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Roger Waters

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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English songwriter, singer, bassist, and composer. [1]

229 relations: A Momentary Lapse of Reason, A Saucerful of Secrets, Abraham Foxman, Alexander Borodin, AllMusic, American Express, Ampeg, Amused to Death, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Andrew King (music manager), Animals (Pink Floyd album), Anti-Defamation League, Aprilia, Lazio, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Art rock, Arthur Bloom, Ashdown Engineering, Associated Press, Astoria (recording studio), Atheism, Ça Ira (opera), Étienne Roda-Gil, Battle of Anzio, Bauer Media Group, BBC Radio 4, Berlin Wall, Billboard (magazine), Blackhill Enterprises, Blues rock, Bob Ezrin, Bob Klose, Bon Jovi, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, Brandenburg Gate, Breathe (Pink Floyd song), Bring the Boys Back Home, British Phonographic Industry, Bryan Adams, Bryn Terfel, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Capitol Records, Carolyne Christie, Cassino War Cemetery, Chelsea Manning, Chorus effect, Citibank, CNN, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, ..., Coal mining, Columbia Records, Comfortably Numb, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Communist Party of Great Britain, Concept album, Conn-Selmer, Conscientious objector, Conservative Party (UK), Corporal Clegg, Countryside Alliance, Cricket, Cyndi Lauper, David Fricke, David Gilmour, David Sanborn, Delay (audio effect), Desert Island Discs, Desert Trip, EMS VCS 3, Enlargement of the European Union, Eric Clapton, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Fender Precision Bass, Free Four, French Revolution, Gaza Freedom March, Gerald Scarfe, Glastonbury Festival, Grand Harbour, Great Bookham, Gulf War, Guy Carawan, Haaretz, Harry Waters, Harvest Records, Höfner, Hector Berlioz, High Court of Justice, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Hiwatt, Howard Stern, Hunting Act 2004, In the Flesh (Roger Waters tour), In the Flesh – Live, In the Flesh?, Is This the Life We Really Want?, Israeli West Bank barrier, Jeff Beck, Joni Mitchell, Judith Trim, Kurt Loder, Labour Party (UK), Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland, Leonard Cheshire, Libretto, List of highest-grossing concert tours, Live 8, Live Earth concert, New Jersey, Long Island, Lucius (band), Madison Square Garden, Mainstream Rock (chart), Malaria, Malta, Marc Brickman, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Blake (writer), Mark Fenwick, Marketwired, Millennium Promise, Miramax, Money (Pink Floyd song), Mother (Pink Floyd song), My Morning Jacket, NBC, Neil Postman, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, Nick Mason, Nigel Godrich, NME, Obscured by Clouds, On the Run (instrumental), One of These Days (instrumental), Opera, Outside the Wall (song), Ovation Guitar Company, Overture, Pacifism, Panning (audio), Patrick Leonard, Paul Carrack, Paul Groves (tenor), Pete Seeger, Pete Townshend, Peter Jenner, Phaser (effect), Pigs on the Wing, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Potsdamer Platz, Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Quadraphonic sound, Radio K.A.O.S., Radiohead, Raymond Briggs, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Richard Wright (musician), Rickenbacker 4001, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, RotoSound, Royal Fusiliers, Salon (website), Scorpions (band), Sheep (song), Simon Wiesenthal Center, Sinéad O'Connor, Sony Music, Southampton Dock, Speak to Me, Spin (magazine), Steve O'Rourke, Surrey, Syd Barrett, Teahouse, The Bleeding Heart Band, The Blitz, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Dark Side of the Moon Live, The Division Bell, The Endless River, The Final Cut (album), The Fletcher Memorial Home, The Guardian, The Independent, The Jerusalem Post, The Last Mimzy, The O2 Arena, The Perse School, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (tour), The Wall, The Wall Live (2010–13), The Wall Tour (1980–81), The Who, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Time (Pink Floyd song), To Know Him Is to Love Him, Tremolo, Tsunami, UK Music Hall of Fame, Ummagumma, University of Westminster, Us and Them (song), Valletta, Van Morrison, Viagogo, Victory over Japan Day, Watkins Electric Music, We Shall Overcome, Welcome to the Machine, What God Wants, Part I, When the Tigers Broke Free, When the Wind Blows (1986 film), When the Wind Blows (comics), Wired (magazine), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song), World War II, Ying Huang (soprano), 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 2008 Mumbai attacks, 7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron. Expand index (179 more) »

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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A Saucerful of Secrets

A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on Monday, 01 July 1968 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom (following adverts in Melody Maker giving that date) and released on 27 July 1968 in the United States by Tower Records.

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Abraham Foxman

Abraham Henry Foxman (born May 1, 1940) is an American lawyer and activist.

