Pink Floyd's 'The Endless River' Release Date: Band's First New Album in 20 Years Drops in October
The Rolling Stones. The Beatles. Pink Floyd. These are some of arguably the greatest bands of all time. But up until this year, only one of them was still active.
The Stones released a live album just last year and a studio album in 2005. The Beatles, well, let's just say they've been dormant for an entirety now, broken up by death, old age and Yoko Ono.
But the Brits wouldn't let another year go by without one of their homegrown talents, Pink Floyd, releasing a new album. Coming out of a self-imposed hiatus put in place since 2005 and before that 1995, guitarist and singer David Gilmour and Co. are back. And not only have they resumed playing their old music, but a "new" album is on the way as well.
The album is called "The Endless River." But much of the content isn't necessarily new but is unreleased music from Pink Floyd's early to mid-1990s recording session for their previous album "The Division Bell."
Gilmour's wife Polly Samson first broke the news of the new album via Twitter this past Saturday. Samson called the new album deceased Pink Floyd songwriter Rick Wright's "swansong." He passed away in 2008.
But a plethora of information was later released by Durga McBroom-Hudson, a touring, non-original lineup member of Pink Floyd, on Facebook.
"The recording did start during the Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled 'The Big Spliff' that [Pink Floyd drummer] Nick Mason spoke about). Which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then," she wrote Sunday. "It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks. David then expanded on my backing vocals and has done a lead on at least one of them."
Also, Roger Waters, the band's co-founder likely won't appear on the album. Gilmour and Waters are still embroiled in their legendary feud, stemming at least from the early 1970s and boiling over when the latter left altogether in '83. They and haven't fully reconciled since.
And the series of one-and-done performances over the past 10 years likely hasn't mended all the wounds apparently. But since the content of "The Endless River" itself is largely derived for early to mid-1990s recording sessions, Waters wouldn't have had much of a chance to appear in any of the new songs anyways.
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