Pink Floyd Keen On Playing Charity Gigs


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The last time we got to see the complete Pink Floyd grace a stage was back in 2005 for the Live 8 concert in London. Now Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says the members could reunite for several charity concerts.

I think all of us would like the idea of repeating the Live 8 concept … something that’s not necessarily for us, but do something for the right reasons and enjoy doing it,” he told BBC News.

“That’s what I’d like, and I think the others might well see eye to eye.”

The iconic rock band has sold 200 million albums worldwide with hit albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.

It seems that hope for the full band reuniting came when band mates Roger Waters and David Gilmour performed three Pink Floyd classics for the Hoping Foundation, which helps Palestinian children, in England in July. Although the two had a famous fall out way back in the 1980’s and continued with that estrangement after Live 8 Waters stated after the Hoping Foundation show that the performance was “great. End of Story. Or possibly beginning”

Mason said Live 8 provided a “template for something we would do again. I think it would be a very nice way for a band to gently move towards retirement, by doing shows absolutely for charity rather than for more income.

Pink Floyd was formed by university students Waters, Syd Barett, Mason, Richard Wright – in 1968 Gilmour hopped on board after Barret left

The band sadly lost keyboard player Richard Wright to cancer in 2006.


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