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— Yes. Castellorizon in Greece.
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— A very
nice chap called Steve Knee.
Steve also designed the very special packaging
(which resembles a book, complete with hard
covers, cloth spine, and foil-blocked spine
lettering) and supervised its production in
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— 51 minutes and 44 seconds...the perfect length.
— There are no plans for any live Pink Floyd
dates.
— Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright, is
on there, as is Guy Pratt (who has played bass with
Pink Floyd on two world tours, as well as contributing
much in the studio). The amazing Jools Holland lends
a hand (or two) on piano. David Crosby and Graham
Nash show up on the title track and Robert Wyatt makes
a contribution as well. Orchestrations are provided
by the renowned Polish composer, Zbigniew Preisner.
The album is produced by David Gilmour, Chris Thomas
and Phil Manzanera (who have worked with David and
Pink Floyd extensively since Dark Side Of The Moon),
and was released in March 2006.
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supports numerous worthy causes and his charitable
trust has donated a substantial amount to a
variety of charities (see Links).
He cares passionately about the homeless and
gave the entire proceeds of the sale of his
London town house to Crisis. He is now
their vice-president, although he prefers to
keep out of the public eye as much as possible.
He has performed at myriad benefit gigs for
Teenage Cancer Trust, Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy, Amnesty International,
and PETA among others. Of course, the
Pink Floyd reunion in July 2005 was driven by
a desire to contribute to an important cause
(Live 8) and the profits made from increased
record sales were also donated to charity at
David's behest. Unlike many celebrities, you
don't hear much about David's philanthropic
ways, but that's only because he doesn't advertise
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— Original front man and band founder, Syd Barrett,
thought up the name when he discovered that there
was another Tea Set due to play at the same venue
as his Tea Set. So he merged the names of two blues
musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, and settled
on The Pink Floyd Sound, which was later shortened
to Pink Floyd. The rest, as they say, is history.
Other early names include The Screaming Abdabs, The
Architectural Abdabs, Sigma 6, and The Meggadeaths.
— David has signed occasional things for fans,
plus the odd guitar for charity auctions, but he is
uncomfortable with the concept of autograph collectors,
as you can understand when you see the prices charged
for stars' autographs, including David's, on eBay.
He would really rather not be asked for an
autograph, in an ideal world.
— There is no fan club. North American fans have
been misinformed that they can buy pre-sale tickets
if they join David's fan club. This is incorrect.
There is no fan club and there are no plans to start
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