Contractually, Wright was not a member of the band, and said he almost did not work on the album. However, he earned five co-writing credits, his first on a Pink Floyd album since 1975’s Wish You Were Here . Gilmour’s future wife, the novelist Polly Samson , is also credited;…
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Pink Floyd spent more than two weeks rehearsing in a hangar at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California , before opening The Division Bell tour on 29 March 1994, in Miami, with an almost identical road crew to that used for their Momentary Lapse of Reason tour.
In March 1994 Kent recorded a 10-track demo under very simple conditions in an 8-track studio at Nytorpsskolan near Blåsut in Stockholm. They gave the demo to Peter Ejheden at Pet Sounds who was working as a booker for a club (Pet Sounds Bar). In the same chain of events…
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In March 1994, the group won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song “Plush”.
Wax Trax! was saved from bankruptcy by an infusion of funds from TVT Records , and in March 1994 announced plans to release the compilation set Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years , which includes the KMFDM songs ” Virus ” and ” Godlike “, two…
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The band were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort and their lack of involvement in the mixing process; they wanted a more flattering, produced sound that went beyond Albini’s style of essentially documenting a band’s raw live sound. So when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews…
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In March 1994, the first single from the new album, ” Rocks “, was released.
The group played their first gig at London’s Splash club in March 1994. In 1995 they were voted Best New British Band by the readers of Kerrang! magazine. At the award ceremony drummer Mark Richardson met the band who were looking for a permanent replacement for Robbie France, so an…
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In February and March 1994, Motörhead toured the United States with Black Sabbath and Morbid Angel . In April the band resumed their tour of the States until early May, playing an engagement with the Ramones on 14 May at the Estadio Velez in Buenos Aires, attracting a crowd of…
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On 19 and 20 February 1994, the band’s follow-up EP, Hooked was recorded in Llandwrog , Gwynedd , and produced by Ken Nelson who they had met on Radio Wales.