EMI’s “Why Pink Floyd …?” campaign includes expanded and remastered album packages paired with restored concert footage, plus a new single-disc best-of collection. ►
Urban legend claims that if you play Pink Floyd’s classic album while watching “The Wizard of Oz,” there’s an incredible synchronicity. Well, we’ve tried it! Here are the results. ►
For collectors of the continuous-loop cartridge format known as the eight-track tape, it is a prize few have been able to find, let alone afford: the Quadraphonic U.K. release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest/EMI Records Q8 SHVL 804). ►
Richard Wright, keyboard player and sometime vocalist and songwriter with Pink Floyd, died Sept. 14, 2008. He was 65. A spokesman for the band, Doug Wright (no relation), said Wright passed away following a short struggle with cancer. ►