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Roger Waters has unveiled the first sample of music from his controversial reworking of Pink Floyd‘s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon. The 52-second clip was uploaded to YouTube and features footage of Waters in the studio listening to the new version of Us And Them.
“When we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” says Waters. “It occurred to to me that Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album.
“I discussed it with Gus and Sean [musician/producer Gus Seyffer and collaborator Sean Evans], and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be fucking mad’ at one another we decided to take it on. We are now in the process of finishing the final mix. It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it.
“It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’. And also it is a way for me to honour a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.”
News of the reworking was originally announced during an interview Waters undertook with the Daily Telegraph, during which he told writer Tristram Fane Saunders, “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So… blah!”
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on April 6, 2026 at 1:50 pmROGER WATERS Radio K.A.O.S. (1987 UK 8-track vinyl LP with A1/B1 matrices, the second solo studio album from the former Pink Floyd bassist, housed in a striking picture sleeve with title sticker and complete with the original lyric inner and large fold-out poster. The sleeve (still in opened shrink!) displays only very minimal wear, the undisplayed poster and inner show a little light foxing, the vinyl is in Near Mint rcondition KAOS1)
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on April 6, 2026 at 1:50 pmPINK FLOYD More (1978 UK fifth issue of the 1969 13-track stereo LP on the two EMI box logo label with 'EMI Records' perimeter text, a fantastic soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's exploration of drug addiction on the Balearic Island of Ibiza, starring Mimsy Farmer & Klaus Grunberg. Comes housed in its front laminated picture sleeve with East facing couple on the back. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl is Excellent with light play SCX6346)
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 2nd - Complete - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $165.00, €143.75 (New Item) (arrived 03-Apr-2026 16:00)
on April 6, 2026 at 1:50 pmPINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here (Classic 1975 UK second press 5-track LP with 'Waters' label credit for Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part V, complete with round cornered illustrated lyric inner, glossy postcard with serrated edges & picture sleevestill in the opened black stickered shrinkwrap. The sleeve is graded VG showing some curvature with the delicate price-stickered black shrink revealing a split along the side whilst the vinyl is clean & grades VG+/EX- with a few faint paper hairlines not affecting play SHVL814) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $52.80, €46.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Apr-2026 16:00)
on April 6, 2026 at 1:50 pmPINK FLOYD A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987 UK 11-track LP with picture labels, the group's first album after the departure of Roger Waters, complete with the illustrated lyric inner. The gatefold picture sleeve is Excellent with a few light paper marks & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with few signs of play EMD1003)
- Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $52.80, €46.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Apr-2026 11:14)on April 6, 2026 at 1:50 pm
PINK FLOYD A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987 UK 11-track LP with picture labels, the group's first album after the departure of Roger Waters, complete with the illustrated lyric inner. The gatefold picture sleeve is Excellent with a few light paper marks & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with few signs of play EMD1003)
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