Mark Ellen interviews Waters and Mason in this morning’s Times to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary, and reveals a blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former Regents Street Polytechnic.
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Mr Bargepole, is the article worth buying the paper for?
only if you’re interested in the other sections too.
The puzzle sections good on Saturdays…
The article? Nah. Some nice prose from Ello but spoilt by Roger Waters pontifications
There was a time that I would have bought it automatically: too many disappointments. Even Mojo/Uncut articles on PF are a bit repetitive these days….
Disappointed this wasn’t about Keith.
The article is nothing great. One thing that RW gets wrong: the money made by record companies before downloading was more than it is after; middle-manager coke habits and lkear jets were less likely when they stopped being able to sell back catalogue at £15 a pop. I dare say the Floyd did well out of this, seeing their peak was before the emergence of MP3s.
But there is a good argument for saying “The Wall” should have been “The Screen”.
Tee hee! Saying Floyd peaked before MP3 is like saying Napoleon peaked before Concorde.
(I know you mean sales peak, but I’m a bit of a dick..)
Let me declare my hand. I’m not a Floyd lover.
Growing up I wanted to like them, and wanted to look like Gilmour and Waters, and listened to lots of their stuff but time and again I found the music peculiarly cold and unengaging.
While most of my school friends and the wider populace went crazy for DOTSM, once again, I remained resolutely unmoved. Preferring, at the time, and to be frank, still, the soulful rock of Bad Company and The Doobie Brothers “The Captain And Me” .
So it continued through Wish….and up to The Wall which I thought was monumentally silly. I have little doubt that Another Brick In The Wall is the worst song in the history of mankind with the possible exception of Dire Straits Money For Nothing or Lionel Richie’s All Night Long.
Anyway, I stopped trying to like them long ago although I still admire Waters’ orneriness and hope I look as good at 70. If I make it that far.
As for Mark Ellen, he clearly is a hero to many and adds greatly to the gaiety of the nation and while I find his TV and Radio appearances entertaining, I find him distinctly fluffy as a writer.
I read the article and guess should not have been surprised to find the combination of a subject I can’t quite warm to described in candy floss prose a less than compelling proposition.
I’ll be off then. Taking my sourpussery with me. Apols.