Mit Twitter postete Alan Perathoner,
Mitinhaber des „Passo Sella Dolomiti Mountain Resort“ am Sellajoch, ein Foto mit Nick Mason.

Nick Mason - drummer of @pinkfloyd on holiday in Val Gardena

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RTÉ.ie schrieb:

This year's Mountains to Sea book festival features fiction writer Polly Samson who co-wrote, with her husband David Gilmour, the lyrics to seven tracks on Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. The album went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic. Her lyrics will feature on Gilmour's next solo album.
Samson's latest novel The Kindness is published by Bloomsbury Circus. Julian's fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia who is married and eight years his senior. He is a gifted English student with a life of academia ahead. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they each give up all they have to be together.
Gilmour and Samson will be at this year's Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas (June 5-7) taking part in their first discussion about their songwriting partnership.

Polly Samson for Mountains to Sea book festival

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Picture Gallery von Getty Images

"Kindness" By Polly Samson - Book Launch Party

David Gilmour and Jeff Beck attend the launch of new book 'Kindness' by Polly Samson at the 20th Century Theatre on March 12, 2015 in London.

Sara sieht David sehr ähnlich!
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Polly Samson’s trouble and strife
Pink Floyd
Samson has written lyrics for both Pink Floyd and for Gilmour’s solo albums. His fourth is due in September; with the deadline adding a little more pressure, he’s locked in the studio. Samson aims to finish the last of the lyrics later on the day we meet.

“It’s lovely to collaborate with him after an intense time alone in a room for eight hours a day,” she says. “But I’m aware that he asks me because he hates writing lyrics – I think because he has a fully formed musical brain. On this album he’s written two songs, but it’s taken me months of sitting him down and nagging him. But I think it’s important. Like, David drives us everywhere, but our friends always remind me that I have to drive every now and then, otherwise I’ll forget how.”
Samson began writing lyrics for The Division Bell, from 1994, but it’s only now, after years of fear of “wifeism”, that she feels comfortable joining their names together professionally. “I started helping to write The Division Bell almost accidentally, when I was ill with glandular fever and he was looking after me,” she says. “He’d come home, ask me for suggestions and write them verbatim.
“At the end of it I asked him to not put my name on it, because it felt like such a boys’ club; it was a more misogynistic time. But he said I absolutely will put my name on everything I’ve written, and there will come a time when I’d thank him for it. He was right, of course. I’d be furious if I remained uncredited for what turned out to be quite good work. But at the time I felt uncomfortable; it was early in our relationship, and there was that idea of being Yoko Ono. Thinking about that now, where’s the insult of being Yoko Ono? She’s very talented. I think she’s rather amazing.”
Leading the pack of critics was Gilmour’s adversary Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1985, forgoing his role as the main writer of both the music and the lyrics.
“After Division Bell came out,” Samson says, “he was asked if he’d heard the album, and his response was, ‘Yeah. Getting the wife to write the lyrics: how tragic is that?’ I remember being quite upset. Now I just think it was appalling of him. Imagine someone saying that now. What disqualifies someone? Is it being female? Is it being married? I’ve been a writer all my life. Why would I not be able to do this because I got married? It’s wifeism, really. I suspect it was sour grapes,” she says with a grin. “In those days insults fairly freely flew back and forth. David and Roger were like a bickering old divorced couple.”



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Dem Bild nach zu urteilen hat sich David für den Verkauf der Villa auf Rhodos mehr erhofft!
Wobei gestern, in anderen Artikeln, von 575.000€ die Rede war.

500.000 € für die Villa von David Gilmour

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Pink Floyd hat heute die Chance beim "Echo 2015", in der
Kategorie "Album des Jahres" einen Echo verliehen zu bekommen.

Pink Floyd beim "Echo 2015"

Das ist ein Ausschnitt eines Artikels über den "Echo 2015" von Spiegel Online

Ein Kommentar von Andreas Borcholte schrieb:

Regeln? Egal. Hauptsache, Helene Fischer tritt auf Wie das sein kann? Das fragen Sie am besten den Bundesverband der Deutschen Musikindustrie, der die Regeln wohl manchmal nicht so streng nimmt, wenn es um "unsere" Helene geht. Hauptsache, sie tritt auf und man kann ihr Preise überreichen. Dann stimmt auch die Einschaltquote bei der ARD, und der Beinahe-Monopolist Universal Music, der einen Großteil der Echo-Nominierten unter Vertrag hat, ist zufrieden. So rocken sie dann alle atemlos vor Glück durch die Nacht. Dafür nimmt man dann auch gerne in Kauf, dass sich wichtige deutsche Nachwuchs-Acts wie Kraftklub angeekelt vom wichtigsten deutschen Musikpreis abwenden.