Fredrik Reinfeldt reading the citation for 2008 laureate Pink Floyd when they received the Polar Music Prize. Renée Fleming was also laureate this year.
Pink Floyd will be the Progressive Rock Band listened to and remembered for years to come,.. because as Roger said once fifty plus years ago ......."Rock will never die". Four musical geniuses that got together and created and played the most iconic music ever that only a true Floydian can comprehend and enjoy the esence of their creations. RIP dear Rick. Long live to David, Nick and Roger.Let's keep the Floyd's legacy alive.
At the time of this awards ceremony, Richard Wright was terminally-ill with Lung-cancer, and from the Nick's slight pause when mentioning him, it bothered him terribly; No surprise David wasn't there since Roger was, but Rick had just months to live at this time. He is missed.
roger's presence definitely isn't the reason for david's absence, as they were more or less on speaking terms at that point. It was a few years after live8 and a few years before dave would be invited to play on The Wall tour
The ceremony took place on 27 Aug. 2008. Our Rick and David's "musical partner and friend" past away just two weeks after this event on the 15th Sept. We all cannot imagine how devasted and hurtful David was at the time! Nobody was expecting them to attend if only they knew what was going on!
I was 11 years old in '73 when "The Dark Side of the Moon" hit the world. I love Pink Floyd. I love "The Wall". But "Dark Side" is 100x the LP that "The Wall" is. (And "Wish You Were Here" was 5x the LP that "The Wall" is... and "Animals" is 2x the LP that "The Wall" is.)
@@cfaria1894 I can see that. I disagree with you, but I can see your point of view. I also love "Meddle", as well as the "More" and "Obscured By Clouds" soundtracks. (It goes without saying I love "Live at Pompeii".) "The Final Cut"? There's some redeemable tracks. I adore "The Gunners Dream", for example. But its mostly a Roger Waters solo LP with forced David Gilmour backing on guitar. "Cut" is by far the *least* of the Floyd LPs, even trailing by far "Atom Heart Mother".
Who knew this old druggie band would be such a huge influence even today? Pink Floyd was my love in the 70s and still to this day. I can feel ever human emotion in just one Pink Floyd masterpiece. Heaven..
they probably weren't as addicted as they are used to believe. Nick Mason also raced in Le Mans, I think it's hard for a junkie to drive racing cars. In an interview Gilmour and also Mason made no secret of having used soft drugs but the band went down in history as a group of drug addicts more than anything else for Sid Barret
It says it all when Roger says "we weren't taking any drugs....apart from alcohol". He also said "I hardly took any drugs, I only had a brief stint of drug taking.....four or five years". He was also a chain smoker. Frankly drugs probably would have been better. Pretty sure david spent most of the eighties in a cocaine haze, MOST of the music industry did. But if you listen to lesser known music stuff from britain, you find they weren't so singular, they just got more populare.
@@ThatIsDopeBro LOL! One thing about Pink Floyd is at any given time any album will be somebody's favourite. Like many prog bands each of their album is so different my theory is that it depends at what point in your life you are listening. I'm aware I'm in the minority as I never liked Dark Side of the Moon THAT much. I think Animals is the one I listened the most often to, it was 'my favourite for longer' than the other albums, but I like Meddle as second best ALWAYS. The Final Cut I had my go of having it a favourite, but it wasn't long. Davids job was always to make sure hte music stands on its own as much as the lyrics, I don't think that happened in Final Cut or in Rogers solo stuff. He more than made up for that with lyrics, and it was at a time the music took a back seat anyway.
Well yes, but can you imagine a Syd Barret-Pink Floyd accepting a music prize like this? The ceremony would have been quite spectacular to watch though.
I am not a fan of royals, generally speaking, but I have to admit it's extremely refreshing to watch members of a royal family that look, talk, act, laugh and share jokes like normal people do. Totally unlike the pompous acting characters of the British royal family, for example, whose every word and movement is minutely scripted, distant and cold.
I look past the inner turmoil of the band. Roger's lyrics are irreplaceable. As well as Gilmour's riffs, and Rick's avant-garde keyboard, and Nick's perfectly matched beats. And never ever would I leave out the originator, Roger Keith Barrett. They are Pink Floyd, everything else is a useless argument.
