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Eagle Rock Entertainment will reissue “Knebworth: The Album,” a document of a 1990 charity concert including a performance by Pink Floyd.

The reissue is scheduled for March 23. Originally released by Polygram Records on Aug. 6, 1990, the 2-CD set has long been out of print.

Recorded June 30, 1990, the event was a superstar benefit for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the Brit School Of Performing Arts. The reissue will benefit the same charities.

Disc #1:

1. Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World
2. Tears For Fears — Badman’s Song
3. Status Quo — Dirty Water
4. Status Quo — Whatever You Want
5. Status Quo — Rockin’ All Over The World
6. Cliff Richard & The Shadows — On The Beach
7. Cliff Richard & The Shadows — Do You Wanna Dance
8. Robert Plant — Hurting Kind
9. Robert Plant — Liar’s Dance
10. Robert Plant — Tall Cool One
11. Robert Plant — Wearing And Tearing
12. Genesis — Mama
13. Genesis — Turn It On Again Medley: Somebody To Love / Satisfaction / Twist And Shout / Reach Out I’ll Be There / You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling / Pinball Wizard / In The Midnight House / Turn It On Again

Disc #2:

1. Phil Collins — Sussudio
2. Eric Clapton — Sunshine Of Your Love
3. Dire Straits — Think I Love You Too Much
4. Elton John — Sad Songs (Say So Much)
5. Elton John — Saturday Night’s All Right (For Fighting)
6. Paul McCartney — Coming Up
7. Paul McCartney — Hey Jude
8. Pink Floyd — Comfortably Numb
9. Pink Floyd — Run Like Hell

Read more about “Knebworth: The Album.”

Eagle Rock Entertainment is a media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. The company has offices in London, New York, Germany, France and Toronto.

Canadian world rockers Blurred Vision have released a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” with a modern twist.

The group changed a couple of choice lyrics to send a message of solidarity to youth fighting for their freedom in Iran.

The video, directed by Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami, who splits his time between Tehran and Toronto, is racking up the views on YouTube — nearly 70,000 at this writing.

According to the band’s Web site, the single should be available for download on iTunes soon.

Prog-jazz trio The Bad Plus has included a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” on the group’s album “For All I Care.”

The recording includes Minneapolis alt-rock vocalist Wendy Lewis (The Plus).

The album also includes covers of other classic cuts by Yes (“Long Distance Runaround”), the Bee Gees (“How Deep Is Your Love”) and Heart (“Barracuda”).

“For All I Care” was released 11 months ago, Feb. 3, 2009 — but if you’re like us, it’s new to you.

Fruits de Mer Records has released a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s 1968 single “Julia Dream” by Swedish duo Us and Them.

The song, a medley of the Floyd number written by Roger Waters and the traditional nursery rhyme “All the Pretty Horses,” appears on a limited edition 7-inch vinyl EP along with two other covers: “Dialogue,” originally by Jackson C. Frank, and “Home to Stay,” first recorded by Tudor Lodge.

The “ice”-colored record plays at 33.3 RPM and comes enclosed in an 8-page full-color booklet containing lyrics.

This is the eighth release from the Surrey-based Fruits de Mer Records, which boasts it “loses money on every release and we love it.” The company, in business for 18 months, has previously released re-recordings of songs originally by Small Faces, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Nick Drake, Caravan, Kraftwerk, Van der Graaf Generator, Nico and others.

This latest release is available for $8 (£5) directly from the label: www.fruitsdemerrecords.com, or at a handful of U.K.-based retailers: Piccadilly Records, Norman Records, Heyday Mail Order and Rough Trade.

The title isn’t yet listed at the label’s Web site, but you can contact them directly to purchase: fruitsdemer7@hotmail.com.

The Flaming Lips‘ cover of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” is available for pre-order at the iTunes Store. The album will be released Dec. 22 on iTunes, and at other download sites at a later date.

The 10-track album costs $9.99. None of the tracks is available for purchase alone.

Read our previous posts about the project:

• Flaming Lips to cover “Dark Side” (Oct. 16, 2009)
• Video: Flaming Lips play “Eclipse” (Oct. 24, 2009)
• Flaming Lips to do “Dark Side” live (Dec. 2, 2009)

Roger Waters’ “Vera” will be covered by Curtis Stigers on his upcoming album “Lost in Dreams.”

The song, which appeared on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in 1979, will be included in a medley with “We’ll Meet Again,” the wartime ballad that’s the trademark song of British vocalist Vera Lynn, the subject of Waters’ song.

Stigers says he got the idea for combining the songs in 1995 while in England during the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.

“I thought, ‘God, wouldn’t it be cool to put these two songs together,'” he says. “I filed the idea away, and then I brought it up with Scrapper (co-producer John “Scrapper” Sneider) when we were talking about songs for this record. His eyes lit up and he said, ‘That’s perfect. What a great idea.'”

“Lost in Dreams” will be released Sept. 29 by the Concord Jazz label.

Purchase “Medley: Vera/We’ll Meet Again” as an MP3 download. Or purchase the entire “Lost in Dreams” album online now.

All purchases help support “Floydian Slip.”

(Photo: Andy Lawless)