- Title: Pink Floyd talk new exhibition, slam Trump's wall
- Date: 16th February 2017
- Summary: 'JUGBAND BLUES' ONSCREEN PLAYING DURING NEWS CONFERENCE
- Embargoed: 2nd March 2017 17:42
- Keywords: Pink Floyd exhibition music Roger Waters
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK / UNIDENTIFIED
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK / UNIDENTIFIED
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Music
- Reuters ID: LVA00363RUNA1
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- Story Text: Founding members of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason and Roger Waters, made a rare appearance together in London on Thursday (February 16) to promote an upcoming exhibition celebrating the British band's 50 years in music.
'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' is due to open on May 13 at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The venue previously hosted a David Bowie retrospective which has proved an influence for the new exhibition.
Fans will get to see a display showing off the band's unique music, live performance and artwork from their earliest beginnings in the 1960s music scene through multimillion selling albums including 'The Dark Side of The Moon' and 'The Wall'.
"I think what they will get from what I have seen is a real sense of the scale of some of the live work that we did, some of theatrics that we developed over the years from the early 70's through to 'The Wall', which is cool. Hopefully there's personal memorabilia that people are interested in because they're interested in the history of it," Waters told Reuters.
More than 350 artefacts are due to go on display, including letters, sketches and handwritten lyrics.
Mason said he felt the exhibition provides him with the ability to honour others who helped make the band globally popular and fulfil their artistic vision.
"A little bit, not to a huge extent because I've spent a lot of the last ten years working with archiving with movie footage and photographs and they tend to constantly bring things up but I think one of the nice things about it is the business of and the opportunity almost to recognise some of the people we've worked with, because what you realise is that it's literally hundreds and hundreds of people who've worked with us as sound engineers or road crew, technicians, inventors or graphics or whatever and to go 'we got through a lot of work by getting help from these people'. That's a really nice aspect of it," said Mason.
Pink Floyd were widely known for their experimental, politically conscious music, with anti-authoritarian 1979 hit album 'The Wall' proving to be one of the band's most popular works.
"The building of walls between nations and between religions and between races and different groups of people with different beliefs is invariably counterproductive. And that we need to, we should be past a time when we're wanting to make enemies of the other. Unfortunately we're not because there's a very efficient method and we know now from history it's a very good way of maintaining control of people is by pointing to somebody else and saying there's the enemy, you do what you're told and I'll keep you safe from them and so the 'us and them' mentality is very convenient for potential demagogues and despots to employ which is what Trump is doing," said Waters, commenting on President Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between Mexico and the United States.
'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' will run until October 1. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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