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (a; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Express

The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City.

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Ampeg

Ampeg is a manufacturer of musical instruments, especially the musical instrument amplifier, established by Everett Hull and Stanley Michaels in 1946.

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Amused to Death

Amused to Death is the third studio album by English musician Roger Waters.

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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman.

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Andrew King (music manager)

Andrew King (born 1942) is a music manager, formerly for Blackhill Enterprises, where he co-managed Pink Floyd and others.

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Animals (Pink Floyd album)

Animals is the tenth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL; formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith) is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States.

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Aprilia, Lazio

Aprilia is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Latina, now incorporated in the conurbation of Rome, in the Lazio region of central Italy.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Arthur Bloom

Arthur Bloom is an American composer and pianist, and the founder and director of MusiCorps.

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Ashdown Engineering

Ashdown Engineering is a British manufacturer of instrument amplifiers, particularly for bass and acoustic guitars.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Astoria (recording studio)

Astoria is a grand houseboat, built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno and adapted as a recording studio in the 1980s by its new owner, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Ça Ira (opera)

Ça Ira (French for "It'll be fine", subtitled "There is Hope") is the fourth studio album by Roger Waters.

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Étienne Roda-Gil

Étienne Roda-Gil (1 August 1941 in Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne, France – 31 May 2004 in Paris) was a songwriter and screenwriter.

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Battle of Anzio

The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome).

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blackhill Enterprises

Blackhill Enterprises was a rock music management company, founded as a partnership by the four original members of Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright), with Peter Jenner and Andrew King.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Bob Ezrin

Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin (born March 25, 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, and Phish.

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Bob Klose

Rado Robert Garcia Klose (professionally known as Bob Klose in the 1960s and Rado Klose more recently) is an English musician, photographer and printmaker.

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (also known as the BDS Movement) is a global campaign promoting various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets what the campaign describes as " obligations under international law", defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promotion of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

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Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after the (temporarily) successful restoration of order during the early Batavian Revolution.

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Breathe (Pink Floyd song)

"Breathe" (sometimes called "Breathe (In The Air)") is a song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

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Bring the Boys Back Home

"Bring the Boys Back Home" is a song from the Pink Floyd album, The Wall.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist.

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Bryn Terfel

Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (born 9 November 1965) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridgeshire High School for Boys

The Cambridgeshire High School for Boys was founded as the Cambridge and County School for Boys in Cambridge, England, in 1900.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carolyne Christie

Carolyne Anne Christie (born 27 December 1946) is a member of the English aristocracy, known for having been married to Rock Scully, manager of the Grateful Dead, and later to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, who wrote songs about her.

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Cassino War Cemetery

The Cassino War Cemetery is a war grave cemetery in the commune of Cassino, Province of Frosinone, south-east of Rome, Italy.

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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist, whistleblower, politician, and former United States Army soldier.

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Chorus effect

In music, a chorus effect (sometimes chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches converge and are perceived as one.

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Citibank

Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Comfortably Numb

"Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their eleventh album, The Wall (1979).

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Conn-Selmer

Conn-Selmer, Inc. is an American manufacturer of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Corporal Clegg

"Corporal Clegg" is a song by the English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).

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Countryside Alliance

The Countryside Alliance (CA) is a British organisation promoting issues relating to the countryside such as farming, rural services, small businesses and country sports, aiming to "Give Rural Britain a voice".

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist.

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David Fricke

David Fricke (born June 4, 1952) is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Delay (audio effect)

Delay is an audio effect and an effects unit which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Desert Trip

Desert Trip was a six-day music festival that took place on October 7–9 and 14–16, 2016, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, United States.

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EMS VCS 3

The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3) is a portable analog synthesiser with a flexible semi-modular voice architecture, by Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited (EMS) in 1969.

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Enlargement of the European Union

The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.

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Fender Precision Bass

The Precision Bass (often shortened to "P-Bass") is a bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Free Four

"Free Four" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, written by Roger Waters and released on the band's 1972 album Obscured by Clouds.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gaza Freedom March

Gaza Freedom March was a non-violent political march in 2009 to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip, planned to depart on 31 December from Izbet Abed Rabbo, an area devastated during Operation Cast Lead, and head towards Erez, the crossing point to Israel at the northern end of the Gaza Strip.

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Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Grand Harbour

The Grand Harbour (il-Port il-Kbir), also known as the Port of Valletta, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta.

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Great Bookham

Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-rural spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War (2 August 199028 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 199017 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 199128 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

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Guy Carawan

Guy Hughes Carawan, Jr. (July 27, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist.

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Haaretz

Haaretz (הארץ) (lit. "The Land ", originally Ḥadashot Ha'aretz – חדשות הארץ, – "News of the Land ") is an Israeli newspaper.