Yes I agree. Let's think though, pink Floyd wouldn't be pink Floyd, if things did not fall into place the way they did... Yes, I'm with you, should have heard some more about sid. Great artists, all of them, A heart well thank you...
I think he was just cringing a bit during Reinfeldt's speech (who wouldn't) and then it was probably just stage fright. I know it sounds weird for a rock star of his level but he's already explained how he gets uncomfortable speaking to a large audience outside of the context of a band. Also, monarchy = 😬
Simplemente la mejor banda de rock de la historia, al ver y escuchar ECOES IN POMPEI me pregunto: puede un grupo de rock crear tal obra de arte?, pues si . larga vida PINK FLOYD y no olvidarse del alama de esta banda: SYD BARRET.
since waters left the band, and all the legalities, he can not speak 'for the band'. Legally he is not a pink floyd band member now. That is also why he only said 'I endorse what Nick said',.
@Sebastian Shaw he is not a dick, he doesn't like a hypocratic society, that is against everything he stands for. too many things are going wrong in this world to be a relaxed, satisfied, happy person in public for no reason. if there is a reason, he smiles, im pretty sure. he is the opposite of a hypocrate and ignorant.
@@keep_walking_on_grass but yet is angrily intolerant of opposing views, continuously arrogant (nobody can write a song as well as he can), obsessively forces his ideology into everything, and his pathetic refusal to let go of the past. Aside from that, he is a real charmer.
@@stevehazlett7614 He's a founder member, was the driving force through their best output and largely responsible for the stella status the band enjoys.
@Apul Mahdeek Aoud thank you,or maybe one of their lyrics. I don't know I must have been drunk at the time,this guys cruising for a brusin,I don't know I must have been drunk at the time.
@@whichoneispink5967 I do too :^) You know, I'm wondering if we ever crossed paths on other social medias, it's seems like the internet is a really small place
@@NoneOfyourBusiness468 he’s right though. His guitar and music is an enormous component of the band. A bigger role for Roger would be more records like Rogers solo records which aren’t in the same league as the Floyd’s
Well that's simply not true, One Over X. Since Roger wrote pretty much all the music AND lyrics of all PF's post-Barrett albums and songs. And yes (coming from this amateur guitarist for 40 yrs of playing) Gilmour is superb and a complete original and with Jeff Beck and Knopfler one of my three electric guitar heroes. But creating music and lyrics seems to me to be the hardest thing to do, especially such complex chords, progressions and melodies. And those are primarily Waters' ideas. AND he created Amused to Death, which is up there with the very very best of Floyd's material. So yeah, not to take sides, but Roger is just the most gifted of the 4, when it comes to creating, songwriting, lyrics. Up there with Paul Simon and Paul McCartney, to name a few.
This was so cringeworthy, i like how Nick was giving us the "hey get a load of this guy" look as he started talking about "when i was bla bla bla in 1979 pink Floyd bla no education...."
If anyone are wondering who the guy speaking first is. His name is Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister and are responsible for the fall of Sweden and used mass-immigration as a weapon. He knew very well of the consequences and that it's practically undoable without turning all faschist/nazi in some way. Fascism, nazis and any form of alt-right is frowned upon very actively by the general mass, the media and the governments public sectors. He used this opportunity for his own fundamental idéas which he very well explained in his book 'Det Sovande Folket' from 93. He wished to remove the welfare state and create a lower class for his own elitist capitalist money making insanity. It was during the last years of being prime minister and no matter the outcome he has to step down because you can't be a prime minister for longer than 8 years (please correct me on this), but they were also very likely to lose their next campaign (which they did). His party went from a majority in the first term to forming a minority government(?) and their party showed decline so it was pretty obvious that the Social Democrats would win 2010, which would be perfect because Merkel stated that Syrians we're welcome, they said the same shortly after(?) which created a flood of immigrants to Sweden and suddenly we had a situation that was completely out of control for the next government to deal with somehow and show Sweden they're a weak party and of course he knows people are stupid enough to adress their anger and mistrust to the Social Democrats and quickly forgot that him and his party are to blame. He knew from the start that this issue and his actions is something the left already support. Mastermind.
Joder que ganas de vomitar, no me extraña que no quisieran acudir ni Gilmour ni Wright, el presentador menciona la experimentación sonora y después habla The Wall 😂😂😂. Justo después de bajar del escenario waters se masturbó y se limpió con el mantel de la mesa de té 😂😂😂😂. Nick Mason tiene buen estómago por aguantar el speech del presentador sin clavarle el premio en la nuez, gracias Nick.............
