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Winners: Through the Prism by Aubrey Powell

Posted March 21, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to our winners of “Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive” by Aubrey Powell:

Tim Braatz, Rochester MN
Cary Heuchert, Surry BC
Jeff Stensland, Malibu CA
Vikki Wilson, Willington CT

Prizes courtesy of Thames & Hudson.

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Win: Through the Prism by Aubrey Powell

Posted March 14, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Register to win a copy of the new book by Pink Floyd design alum Aubrey Powell: “Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive.”

Designer, photographer and filmmaker Powell recounts behind-the-scenes stories of collaborations with legendary bands such as Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, The Police and … Pink Floyd.

Hardcover with 320 pages and more than 250 illustrations.

Prizes courtesy of Thames & Hudson.

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Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Happy 76th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)

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David Gilmour engineer Kit Woolven dead at 71

Posted January 27, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Kit Woolven, who co-engineered David Gilmour‘s 1984 album “About Face,” died yesterday. He was 71.

Woolven was best known for his work with Thin Lizzy, including Lizzy-splinter projects from Phil Lynott and Wild Horses. He also did work with David Bowie, UFO, Tony Iommi and others.

He recorded “About Face” with Andy Jackson. That album was produced by Gilmour and Bob Ezrin.

Cause of death was not announced.

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Happy Birthday, Nick Mason

Posted January 27, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Happy 78th Birthday, Nick Mason

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Photographer Mick Rock dead at 72

Posted November 19, 2021 by Floydian Slip

Syd Barrett photographer Mick Rock, the man who “The Man Who Shot the ’70s,” has died. He was 72.

A London native, Rock’s portfolio includes photos of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Queen, Joan Jett, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Blondie and many others.

Rock shot the cover photo for Pink Floyd co-founder Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs” (1970). In 2001 he published the book “Psychedelic Renegades,” a 950-copy limited edition devoted to Barrett, who autographed 320 deluxe leather-bound copies.

(Photo: Nathalie Rock, 2010)

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Syd Barrett guitar sells for £20k

Posted October 29, 2021 by Floydian Slip

A guitar once owned by Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett sold at auction yesterday for £19,920 ($27,456 US).

The 12-string Yamaha manufactured in 1969, sold by Barrett’s nephew, Mark Barrett, was expected to fetch £5,000 to £10,000.

The winning bid was placed online from France.

Proceeds of the auction benefited two charities: Mind and the Arthur Rank Hospice.

A garden table made by Syd sold to the same bidder for £2,365. And a pair of lights from his basement studio went for £258.

A Cambridgeshire High School for Boys photo from 1959 — featuring Syd, Roger Waters and Storm Thorgerson — along with a ’61 program for “She Stoops to Conquer ” featuring Syd as Tom Twist, sold for £744.

Syd Barrett items to be auctioned

Posted October 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip

Cheffins in Cambridge will auction a number of items connected to late Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

The highlight of the Oct. 28 auction might be Barrett’s Yamaha FG-230. The 12-string acoustic guitar is being sold by Barrett’s nephew, Mark Barrett, 57, who was given the piece by his father, Syd’s brother, Alan Barrett.

According to Mark, his father gained possession of the piece when the family sold its Hills Road house in Cambridge in 1974. He says Syd “never collected the guitar” and Alan “continued to store it over three subsequent house moves, eventually offering it to me.” Mark took possession of the guitar shortly before Alan passed away in November 2020.

The guitar is dated Oct. 21, 1969, and has a serial number of 1090448. It’s expected to bring £5,000 to £10,000 ($5,800-$11,600 US).

Syd referred to the instrument in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone. “I worked this out yesterday,” Syd told writer Mick Rock while playing a new take on “Love You” from his “Barrett” (1970) album. “I think it’s much better. It’s my new 12-string guitar. I’m just getting used to it. I polished it yesterday.”

The guitar will be auctioned with a copy of that Dec. 23, 1971, issue of Rolling Stone.

Proceeds of the auction lot will be split between the charities MIND and the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Cheffins also has a number of other lots featuring Barrett-related items such as artwork he painted near the end of this life in 2006 and furniture.

Also of interest to Floyd fans, two business cards from David Gilmour’s early band Jokers Wild will also go on the block.

Cheffins’s Art & Design Sale begins at 10:00 a.m. local time on Oct. 28. Learn more at Cheffins.

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Roger Waters marries Kamilah Chavis

Posted October 14, 2021 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder and long-time solo artist Roger Waters married Kamilah Chavis.

Waters posted photos of the occasion on Facebook yesterday, with the comment, “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.”

According to Yahoo!, Waters met Chavis at one of his concerts, when Chavis drove the car that brought him to the show.

“I was in the same place for two weeks and we were being transported between the hotel and the stadium. My security guard would sit with her and they’d talk while I was in the back. I don’t know, something attracted me,” he recalls. “One day I said, ‘Excuse me,’ and she turned around. ‘Did someone ever tell you that you have beautiful cheekbones?’ I saw a small reaction, and that was the beginning.”

This is Waters’s fifth marriage. He split most-recently in 2015 with Laurie Durning.

The ceremony took place at Waters’s Bridgehampton estate on the eastern end of New York’s Long Island.

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