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Harry Waters

Harry William Waters (born 16 November 1976) is a British piano and Hammond organ player, associated with progressive rock and jazz.

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Harvest Records

Harvest Records is a British record label belonging to Capitol Music Group, originally created by EMI, active from 1969 to present.

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Höfner

Karl Höfner GmbH & Co.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Hills Road Sixth Form College

Hills Road Sixth Form College (commonly referred to as HRSFC, Hills Road or just Hills) is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England, providing full-time A-level courses for approximately 2,400 sixth form students from the surrounding area and a wide variety of courses to around 4,000 part-time students of all ages in the adult education programme, held as daytime and evening classes.

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Hiwatt

Hiwatt is a British company who manufactures amplifiers for electric guitars and electric basses.

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Howard Stern

Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer.

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Hunting Act 2004

The Hunting Act 2004 (c 37) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which bans the hunting of wild mammals (notably foxes, deer, hares and mink) with dogs in England and Wales; the Act does not cover the use of dogs in the process of flushing out an unidentified wild mammal, nor does it affect drag hunting, where hounds are trained to follow an artificial scent.

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In the Flesh (Roger Waters tour)

In The Flesh was a series of worldwide concert tours by Roger Waters that spanned three individual tours over the course of three years (1999, 2000, and 2002).

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In the Flesh – Live

In the Flesh – Live is a two-disc live album that captures performances from Roger Waters' three-year In the Flesh tour.

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In the Flesh?

"In the Flesh?" (working title, "The Show?") is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their 1979 album, The Wall.

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Is This the Life We Really Want?

Is This the Life We Really Want? is the fifth solo album by the English rock musician Roger Waters, released on 2 June 2017 by Columbia Records.

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Israeli West Bank barrier

The Israeli West Bank barrier or wall (for further names see here) is a separation barrier in the West Bank or along the Green Line.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Judith Trim

Judith Trim (11 October 1943 – 9 January 2001, also known as Jude or Judy, and for a while by her first married name, as Jude Waters) was an English studio potter.

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Kurt Loder

Kurtis "Kurt" Loder (born May 5, 1945) is an American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland

Lawrence Aldred Mervyn Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland (12 November 1908 – 5 October 1989) was a lawn tennis player of some note in the 1940s, known before 1971 as the Earl of Ronaldshay.

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Leonard Cheshire

Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force pilot, group captain, and philanthropist during World War II.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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List of highest-grossing concert tours

This is an incomplete list of the highest-grossing concert tours.

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Live 8

Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa.

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Live Earth concert, New Jersey

The Live Earth concert for North America was held at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States (near New York City) on July 7, 2007.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lucius (band)

Lucius is a four-piece indie pop band that got its start in Brooklyn, New York.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine which ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marc Brickman

Marc Brickman (born June 15, 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a director, producer, lighting designer and production designer.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Mark Blake (writer)

Mark Blake is a music journalist and author.

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Mark Fenwick

Mark Anthony Fenwick (born May 1948) is a British businessman, the fifth generation of his family to run the Fenwick department store chain founded in 1882.

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Marketwired

Marketwired is a press release distribution service headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Millennium Promise

Millennium Promise, or The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., is a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, dedicated to ending extreme poverty within our lifetime.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Money (Pink Floyd song)

"Money" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

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Mother (Pink Floyd song)

"Mother" is a song by Pink Floyd.

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My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket is an American rock band formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1998.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Postman

Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known for his seventeen books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), ''Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology'' (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1994) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).

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Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Nick Mason

Nicholas Berkeley Mason (born 27 January 1944) is an English drummer, best known as a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Nigel Godrich

Nigel Timothy Godrich (born 28 February 1971) is an English record producer, recording engineer and musician.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Obscured by Clouds

Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder.

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On the Run (instrumental)

"On the Run" is the third track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.

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One of These Days (instrumental)

"One of These Days" is the opening track from Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Outside the Wall (song)

"Outside the Wall" (working titles "Bleeding Hearts", "The Buskers") is a song written by Roger Waters.

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Ovation Guitar Company

The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of guitars.

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Overture

Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Panning (audio)

Panning is the distribution of a sound signal (either monaural or stereophonic pairs) into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field determined by a pan control setting.

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Patrick Leonard

Patrick Ray Leonard (born March 14, 1956) is an American songwriter, keyboardist, film composer, and music producer, best known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna.

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Paul Carrack

Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands.

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Paul Groves (tenor)

Paul Groves (born November 24, 1964 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American operatic tenor.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Peter Jenner

Peter Jenner (born 1943) is a British music manager and a record producer.

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Phaser (effect)

A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum.

