Inside Out (46 page)
21 November 1980
‘Who Shot J.R.?’ episode of
Dallas
airs
8 December 1980
John Lennon shot dead in New York City
1981
1981
‘Pac-Man’ video game released
9 February 1981
Bill Haley dies
12 April 1981
First space shuttle launched
13–17 June 1981
Five performances of
The Wall
at Earls Court – the last live performance by David, Nick, Roger and Rick for 24 years
29 July 1981
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
7 September 1981
Shooting for
The Wall
movie begins
23 November 1981
A COLLECTION OF GREAT DANCE SONGS released
1982
1982
Trivial Pursuit launched
January 1982
Erika Roe streaks at Twickenham during an International rugby match
April 1982
Sinclair ZX Spectrum released
2 April 1982
Start of the Falklands war, as Argentina and Great Britain fight over ownership of the Falkland Islands/las Malvinas
23 May 1982
The Wall
film premieres at Cannes
1983
1 January 1983
The Internet created
21 March 1983
THE FINAL CUT released
29 October 1983
The Dark Side Of the Moon
becomes the longest running chart LP of all time after 491 weeks
1984
1984
Nick Mason joins the Rothmans Porsche team for the filming of
Life Could Be A Dream
January 1984
The now-classic 128K Apple Macintosh launched
30 April 1984
Roger Waters’
The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
released
June 1984
Douglas Adams’
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
published
16 September 1984
First broadcast of
Miami Vice
November 1984
Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ released
1985
1985
19 February 1985
First BBC broadcast of
EastEnders
March 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Chernenko as Soviet President
May 1985
The Groucho Club in London’s Soho opens
13 July 1985
Live Aid concerts at Wembley Stadium, London and the JFK Stadium, Philadelphia. David Gilmour plays with the Bryan Ferry band
at the Wembley show
19 August 1985
Nick Mason and Rick Fenn’s
Profiles
released
1 September 1985
Wreck of the
Titanic
located
1986
23 January 1986
First inductions to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Chuck Berry, James Brown and Elvis Presley
30 April 1986
Chernobyl fire
16 May 1986
Top Gun
released
22 June 1986
Diego Maradona scores his ‘hand of god’ goal for Argentina vs England in the World Cup
1987
January 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev launches
glasnost
followed by
perestroika
1 February 1987
DAT tapes launched by Aiwa
April 1987
Roger Waters press release confirms his departure from Pink Floyd
29 May 1987
Matthias Rust lands his Cessna plane in Moscow’s Red Square
15 June 1987
Roger Waters’
Radio KAOS
released
August 1987
Pink Floyd rehearsals for
Momentary Lapse
tour start in Toronto
8 September 1987
A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON released
9 September 1987
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
tour opens in Ottawa
1988
23 January 1988
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
world tour opens in Western Springs, New Zealand and runs through to 23 August 1988 at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island
30 April 1988
The Dark Side Of The Moon
drops out of the US album charts after 724 weeks in Top 200
21–22 June 1988
Chateau de Versailles shows
10 November 1988
Lockheed’s F-117A stealth bomber unveiled
22 November 1988
DELICATE SOUND OF THUNDER live album released
1989
14 February 1989
Fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie for writing
The Satanic Verses
13 May 1989
Another Lapse
tour starts in Werchter Park, Belgium
June 1989
The Tiananmen Square student demonstration is put down in Beijing, China
3–4 & 6–7 June 1989
Olympic Stadium, Moscow, shows
15 July 1989
Venice show
18 July 1989
Another Lapse
tour ends in Marseilles
26 July 1989
First prosecution for releasing a computer virus in the US
2 November 1989
The Berlin Wall falls
1990
1990
Nintendo launch the Game Boy
11 February 1990
Nelson Mandela released from captivity
31 March 1990
Guy Mason born
24 April 1990
Hubble space telescope launched
21 May 1990
Nick Mason marries Annette Lynton
30 June 1990
Knebworth Festival
21 July 1990
Roger Waters’
The Wall
performance in Berlin
28 November 1990
Margaret Thatcher resigns as prime minister
1 December 1990
French and British workers make final breakthrough for the Channel Tunnel
1991
5 September 1991
Soviet parliament votes to dissolve the USSR
24 September 1991
Cary Mason born
October 1991
Carrera PanAmericana race
1992
1992
The World Wide Web released
13 April 1992
Video of
La Carrera Panamericana
released
1993
23 June 1993
John Wayne Bobbitt bobbitted
13 September 1993
Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shake hands, standing on the White House lawn with Bill Clinton
1994
30 March 1994
THE DIVISION BELL released.
The Division Bell
tour opens at Robbie Stadium, Miami
29 October 1994
Final Earls Court show ends
Division Bell
tour
1995
30 May 1995
PULSE live album released
2005
2 July 2005
Nick, Roger, David and Rick reform for Live 8 at Hyde Park
2006
7 July 2006
Syd Barrett dies
2008
15 September 2008
Rick Wright dies
The publishers would like to thank the following sources for their kind permission to reproduce the photographs in this book.