The only claim to fame left for Roger Waters is his bitter resentment... NO ONE CARES DUDE.... GET OVER YOURSELF... He needs to read over the words to his song "PIGS" three different ones, and add one more, himself.
Ah ça c est sur c est so english ce message est délivrer par un Angevin poitevin dont les ancêtres furent les maîtres de l ile aux moutons je dir ça pour de pas être trop vache avec l ennemie héréditaire qui n oublie pas azincourt et l acadie
Pink Floyd will be the Progressive Rock Band listened to and remembered for years to come,.. because as Roger said once fifty plus years ago ......."Rock will never die". Four musical geniuses that got together and created and played the most iconic music ever that only a true Floydian can comprehend and enjoy the esence of their creations. RIP dear Rick. Long live to David, Nick and Roger.Let's keep the Floyd's legacy alive.
U forgot to mention Syd. R.I. P. Syd Berrat and R.I.P. Richard Wright.
Love Nick Mason's accent! A real Gentleman!
Sono davvero stati i più grandi e lo resteranno ancora x molto molto tempo...Thank You Guys!!!
At the time of this awards ceremony, Richard Wright was terminally-ill with Lung-cancer, and from the Nick's slight pause when mentioning him, it bothered him terribly; No surprise David wasn't there since Roger was, but Rick had just months to live at this time. He is missed.
roger's presence definitely isn't the reason for david's absence, as they were more or less on speaking terms at that point. It was a few years after live8 and a few years before dave would be invited to play on The Wall tour
@@AliciaB. Either of those is equally likely. Being civil is different than having to hang around with somebody.
The ceremony took place on 27 Aug. 2008. Our Rick and David's "musical partner and friend" past away just two weeks after this event on the 15th Sept. We all cannot imagine how devasted and hurtful David was at the time! Nobody was expecting them to attend if only they knew what was going on!
"David wasn't there since Roger was " if true it showes a remarkably small minded character for such a musicaly gifted person,
@@mikearchibald7440😅😅
I was 13 in '79 when "The Wall" hit the world.
Wish David and Nick were here.
Maybe Rick?? Nick was there.
@@eruiluvataarv.6485 Yes..Rick. Don't know why i said Nick.
I was 11 years old in '73 when "The Dark Side of the Moon" hit the world. I love Pink Floyd. I love "The Wall". But "Dark Side" is 100x the LP that "The Wall" is. (And "Wish You Were Here" was 5x the LP that "The Wall" is... and "Animals" is 2x the LP that "The Wall" is.)
@@johnmrog i'm not sure about the 100, 5 and the 2X but i guess it's pretty close. I also love MEDDLE and kind of love The Final Cut.
@@cfaria1894 I can see that. I disagree with you, but I can see your point of view. I also love "Meddle", as well as the "More" and "Obscured By Clouds" soundtracks. (It goes without saying I love "Live at Pompeii".) "The Final Cut"? There's some redeemable tracks. I adore "The Gunners Dream", for example. But its mostly a Roger Waters solo LP with forced David Gilmour backing on guitar. "Cut" is by far the *least* of the Floyd LPs, even trailing by far "Atom Heart Mother".
Who knew this old druggie band would be such a huge influence even today? Pink Floyd was my love in the 70s and still to this day. I can feel ever human emotion in just one Pink Floyd masterpiece. Heaven..
they probably weren't as addicted as they are used to believe. Nick Mason also raced in Le Mans, I think it's hard for a junkie to drive racing cars. In an interview Gilmour and also Mason made no secret of having used soft drugs but the band went down in history as a group of drug addicts more than anything else for Sid Barret
Gilmour said “I think that most people think of us as a very drug orientated group of course we’re not. You can trust us”
It says it all when Roger says "we weren't taking any drugs....apart from alcohol". He also said "I hardly took any drugs, I only had a brief stint of drug taking.....four or five years". He was also a chain smoker. Frankly drugs probably would have been better. Pretty sure david spent most of the eighties in a cocaine haze, MOST of the music industry did. But if you listen to lesser known music stuff from britain, you find they weren't so singular, they just got more populare.
