The official line is that it’s intended as a belated tribute to Richard Wright, the keyboard player who died of cancer in 2008. But why? And why now? There has to be a reason, and it’s obviously not the one that usually motivates bands of a certain vintage to spiff up their studio outtakes, Pink Floyd belonging in the tiny band of artists who clearly never have to do anything for the money. On the other hand, it sounds more like Pink Floyd – or at least the Pink Floyd who sold 50m copies of The Dark Side of the Moon – than any new album bearing their name in the past 35 years. It was a perfectly Pink Floydish way to end Pink Floyd: ostensibly an act of reconciliation and closure after years of rancour, it still revealed a great deal about the icy British reserve that shrouded the band’s career.Īnd yet here we are, a decade on, faced with The Endless River, a “new” Pink Floyd album that, on the one hand, isn’t new at all – it’s based on 20-year-old outtakes from sessions for their second post-Roger Waters album, The Division Bell. M ost observers assumed the story of Pink Floyd had ended nine years ago, on the Live 8 stage in Hyde Park, with an awkward group hug that at least one band member had to be visibly coerced into joining.
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