We are particularly grateful to Nick Mason for access to his picture archive (NMA = Nick Mason Archive). Every effort has
been made to trace the copyright holders but should there be any omissions or errors we would be happy to correct them in
future editions of the book.
S
ECTION 1
Page 1
NMA
Page 2
NMA (both pics)
Page 3
(top) Clive Metcalfe; (bottom) NMA
Page 4
Mike Leonard (both pics)
Page 5
NMA
Page 6
NMA (both pics)
Page 7
(top left) Peter and Sumi Jenner/Graham Keen; (top right) NMA; (bottom) NMA
Page 8
Graham Keen
Page 9
(top) Adam Ritchie; (bottom left) NMA/Wendy Gair; (bottom right) Adam Ritchie
Page 10
(top) Dave Mills; (bottom) Redferns/Andrew
Whittuck
Page 11
(top) Rex Features; (bottom) NMA
Page 12
(top) NMA; (bottom) Colin Prime/
www.rocharchive.com
Page 13
NMA (all pics)
Page 14
NMA (both pics)
Page 15
NMA (both pics)
Page 16
Peter and Sumi Jenner
S
ECTION 2
Page 1
Storm Thorgerson
Page 2
Strange Things Archive
Page 3
(top) Jill Furmanovsky’s Archive; (bottom) NMA
Page 4
NMA
Page 5
NMA (both pics)
Page 6
Pictorial Press/Jeffrey Mayer
Page 7
(top) NMA; (bottom) The Collection of Steve O’Rourke
Page 8
Mick Rock
Page 9
Ron Geesin/Richard Stanley
Page 10
(top) Juliet Wright/Gerard Bousquet; (bottom) NMA
Page 11
Rex Features/Crollanza
Page 12
NMA
Page 13
Repfoto/Robert Ellis
Page 14
(top) Jill Furmanovsky; (bottom) NMA
Page 15
NMA (both pics)
Page 16
Rex
Features/Everett Collection
S
ECTION 3
Page 1
NMA
Page 2
NMA (both pics)
Page 3
NMA (both pics)
Pages 4
and
5
pyramids, Hipgnosis; band, Jill Furmanovsky
Page 6
(top) The Collection of Steve O’Rourke; (bottom) NMA/Jill Furmanovsky
Page 7
(top and middle) NMA/Jill Furmanovsky; (bottom)
NMA
Page 8
Phil Taylor (both pics)
Page 9
(top) Phil Taylor; (bottom) NMA
Page 10
(top) Jill Furmanovsky; (bottom) NMA/Jean
Cazals
Page 11
Robbie Williams
Page 12
Phil Taylor
Page 13
NMA (both pics)
Pages 14
and
15
(both pics) NMA
Page 16
NMA/Bob
Jenkins
S
ECTION 4
Page 1
NMA/Mark Fisher
Page 2
NMA
Page 3
(top) Jill Furmanovsky; (bottom) NMA/Bob Jenkins
Page 4
(top) NMA; (bottom) MGM/UA
courtesy The Kobal Collection
Page 5
LAT (all pics)
Page 6
(top) NMA/David Bailey; (bottom) Jill Furmanovsky
Page 7
(top)
Rex Features/Nils Jorgensen; (bottom) NMA/Dimo Safari
Page 8
(top) Robbie Williams; (bottom) NMA
Page 9
(top) NMA; (bottom)
NMA/Dimo Safari
Page 10
NMA (all pics)
Page 11
(top) NMA/Dimo Safari; (top) Holly Mason
Page 12
NMA (all pics)
Page 13
NMA/Dimo
Safari all pics except bottom left, which is Rex Features
Page 14
NMA (both pics)
Page 15
(top) Jill Furmanovsky; (bottom)
Brian Rasic/Rex Features
Page 16
Brian Rasic/Rex Features
C
REDITS FOR
P
ART
T
ITLES
Chapter 1
NMA
Chapter 2
Redferns/Andrew Whittuck
Chapter 4
NMA
Chapter 5
Ron Geesin/Richard Stanley
Chapter 6
NMA
Chapter
9
NMA
Chapter 10
NMA
Chapter 11
NMA/Dimo Safari
Chapter 12
NMA/Dimo Safari
A&M Studios, Los Angeles,
288
Aachen,
148
Abbey Road Studios,
85
,
87
,
88
,
89
–
93
,
116
,
123
–
4
,
127
,
146
,
157
,
170
–
1
,
174
–
5
,
193
,
202
–
3
,
207
–
8
,
307
Adler, Peter,
17
Alexandra Palace: ‘14-Hour Technicolour Dream’,
81
–
2
,
95
All Saints church hall,
47
–
9
,
54
,
78
America
see
United States
American Forces Network,
19
Antibes Jazz Festival,
149
Antonioni, Michelangelo,
51
,
137
–
8
,
143
Appice, Carmine,
288
Astoria
(houseboat),
285
–
7
,
294
,
300
–
1
,
317
–
18
Avram, Marcel,
226
Ballet de Marseille,
149
,
168
,
181
–
3
,
185
Band, The:
Music From Big Pink,
152
Bannister, Freddie,
142