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Roger Waters’ 2012 “The Wall Live” Tour kicks off tomorrow (1/27/12) in Perth, Australia. Here’s a sneak peak behind the next production of the 2012 “The Wall Live” tour.

Even if you saw the show in 2010 or 2011, it’s getting better and better as more improvements and additions are made, so it’s definitely worth seeing again in 2012 if you can make it!

This morning, Roger Waters stopped by the Howard Stern show, where he announced among other things that he will be playing his “The Wall” show at Yankee Stadium in New York on July 6th. This video is a small teaser of the show, in which they appeared to talk about some pretty fun and interesting topics.
Possibly NSFW Audio. Click here for the full audio.

We were contacted by Billboard letting us know that Roger Waters ‘The Wall Live’ Tour was in the top 5 of Billboard’s Top 25 Tours of 2011.

Here are the numbers:

Total Gross: $149,904,965
Total Attendance: 1,362,993
Number of Shows: 92
Number of Sell-Outs: 92

To see the full list and exactly where he landed, visit Billboard’s website here.

Roger Waters’ latest video: “Stadium Full”.

We get lots of emails but I thought this was especially cool and worth sharing:

To whom it may concern (especially the members of the Rock and Roll Band “Pink Floyd”), I would like to share with you an amazing photo and person. His name is Keith, he lost his legs due to Buerger’s disease and is a bilateral below knee amputee and veteran. He is such a fan of the band he asked me to laminate t-shirts with a collage of album covers on his prosthetic limbs(see attached pic). We did this once before with The “1978 tour” logo on his legs. But these ones came out so beautiful I felt I should share them with you. I recently learned about a contest the band had where fans sent in pictures with Pink Floyd themes in order to win concert tickets. Sorry I found out late or I am sure Keith would have been in the running to win. Anyways, I think it is a wonderful tribute to the band and their influence on the world, especially Keith. I am sure the band knows how popular they are, but I doubt they realize how much they mean to someone like Keith. I hope the band actually will see this and hope it amazes them as much as it has me, and I make artificial limbs for a living!

Sincerely,
David T. Hughes, CPO
Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist

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“This Day in Pink Floyd” iPhone app:

“A Foot in the Door” Pink Floyd Best of CD:

We have 3 copies of the new official Pink Floyd iPhone app “This Day in Pink Floyd”, and 2 copies of the new Pink Floyd Best of CD “A Foot in the Door”, to give away.

All you have to do to win, is correctly answer this trivia question, taken directly from the new app’s trivia section:

Contest now closed and winners have been contacted. Congrats to the winners!

1 entry per person/household. Contest closes December 10th, 2011, at 11:59 PM PST. Winners will be announced December 11th. Your email will not be sold or shared and will only be used to contact you if you are one of the randomly drawn winners. Your email will be added to the Pink Floyd Online Newsletter mailing list, which can be opted out of any time. Privacy Policy.

Before returning to ‘The Wall,’ the classic 1979 Pink Floyd album he’ll once again revisit in concert next year, Roger Waters will take another trip down the aisle.

According to the New York Post, the singer and bassist is finally ready to swap vows with filmmaker Laurie Durning, his fiancee of seven years.

“It just seems like a good time to do it before the tour,” Durning told the Post.

This will be the fourth marriage for Waters, who resumes his Wall Live Tour in May. He has three children from his previous relationships.

Waters and Durning are said to be in the market for a new engagement ring, since the bride-to-be lost the original after the rocker proposed. She assures the Post theirs will be a “private and low-key” ceremony attended by close friends.

Here’s hoping Waters’ fourth nuptial go-round leaves him happy and satisfied — or at the very least ‘Comfortably Numb.’

Congratulations to the two!

Source: Spinner
Photo Credit: Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images

TouchTunes, the makers of the popular jukeboxes you find in bar’s and restaurant’s everywhere, have contacted us to let us know that the new Pink Floyd Best Of Album ‘A Foot in the Door’, will be prominently displayed and promoted on the home screen of TouchTunes jukeboxes worldwide.

From Touchtunes: “It’s been a great year for Pink Floyd fans! In May of 2011, the internationally celebrated English rock band announced “Why Pink Floyd…?”, a massive re-issue campaign meant to deepen and expand the band’s extraordinary musical legacy. The celebration began on September 26th with a remastered The Dark Side of the Moon, released both as a six-disc “Immersion” box set, as well as a two-disc “Experience” set and a vinyl LP. Fourteen remastered Pink Floyd albums were also released at that time, both separately and as a box set. On November 7th, Wish You Were Here will be released in five-disc and two-disc versions, along with a single-disc greatest hits collection, A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd. To wrap up the “Why Pink Floyd?” initiative, on February 27th, The Wall will appear in a seven-disc “Immersion” version and a three-disc “Experience” set.”

“As part of the worldwide celebration, TouchTunes will feature a promotion for A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd timed with the re-issues release date across digital jukeboxes worldwide.”

When asked about what will be displayed exactly, TouchTunes said: “The promotions change periodically and there are only a few albums and songs that are displayed at a time. It’s pretty exciting for groups that are promoted because it allows the album to be seen by many more people who may not have known about the release in the first place.”