quirk in the system, it was only awarded a gold disc. The LP was released before they "invented" Platinum discs in 1/1/76, so it has received nothing!! "Dark Side Of The Moon" has sold well over 10.000.000 LP's in USa alone.

00.05.88

Barrett patient in a Cambridge mental hospidal.

14.11.88          

Pink Floyd, "TASS News", Moskva, USSR. Soviet and French cosmonauts request a copy of Pink Floyd's new live LP "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" for their next space flight to the USSR's "Space Station", "MIR". They want to listen to a tape of the live LP during their long stay in the "MIR" and want this LP to be the first in their "Space-Music" library!!

00.00.88

Mason at "London to Brighton" annual veterans car run.

00.00.88

Waters ask £35.000 to Pink Floyd for the unhautorized use of the flying pig during their shows.  

19.03.89

Gilmour, Mason and O'Rourke attended the Demolition Derby at Wimbledon Stadium (Charity fundraise for the Nordoff-Robins Music Therapy Centre, London)

00.05.89

Moscow, Pink Floyd press conference.

31.05.89          

"First International Rock Awards" New York City, USA. Floyd was up for "Tour of theYear"! A 30 second clip of "Learning to Fly" (live) was shown. (This clip probably is from the "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" video?). (Floyd lost out to "Amnesty International Tour 2".

00.07.89

Pink Floyd press conference in Venezia, Italy.

11.10.89          

David Palmer's Pink Floyd project debuts at the Barbican, London, UK. (Entitled, "Leave Those Kids Alone"!!). Featured the Royal Philarmonics Pops orchestra and Clare Torry. A charity benefit for NS PCC. Floyd songs played by an orchestra, what a novel idea?? And no, they didn't play the Floyd's orchestral piece "Atom Heart Mother". Instead they performed: Run Like Hell, Money, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In The Wall (part 1 and 2), Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5), Goodbye Blue Sky, When The Tigers Broke Free, Eclipse, and an encore of Run Like Hell (again).

05.11.89

Mason at "London to Brighton" annual veterans car run (from Hyde Park, London to Maidera Drive, Brighton).

00.12.89          

"Object of Fantasy: The Music of Pink Floyd" LP released, by David Palmer and the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra (RCA Records). UK release only, so far. A recording of the orchestral versions of Pink Floyd songs, similar to the 11/10/89 concert. On the LP is: Run Like Hell, Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2, Goodbye Blue Skies, Money, Hey You, Wish You Were Here, On The Turning Away, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5), When The Tigers Broke Free, Eclipse. (Total = 54:20)

28.12.89          

Gilmour, Jon Lord and others hold a charity show to raise money for some "spiritualist lady"?! Someplace in London, UK. (Rumors of an Lp, too??)

 

21.09.90

"The Wall" action at Christies.

27.11.90

Waters work on a production at the Bastille Opera in Paris, confirmed by Etienne Roda, a co-writer of the project in an interview on A2. 21.09.92 the date of the broadcast for the occasion of the Federation Day.

00.00.90

Waters, regional secretary of the "Country Landowners Association".

 

 

Tour Information.

We do have a few of the attendance figures and revenues These are taken from various Billboard magazines.

They are as follows:

15.06.77             Milwaukee

60.000 tickets sold and $540.000 made.

19.06.77            Chicago

67.000 tickets sold and $670.000 made.

21.06.77            Kansas City

12.115  tickets sold and $120.000 made.

23.06.77            Cincinnati

14.500 tickets sold and $127.425 made.

25.06.77             Cleveland

81.320 audience (records for a rock show in USA)

 

09.09.87            Ottawa

26.062 tickets sold (not a sellout) and $640.000 made.

12-14.09.87

42.912 audience.

16-17.09.87            Cleveland

A two day total of 128.364 tickets ans $ 2.567.280!

19.09.87            Philadelphia

80.254 tickets ans $ 1.615.080.

21-23.09.87            Toronto

A three day total of 146.660 tickets ans $ 2.825.860 (This was Billboard Magazine #1 Box Office receipts for 1987)

25-28.09.87

54.400 audience.

30.09.87            Milwaukee

58.044 tickets and $ 1.160.800.

03.10.87            Syracuse

34.356 tickets and $ 687.120.

5-7.10.87            New York City

A three day total of 50.571 tickets and $ 1.100.500.

10-12.10.87            E. Rutherford

A three day total of 51.923 tickets ans $ 1.049.445.

16-17.10.87            Providence

A two day total of 23.860 tickets ans $ 536.850.

19-22.10.87            Landover

A four day total of 54.505 tickets and $ 1.216.800.

25-26.10.87            Chapel Hill

A two day total of 28.636 tickets and $ 529.766.

30.10.87

55.107 audience.

01.11.87

55.000 audience.

3-5.11.87            Atlanta

A three day total of 41.429 tickets and $ 822.823.

7-8.11.87            Lexington

A two day total of 31.175 tickets and$ 576.738.

10.11.87            Pontiac

46.192 tickets and $ 923.840.

12.11.87            Indianapolis

41.782 tickets and $ 835.640.

15-16.11.87            St. Louis

A two day total of 27.954 tickets ans $ 489.675.

18.11.87            Houston

37.956 tickets and $ 734.760.

19-20.11.87            Austin

A two day total of 26.966 tickets and $ 548.460.

21-23.11.87            Dallas

A three day total of 54.204 tickets and $ 895.543.

 

Roger Waters sales:

14.09.87            Austin

5.275 tickets and $ 77.364.

17.09.87            Phoenix

8.344 tickets (out of a max of 12.195) and $ 137.676.

04.11.87            E. Rutherford

13.517 tickets and $ 233.334.

10.11.87            Hamilton

8.768 tickets (out of 10.800 max) and $ 121.826.