@@franco3042E allora? In questo ambiente tutti hanno fatto uso di droghe. Chi più infatti molti sono morti, chi meno e ancora a 80 anni sono vivi.
Final Cut is a brilliant album, it's a shame it does not get as much credit. Pink Floyd is by far the greatest Rock band of all time.
@C.Kuru u never heard ummagumma?
@@ThatIsDopeBro LOL! One thing about Pink Floyd is at any given time any album will be somebody's favourite. Like many prog bands each of their album is so different my theory is that it depends at what point in your life you are listening. I'm aware I'm in the minority as I never liked Dark Side of the Moon THAT much. I think Animals is the one I listened the most often to, it was 'my favourite for longer' than the other albums, but I like Meddle as second best ALWAYS. The Final Cut I had my go of having it a favourite, but it wasn't long. Davids job was always to make sure hte music stands on its own as much as the lyrics, I don't think that happened in Final Cut or in Rogers solo stuff. He more than made up for that with lyrics, and it was at a time the music took a back seat anyway.
Roger is the man! You have to be more than just music.
Com'on you Legends & SHINE!!!! Love u Pink Floyd forever...
They never fail to always include Syd Barrett. This time, they forgot to mention him. :(
Of course, because it's not Gilmour speaking and giving credit.
@@mbpandora50 stop Roger always mentioned Syd every chance he could
@@mbpandora50 Knock it off. Roger Waters literally made a whole album dedicated to Syd.
Well yes, but can you imagine a Syd Barret-Pink Floyd accepting a music prize like this?
The ceremony would have been quite spectacular to watch though.
I am not a fan of royals, generally speaking, but I have to admit it's extremely refreshing to watch members of a royal family that look, talk, act, laugh and share jokes like normal people do. Totally unlike the pompous acting characters of the British royal family, for example, whose every word and movement is minutely scripted, distant and cold.
Where's Gilmour?
Sids at the back.... Its HIS BAND
Steffan Hoffmann the band was all four so shut the fuck up
@@oharryc all five id say
It’s a Rog show. He thinks he is”PF”.
I look past the inner turmoil of the band. Roger's lyrics are irreplaceable. As well as Gilmour's riffs, and Rick's avant-garde keyboard, and Nick's perfectly matched beats. And never ever would I leave out the originator, Roger Keith Barrett. They are Pink Floyd, everything else is a useless argument.
Back when Rog was on his best behavior trying to get back into Gilmour good books and do a proper Pink Floyd Farwell tour
Yes I agree. Let's think though, pink Floyd wouldn't be pink Floyd, if things did not fall into place the way they did... Yes, I'm with you, should have heard some more about sid. Great artists, all of them, A heart well thank you...
Legends. ❤️
LonglivePinkFloyd. 🤘🏻
Nick is so english
Naturally Roger would go, and Dave would have said No, because of that.
Long live The Pink Floyd 💎💎💎💎💎
Maybe could spend a couple of words about Syd Barrett,without him Pink Floyd wouldn't exist..
wow.. wowo....wow..wow!!!!!!!!
Roger Waters is like " I dont even want to fucking be here!" or at least he appears that way..
I think he was just cringing a bit during Reinfeldt's speech (who wouldn't) and then it was probably just stage fright. I know it sounds weird for a rock star of his level but he's already explained how he gets uncomfortable speaking to a large audience outside of the context of a band.
Also, monarchy = 😬
He wouldn't even wear a tie.....so rock and roll:)
Mason and Waters are friends
@@markhall6306 was not implying that they were not friends water's just looked uncomfortable
Aunque lo niegue la historia oficial, son tres las leyendas que debieran haber recibido esta distinción.
Que dice la historia oficial? Si uno no va a la premiación no es culpa de la de organización.
Simplemente la mejor banda de rock de la historia, al ver y escuchar ECOES IN POMPEI me pregunto: puede un grupo de rock crear tal obra de arte?, pues si . larga vida PINK FLOYD y no olvidarse del alama de esta banda: SYD BARRET.
Hay un antes y un despues de Pink Floyd!!!.Gracias genios!!!
Waters is cringing so hard during the introduction
since waters left the band, and all the legalities, he can not speak 'for the band'. Legally he is not a pink floyd band member now. That is also why he only said 'I endorse what Nick said',.