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Pigs on the Wing

"Pigs on the Wing" is a two-part song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album Animals, opening and closing the album.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pink Floyd – The Wall

Pink Floyd – The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker with animated segments by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and is based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name.

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Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz (literally Potsdam Square) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Quadraphonic sound

Quadraphonic (or Quadrophonic and sometimes Quadrasonic) sound – equivalent to what is now called 4.0 surround sound – uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are (wholly or in part) independent of one another.

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Radio K.A.O.S.

Radio K.A.O.S. is the second solo studio album by English rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Richard Wright (musician)

Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English musician, composer, singer, and songwriter.

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Rickenbacker 4001

The Rickenbacker 4001 is a bass guitar that was manufactured by Rickenbacker as a two-pickup "deluxe" version of their first production bass, the single-pickup model 4000.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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RotoSound

RotoSound is a British guitar and bass string manufacturing company based in England.

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Royal Fusiliers

The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Scorpions (band)

Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker.

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Sheep (song)

"Sheep" is a song by English band Pink Floyd, released on the album Animals in 1977.

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Simon Wiesenthal Center

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (often abbreviated SWC), with headquarters in Los Angeles, California, United States, was established in 1977 and named for Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Magda Davitt (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Southampton Dock

"Southampton Dock" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut.

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Speak to Me

"Speak to Me" is the first track on British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon, on which it forms an overture.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Steve O'Rourke

Steve O'Rourke (–) became the manager of the influential British rock band Pink Floyd after the departure of Syd Barrett in 1968.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Teahouse

A teahouse is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments.

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The Bleeding Heart Band

The Bleeding Heart Band was the name Roger Waters gave his backing band for a brief period of his post-Pink Floyd solo career.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Dark Side of the Moon

The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records.

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The Dark Side of the Moon Live

The Dark Side of the Moon Live was a worldwide concert tour by Roger Waters.

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The Division Bell

The Division Bell is the fourteenth album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States.

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The Endless River

The Endless River is the fifteenth and final studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

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The Final Cut (album)

The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and on 2 April by Columbia Records in the United States.

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The Fletcher Memorial Home

"The Fletcher Memorial Home" is a song by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

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The Last Mimzy

The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by Robert Shaye and loosely adapted from the 1943 science fiction short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (the pseudonym of husband-and-wife team Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore).

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The O2 Arena

The O2 Arena (temporarily the sponsor-neutral "North Greenwich Arena", during the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the centre of The O2 entertainment complex on the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London.

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The Perse School

The Perse Upper School is a fee-charging, academically selective, independent secondary co-educational day school in Cambridge, England.

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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership.

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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is the first solo album by Roger Waters; it was released in 1984, the year before Waters announced his departure from Pink Floyd.

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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (tour)

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking was the first solo concert tour by Roger Waters.

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The Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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The Wall Live (2010–13)

The Wall Live was a worldwide concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd.

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The Wall Tour (1980–81)

The Wall Tour was a concert tour by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd throughout 1980–1981 in support of their concept album The Wall.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

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Time (Pink Floyd song)

"Time" is a song by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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To Know Him Is to Love Him

"To Know Him Is to Love Him" is a song written by Phil Spector, inspired by words on his father's tombstone, "To Know Him Was To Love Him." It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member,.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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UK Music Hall of Fame

The UK Music Hall of Fame was an awards ceremony to honour musicians, of any nationality, for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom.

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Ummagumma

Ummagumma is the fourth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

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University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public university in London, United Kingdom.

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Us and Them (song)

"Us and Them" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

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Valletta

Valletta is the capital city of Malta, colloquially known as "Il-Belt" (lit. "The City") in Maltese.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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Viagogo

Viagogo (stylised as lowercase viagogo) is an online ticket marketplace for ticket resale.

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Victory over Japan Day

Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.

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Watkins Electric Music

Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British company known for manufacturing musical instruments, guitar, bass and PA amplification and the CopiCat tape echo machine.

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We Shall Overcome

"We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Welcome to the Machine

"Welcome to the Machine" is the second song on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

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What God Wants, Part I

"What God Wants, Part I" is the first song in a series of songs written and released by former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters on his third solo album, Amused to Death.

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When the Tigers Broke Free

"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters, describing the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, in the Battle of Anzio (codenamed Operation Shingle) during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.

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When the Wind Blows (1986 film)

When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' comic book of the same name.

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When the Wind Blows (comics)

When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)

Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)

"Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Ying Huang (soprano)

Ying Huang is a Chinese operatic soprano.

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12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief

12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief was a benefit concert that took place on December 12, 2012, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War (also called Operation Iraqi Freedom).

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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2008 Mumbai attacks

The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.

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7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron

The 7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron is part of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

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References

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