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“When you start Like a Prayer, the guitar that you hear before the door slams, that’s Prince”: How Madonna transitioned from pop to the profound with a Vatican-enraging classic

Like a Prayer saw Madonna ascend on both a thematic and musical level, but its provocative video pushed the buttons of the devout

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From Vindaloo to AI hellscapes: the unofficial World Cup songs are coming

In today’s Football Daily: Fat Les, Diego Maradona’s childhood home and World Cup heartbreak for Italy

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“We knew we were messing with prog royalty. It could have been like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa”: Welsh duo covered Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield and others on their latest side-project album. They think they’ve got away with it

Their third release, partly inspired by the album-sleeve scenery around them, features a long list of impressive guests. They’re hoping someone will accuse them of “drowning in a sea of pretentiousness” again

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“I got a phone call from L.A. It’s David going, ‘We’re putting Pink Floyd back together. Would you be interested and available?’” Why David Gilmour's go-to bassist for the past four decades very nearly didn't get the gig

Guy Pratt – whose résumé includes Roxy Music, Madonna and Michael Jackson, to name a mere few – recalls his awkward first meeting with the Pink Floyd guitarist

Guitar World

“It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell

Pink Floyd explored the theme of communication on 1994 album The Division Bell – despite their infamous communication issues

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“For Pink Floyd songs, David is happiest when I play an old Fender with a pick”: Session legend Guy Pratt on the Jazz Bass he bought from John Entwistle and how he conjured a “massive octave-pedal freakout” with Madonna

In addition to his main gig with David Gilmour, Guy Pratt has played bass on some monster hits, including Madonna’s Like a Prayer and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song

Guitar World

"I did start by saying: 'Do we need another guitar solo here?'" David Gilmour on boomer fortune and the making of Luck And Strange

For Luck And Strange David Gilmour assembled a team that produced "the best album I've made since The Dark Side Of The Moon"

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“Now I can look back on what was probably the most painful year of my life as a positive experience”: How the loss of a pet and a health scare brought Pure Reason Revolution back to the studio

Jon Courtney had to deal with writer’s block and line-up issues before securing Pink Floyd collaborator Guy Pratt for new album Coming Up To Consciousness

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“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

Guitar World

“Every time my parents went out, Supper’s Ready went on the turntable so I could listen uninterrupted”: Long before Gary Kemp joined Nick Mason’s band, he ensured prog infiltrated Spandau Ballet

Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd were the guitarist’s early purchases – making more sense of his presence in Saucerful Of Secrets than it may have seemed

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David Gilmour dazzles on the opening night of his tour in Rome: the first review!

David Gilmour unleashes Pink Floyd-heavy set to get the ball rolling on his Luck And Strange world tour at Rome's Circo Massimo

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“Raw and confessional – but their musical approach soothes the barbs of the subject matter”: Pure Reason Revolution’s Coming Up To Consciousness

Sixth album examines our final destination and demonstrates there’s no rule book for grieving

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Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt features on poignant new Pure Reason Revolution single Betrayal

UK prog quartet Pure Reason Revolution will release new album Coming Up To Consciousness in September

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“He’s so playful and cheeky… nothing he ever does sounds muso. I recognise the punk-rock chancer that I am in his playing”: What Guy Pratt learned from Tony Levin

Pink Floyd and Saucerful of Secrets bassist hails his friend and counterpart for inspired work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and much more

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"Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job

It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

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"I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist

Warning: Contains spoilers

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“Sometimes, it out-earns the entire Blur catalogue”: Blur bassist Alex James on making Fat Les’ enduring football classic Vindaloo

The Blur man is set for the song's popularity to be reignited ahead of the Euros

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David Gilmour's prestige venue Luck and Strange tour now includes his first US dates in 8 years

Stellar live band includes Greg Philinganes on keys, Guy Pratt on bass and Adam Betts on drums

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"When thousands have been killed and millions have fled their homes, moaning about the absence of a band member who left 37 years ago is churlish at best." How Pink Floyd surprised the rock world with Ukraine charity single Hey Hey Rise Up

The inside story of Pink Floyd's first new original music since 1994’s The Division Bell in aid of Ukraine

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“Guy Pratt has got such flair for bringing melody to a bassline”: Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the making of Murder On The Dancefloor, the Saltburn song that’s back in the Top 10 after 22 years

“It’s actually a weird song because it sort of has two verses and an A chorus and a B chorus. It’s quite an odd little structure”

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“I’m not going to say it’s a masterpiece, but it is a beautiful and a totally worthwhile entry in the Pink Floyd canon”: The highs and lows of Richard Wright’s limited solo work

One of the quietest ‘quiet ones’ in music released just two solo albums and one collaboration, preferring to go sailing instead – and it’s unlikely there’s more to be found

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“We’ve had a few Floyd moments… we got a giant ghetto blaster on a boat and parked it in the harbour… we closed down an airport for six hours!” The Orb were prog all along

Accidental albums with David Gilmour and Robert Fripp aren’t the only connections Alex Paterson’s psychedelic electronic group have with the progressive genre

Guitar World

Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino”

The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs

The Guardian - UK

Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

Rourke’s propulsive basslines worked in perfect tandem with Johnny Marr’s guitar parts to create the Smiths’ singular sound

Guitar World

Kate Bush on John Giblin: “We’ve all lost a great man and an unmatchable musician”

Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Guy Pratt and many more pay tribute to bassist John Giblin

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