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| Subject: Pink Floyd should be over the moon with Darkside Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:10 am | |
| In the battle of the '70s rock dinosaur tributes, Pink Floyd may have the advantage .
Queen had an atrocious musical, We Will Rock You, written by the supposedly funny Ben Elton and freely adapting almost every Freddie Mercury and friends hit. While many have considered that jukebox musical and, particularly, its script a stinker, thousands more loved it and the band cleaned up all over the world.
Now, Pink Floyd have hit back with not just an audio play instead of a musical – the band were never noted for humour or light fare – but a script written by one of the finest living English dramatists, Tom Stoppard, based on 1973's mega selling Dark Side Of The Moon album.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/pink-floyd-should-be-over-the-moon-with-darkside-20130807-2rgis.html#ixzz2bLqUZCJI |
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