{"id":8141,"date":"2017-08-05T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:10:56","slug":"new-pink-floyd-memoir-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2017\/08\/new-pink-floyd-memoir-published\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pink Floyd memoir published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Update 8\/6\/17:<\/strong> The order page for the book is again accepting pre-orders, with an estimated ship date of Aug. 24.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A just-published memoir from a late friend of Pink Floyd has already sold out. &#8220;In the Pink (Not a Hunting Memoir)&#8221; by <strong>Nick Sedgwick<\/strong> covers the time he spent with the band during 1974-75.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word yet whether the title will be reprinted.<\/p>\n<p>In a promotional piece for the book, <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> calls Sedgwick &#8220;one of my oldest friends,&#8221; and explains the author traveled with the band throughout England during its &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; tour, as well as into America during &#8217;75.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Nick finished the work in 1975 there was some resistance in the band to its publication,&#8221; Waters explains, &#8220;not surprising really as none of us comes out of it very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sedgwick died of brain cancer in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the book go to Sedgwick&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.roger-waters.com\/products\/in-the-pink-by-nick-sedgwick\">Visit the book&#8217;s page on the Roger Waters site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update 8\/6\/17: The order page for the book is again accepting pre-orders, with an estimated ship date of Aug. 24.) A just-published memoir from a late friend of Pink Floyd has already sold out. &#8220;In the Pink (Not a Hunting Memoir)&#8221; by Nick Sedgwick covers the time he spent with the band during 1974-75. There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","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=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}