{"id":12423,"date":"2025-11-06T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12423"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:37:59","slug":"live-at-pompeii-director-adrian-maben-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2025\/11\/live-at-pompeii-director-adrian-maben-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Live at Pompeii&#8221; director Adrian Maben dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-maben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12425 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-maben.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian Maben\" width=\"917\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-maben.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-maben-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-maben-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Maben<\/strong>, who directed the 1972 concert film &#8220;Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii,&#8221; has died, according to the official Pink Floyd Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The French edition of Wikipedia lists the date and place of his passing as Oct. 28 in Ivry-sur-Seine, outside Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>Maben, who was 82, not only directed the film, but conceived of the concept of the band playing to an empty amphitheatre at the ancient Italian city that was buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Movie Database lists 20 directing credits for Maben, including 1978&#8217;s &#8220;Magritte&#8221; about the Belgian surrealist artist with music from Floyd&#8217;s <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>; and 2005&#8217;s &#8220;The Making of Ca Ira,&#8221; a documentary about Waters&#8217;s opera released that same year.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: \u201cAdrian Maben in Pompeii\u201d by Matej Zloch, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Maben, who directed the 1972 concert film &#8220;Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii,&#8221; has died, according to the official Pink Floyd Facebook page. The French edition of Wikipedia lists the date and place of his passing as Oct. 28 in Ivry-sur-Seine, outside Paris, France. Maben, who was 82, not only directed the film, but conceived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12429,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions\/12429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}