Rick
12-06-2005, 06:06 PM
The four key members of veteran rock band Pink Floyd will be reunited on stage for the first time in 24 years at next month's Live 8 concert in London.
Roger Waters will join band members Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright for the show in Hyde Park.
Waters last performed on stage with them at London's Earls Court in 1981.
The Live 8 concert, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to help fight African poverty, is one of five taking place around the world on 2 July.
Pink Floyd join a star-studded line-up at Hyde Park which includes Madonna, REM, U2, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Coldplay and Robbie Williams.
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.
"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile," he added.
Legendary
Pink Floyd are viewed as being one of the biggest rock bands of all time.
The group released their first record in 1967, but achieved legendary status with albums such as 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.
Fans have long yearned for a reunion of the classic Pink Floyd line-up from the 1970s, but it seemed unlikely because of a fall-out between founder member Waters and the rest of the group in the mid-1980s.
Gilmour, Mason and Wright continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 80s and into the 90s, releasing their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.
text from bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4085966.stm
Roger Waters will join band members Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright for the show in Hyde Park.
Waters last performed on stage with them at London's Earls Court in 1981.
The Live 8 concert, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to help fight African poverty, is one of five taking place around the world on 2 July.
Pink Floyd join a star-studded line-up at Hyde Park which includes Madonna, REM, U2, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Coldplay and Robbie Williams.
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.
"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile," he added.
Legendary
Pink Floyd are viewed as being one of the biggest rock bands of all time.
The group released their first record in 1967, but achieved legendary status with albums such as 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.
Fans have long yearned for a reunion of the classic Pink Floyd line-up from the 1970s, but it seemed unlikely because of a fall-out between founder member Waters and the rest of the group in the mid-1980s.
Gilmour, Mason and Wright continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 80s and into the 90s, releasing their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.
text from bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4085966.stm