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Pink Floyd Exhibition in Italy Postponed

The official Pink Floyd Exhibition Their Mortal Remains, which was due to start on 18th September 2014, has been postponed due to production delays. This will no doubt cause much disruption to many fans who have made plans to travel to Italy from around the world and have booked flights and hotels etcetera. According to the Italian promoters of the event Evolve Devolve, “building the complex Exhibition to the required specification has made it impossible to make the opening date”. Tickets have been taken off sale for the time being whilst new dates are announced. Alternatively, fans can have their tickets refunded at the point of purchase. Please stay tuned for when the new dates are announced and perhaps read the official announcement on Pink Floyd’s Facebook page. I imagine the decision was not taken lightly given the impact this will have on thousands of people who have booked all...

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Pink Floyd Stories and Secrets, Italian Fan Convention

In addition to the official Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains in Sep-Oct 2014, Italy is also host to an un-official fan convention called Pink Floyd Stories and Secrets on 29-30 March 2014. Some of the world’s greatest rarities of the group will be exhibited for the first time, featuring hundreds of original historical documents relating to the band. In the luxurious salons of the Hotel Atlantic Borgaro near Turin, the exhibit will range from the hardest to find posters to vintage handbills, from the tour programs to the most amazing memorabilia up to an accurate selection of the rarest records from the esteemed private collection of the Lunatics, the very active club consisting of five among the most important Pink Floyd historians and collectors (Nino Gatti, Stefano Girolami, Danilo Steffanina, Stefano Mrpinky Tarquini and Riccardo Verani) who in October 2012 published the bestselling book “Pink Floyd Stories and Secrets” published...

Pink Floyd Exhibition, Milan, Italy 2014 - Their Mortal Remains

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Tickets for The Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains, Milan, Italy

Tickets for The Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains will be available from Thursday 27th February 2014 from the Official Pink Floyd Exhibition website here. The 4 week long exhibition residency will be held at Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, Milan in Italy. The event will launch on Friday 19th September 2014 and run for 4 weeks until Sunday 19th October 2014 with tickets costing a very reasonable €15 euros. Aubrey “Po” Powell, from Hipgnosis who created many of Pink Floyd’s iconic album covers, is the curator of the event and creative director. There is also involvement from stage set designers Stufish who designed many of Pink Floyd’s stage sets. Pink Floyd Exhibition occupies some 2500 square metres and contains over 300 objects especially flown in from all over the world, some of which are the personal property of the band. The exhibition is a celebration of nearly 5...

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Roger Waters Awarded A University Degree – See Pictures

A Doctorate of Humane Letters Honoris Causa Degree was awarded on the 18th of February 2014 to Roger Waters by The American University of Rome. Waters, who was the co-founder, lyricist, and conceptual leader of world famous progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and champion of veteran causes and human rights, was awarded for his contribution to music and for his social activism around the globe. Accompanied by his wife Laurie Durning and by war veteran and close friend Harry Shindler, Waters was honored his degree before an intimate group of AUR students, veterans, faculty, and staff at the Istituto Italiano Studi Germanici in Rome following attendance of the Anzio commemoration ceremonies for the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings where his father, Eric Fletcher Waters of the 8th Royal Fusiliers, died as he fought to repel a German counter-attack in a battle that changed the course of the Second World War.  Mr....

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Roger Waters, Two Days To Remember

ROGER WATERS, TWO DAYS TO REMEMBER. (by The Lunatics) A dip in the memory full of excitement was experienced by Roger Waters at Anzio between 17 and 18 February, on the occasion of the initiatives organized for the 70 years since the Allied Landings, who took the title “If you want peace prepare the Peace.” On Monday afternoon, away from prying eyes, the former Pink Floyd bassist went to the ditch of Moletta, the place where his father Eric Fletcher was victim of the Germans that famous morning of 18 February 1944. Waters has inaugurated a monument of circular shape, in whose center he placed a young olive tree. Along with him stood the mayor of Aprilia and some Italian and foreign military authorities, notably his two “angels”, the veteran Harry Shindler and publisher Emidio Giovannozzi, who, through their research, have shed light on the last hours of life of his...

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Roger Waters Unveils Memorial To Late Father in Italy

Roger Waters has unveiled a memorial in Italy to his late father and other soldiers who were killed in an historic battle during World War Two. The memorial takes the form of a newly-erected white marble obelisk in the town of Aprilia south of Rome. At 11:30am on 18th February 1944, Royal Fusiller Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters was killed by the Germans in a ditch near the Italian town of Aprilla. Eric was fighting with comrades in Z Company which is part of the 8th Battalion force of the British Army. Roger Waters, who would go on to so-found Pink Floyd, was just a baby at the time and never got to see his father. Roger would make references to his late father in albums such as The Wall and The Final Cut. “It is 70 years to the day since my father died here and I have finally come to the...