REBEAT News Roundup (August 10 – August 16)
Breaking news
In a recent interview with Classic Rock magazine, David Gilmour spoke out once and for all on the status of Pink Floyd and the possibility of a reunion: “I’m done with it. I’ve had 48 years in Pink Floyd[…] But it has run its course, we are done — and it would be fakery to go back and do it again.” Gilmour is currently getting ready to support his new solo album, Rattle That Lock, with a string of tour dates in North America. The album will be released on September 18.
Albums, singles, and tours
- After being out of print for 30 years,The London Symphony Orchestra’s orchestral take on the Who’s rock opera Tommy will be rereleased on September 11, both on CD and on vinyl. It is available for pre-order here.
- A John Lennon demo entitled “Now & Then” has resurfaced again on the internet. The track was originally intended to be the third release from the Anthology sessions after Lennon’s passing (“Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” being the other two releases), but it never came to fruition. In the YouTube clip posted above, however, Paul McCartney states his interest in finishing it with producer Jeff Lynne.
- Roger Waters is reportedly planning a tour for 2016, as well as writing an autobiography and releasing a solo album. He recently did an interview with Haaretz, in which he discussed some details of the upcoming album, as well as reiterating that Pink Floyd “of course” is finished for good.
Happy birthday!
- August 10 – Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers (born in 1940), Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes (1943), Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (1947)
- August 11 – Jim Kale of the Guess Who (born in 1943), Eric Carmen of the Raspberries (1949), Erik Brann of Iron Butterfly (1950)
- August 12 – Mark Knopfler (born in 1949)
- August 13 – Danny Bonaduce, actor on The Partridge Family (born in 1959)
- August 14 – Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts (born in 1940), David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash (1941), Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone (1946)
- August 15 – Pete York of Spencer Davis Group (born in 1942)
- August 16 – Julie Newmar, actress (born in 1933)
Danielle Zabielski (aka “that girl who loves the Bee Gees more than anything else in the whole wide world”) is an artist, freelancer, and radio producer based in Philadelphia. Art and music are the two loves of her life, particularly the art and music of the 1960s through ‘70s.