Monthly Archive: November 2003

Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and Jools Holland have confessed to being more nervous at receiving honours from the Queen than they were playing concerts. They received their honours on 7th November. Holland, 45, and Gilmour, 59, both said they could never have imagined their music would take them as far as Buckingham Palace. Gilmour, receiving a CBE for services to music, joked that the Queen had probably never even listened to Pink Floyd. “I...

Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the “Lethal Weapon” and “Die Hard” movies,” has died at age 55.   Kamen collapsed in his London home Tuesday of an apparent heart attack, according to his Los Angeles-based publicist, Jeff Sanderson. Kamen collaborated with a wide range of artists, from the London Philharmonic to Aerosmith, Metallica and jazz saxophonist David...

BBC4 – a British TV channel – are to broadcast a program called “DVD Collection” on Friday 21 November 2003 8.30pm-9pm, repeated 1.35am-2.05am and Saturday 22 November 7pm-7.30pm, repeated 2.40am-3.10am.. The program will analyse the recently released “Live In Pompeii – Directors Cut” DVD. BBC4 is a digital channel available for free on Sky Digital, Cable and through digital TVs/adaptors. Source: [ BBC ]