All the remaining material from the singles and EPs that had not appeared on these thirteen studio albums was gathered on the two-volume compilation Past Masters (1988).
The parties reached a legal agreement on 23 December; Mason and Gilmour retained the right to use the Pink Floyd name in perpetuity and Waters received exclusive rights to, among other things, The Wall .
In December 1987 the “classic lineup” of Ingle, Brann, Dorman and Bushy got together at The Roxy Theatre to prepare for a thirty date tour of the East Coast in the winter and spring of 1988 that culminated with an appearance at Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary celebration at Madison Square…
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason was released in September 1987. Thorgerson, whose creative input was absent from The Wall and The Final Cut , designed the album cover. To emphasise that Waters had left the band, they included a group photograph on the inside cover—the first since Meddle —featuring only…
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The songs on Obscured by Clouds were all short and economical, with a strong country music influence. The album also featured the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which Wright had purchased from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . ” Burning Bridges ” was one of two songwriting collaborations between Wright and Waters.…
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In the spring of 1987, Bushy and Pinera got back together to tour as Iron Butterfly for the “Wings of Flight 87” tour (Dorman was captaining a fishing boat, so was not available at this time) with Ace Baker (keyboards) and Kelly Reubens (bass). Tim Von Hoffman and Glen Rappold…
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In early 1987, Cobain and Novoselic recruited drummer Aaron Burckhard .
In 1987, Harrison’s Cloud Nine album included ” When We Was Fab “, a song about the Beatlemania era.
When the Beatles’ studio albums were released on CD by EMI and Apple Corps in 1987, their catalogue was standardised throughout the world, establishing a canon of the twelve original studio LPs as issued in the UK plus the US LP version of Magical Mystery Tour .
However, by the end of 1986, Gilmour had decided to make the material into a Pink Floyd project, the first without Waters.