Posted August 19, 2025 by Floydian Slip
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Wish You Were Here album cover
Hollywood stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr., pictured ablaze on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” (1975) album, has died. He was 88.
He died Tuesday at a senior living commumity in Osage Beach, MO.
Rondell, who came from a family of stuntmen, doned a layer of protecting fireproofing under a business suit, was dosed with gasoline, and set on fire 15 times for the Hipgnosis photo shoot on the Warner Bros. backlot in Los Angeles. (Danny Rogers was the model on the left.)
“The flames were blown back and ignited his real moustache for an instant,” Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis recalled. “A close shave, one might say.”
“There’s a funny thing about fire,” Rondell said. “When it gets in your face, you’re going to move.”
“He fell to the ground, absolutely smothered with foam and blankets and everything like that, and he got up, said, ‘That’s it. No more,’” according to Aubrey “Po” Powell, the Hipgnosis team member shooting the photos. “Luckily, I got it in the can.”
Rondell’s resume included work for TV series “Charlie’s Angels,” “Baretta,” “S.W.A.T.”, “Fantasy Island,” “Dynasty,” “Hart to Hart,” “T.J. Hooker” and others.
His film work included “Lethal Weapon,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Speed,” and “Hooper,” among others.
He retired from Hollywood in 2000.
Read more about the “Wish You Were Here” photo shoot
Posted August 12, 2025 by Floydian Slip
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Posted July 29, 2025 by Floydian Slip
The concert film “David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome” will hit theaters Sept. 17. A DVD and Blu-ray of the film, as well as a soundtrack, will arrive a month later.
The film, showing in select cinemas including IMAX for one day, is a record of Gilmour’s 2024 concerts in Rome, promoting his album “Luck and Strange.” Filmed against the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Rome and directed by Gavin Elder, it features tracks from “Luck and Strange” as well as Pink Floyd classics.
“I can’t wait for you to relive what were — as far as I’m concerned — the best concerts of my career,” Gilmour says.
Tickets go on sale Aug. 6 at davidgilmour.film.
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Posted July 29, 2025 by Floydian Slip
An auditory nod to Pink Floyd’s aborted “household objects” project from the mid-1970s will be released in August.
Producers William Hayter and Barry Lamb will release “Household Objects (And Sundry Massed Gadgets),” an album consisting of 14 tracks recorded by various artists using everything except musical instruments.
The album harkens to the time Floyd spent recording in the mid-1970s. Searching for direction following the release of “The Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973, the group began work on an album to be recorded using, not instruments, rather ordinary household objects such as cigar boxes and wine glasses.
Progress was slow and difficult, and the project was eventually scrapped. (Two segments from these sessions appear on the Immersion boxsets of “Dark Side” and “Wish You Were Here” — “The Hard Way” and “Wine Glasses,” respectively. The wine glass experiment also found a home as the opening segment of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.”)
Participating artists include The Residents, Steve Beresford, Mark Hewins and others.
The CD includes a 32-page booklet with introduction by Floyd’s Nick Mason.
It’s available for pre-purchase on CD now; with digital platforms coming at the end of August.
Posted July 29, 2025 by Floydian Slip
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