Posts Tagged ‘Roger Waters’
Roger Waters’ The Wall breaks South American attendance records
Written by admin on April 28, 2012 – 9:31 am -Roger Waters’ tour of The Wall has smashed attendance records in South America, playing to over 750,000 fans during 15 open-air stadium shows in Chile, Brazil and Argentina. The nine sold-out shows at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires beat the previous five nights record held by the Rolling Stones.
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Song of the Week #95 – “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”
Written by admin on February 27, 2012 – 8:28 pm - |
To celebrate the release of the new Experience and Immersion editions of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” the band’s non-conformist anthem “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” is Song of the Week on Classic Pop Icons. |
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U2 head list of Top 25 tours of 2011
Written by admin on December 22, 2011 – 12:11 pm -| The list of top 25 most lucrative music tours of 2011 features a diverse group of artists, old and new, with multiple genres represented, including hard rock, country, rap and pop. Top of the pile is U2 with their 360° tour, which was the highest-grossing tour of all time. |
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Classic Rock Roll of Honour 2011
Written by admin on November 10, 2011 – 7:35 pm -Jeff Beck, Queen and Roger Waters were among the veteran artists honoured at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards last night. The event took place at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, and was hosted by KISS bassist, Gene Simmons.
Queen received the “Best Reissue” award for the remastered reissues of their final five albums: “The Works,” “A Kind of Magic,” “The Miracle,” “Innuendo” and “Made in Heaven.”
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Roger Waters touring “The Wall” in 2012
Written by admin on November 2, 2011 – 10:57 am -| Roger Waters is returning to North America next May to tour his 30th anniversary production of “The Wall.”
Waters originally toured “The Wall” in 1980 with Pink Floyd and then famously a decade later in Berlin to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. His new state-of-the-art production hit the road last year and has already been performed 120 times to around 1.6 million fans. |
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