@Sebastian Shaw he is not a dick, he doesn't like a hypocratic society, that is against everything he stands for. too many things are going wrong in this world to be a relaxed, satisfied, happy person in public for no reason. if there is a reason, he smiles, im pretty sure. he is the opposite of a hypocrate and ignorant.
@@keep_walking_on_grass but yet is angrily intolerant of opposing views, continuously arrogant (nobody can write a song as well as he can), obsessively forces his ideology into everything, and his pathetic refusal to let go of the past. Aside from that, he is a real charmer.
@Sebastian Shaw Maybe because the dipshit running it clearly didn't like pink floyd and was some clown who quoted their second most popular song
@@stevehazlett7614 He's a founder member, was the driving force through their best output and largely responsible for the stella status the band enjoys.
Best British group of all time
Best band of all time, full stop
@@mancebo7 wasn’t me that said it
@@neilj6322 My apologies, surely! 🙏
Kindly remove "British" from the sentence... 😉
@@mancebo7 just this once 😉
And no one mentions Syd.
legendary
David Gilmour best légende ..Rick WRIGTH (R.I.P)
Where’s Dave guilmore?
Sorry....but I miss David and Rick there....and a word about Syd....💎
I really wish Gilmour and Wright where there.
just two lost souls
Pink Floyd💝good Price😘et "On the Flesh" par Joey devant lui💝just Fantastic😘is Joey💝💝
Mick Mason
ARDA AĞIN Nick ...not Mick ....
@@jonjones971 Who is this Nick you are talking about? This is the one and only Mick Mason of Pink Floyd
@@whichoneispink5967 I think he's mixing him up with Nick Jagger
Where's David???
@Apul Mahdeek Aoud thank you,or maybe one of their lyrics. I don't know I must have been drunk at the time,this guys cruising for a brusin,I don't know I must have been drunk at the time.
@Apul Mahdeek Aoud or.maybe on the Dark Sìde Of the Moon
Dave’s not here man....
@@toucan1262 then where is he,this is your assignment
@@williamorr9203 It's a Cheech and Chong reference Bill. Google it.
cringe to the max! I dont miss fredrik a bit:D
1:41 im dead
hahaha. roger doesnt like people
And here you are again. Can’t blame Roger that would be my reaction too.
@@whichoneispink5967 oh my God who are u, we keep on meeting
@@NimrodelMirage I know this is strange but I enjoy it 😂
@@whichoneispink5967 I do too :^) You know, I'm wondering if we ever crossed paths on other social medias, it's seems like the internet is a really small place
Pink floyd wouldn't not be anything without Gilmore rem that!
What BS. It would be a different PF. R.W. Would probably have a bigger role for example.
@@NoneOfyourBusiness468 he’s right though. His guitar and music is an enormous component of the band. A bigger role for Roger would be more records like Rogers solo records which aren’t in the same league as the Floyd’s
Well that's simply not true, One Over X. Since Roger wrote pretty much all the music AND lyrics of all PF's post-Barrett albums and songs. And yes (coming from this amateur guitarist for 40 yrs of playing) Gilmour is superb and a complete original and with Jeff Beck and Knopfler one of my three electric guitar heroes.
But creating music and lyrics seems to me to be the hardest thing to do, especially such complex chords, progressions and melodies. And those are primarily Waters' ideas. AND he created Amused to Death, which is up there with the very very best of Floyd's material. So yeah, not to take sides, but Roger is just the most gifted of the 4, when it comes to creating, songwriting, lyrics. Up there with Paul Simon and Paul McCartney, to name a few.
Why wasn't David there?
David died
PF look like respectable gents , now part of the “comfortably numb” establishment. Congratulations
In 2020.
Well, aren't we all (of that/their generation)?
those ackward moments
David Gilmour and Richard did themselves a favour not going there.
No shit
👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
This was so cringeworthy, i like how Nick was giving us the "hey get a load of this guy" look as he started talking about "when i was bla bla bla in 1979 pink Floyd bla no education...."
If anyone are wondering who the guy speaking first is. His name is Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister and are responsible for the fall of Sweden and used mass-immigration as a weapon. He knew very well of the consequences and that it's practically undoable without turning all faschist/nazi in some way. Fascism, nazis and any form of alt-right is frowned upon very actively by the general mass, the media and the governments public sectors. He used this opportunity for his own fundamental idéas which he very well explained in his book 'Det Sovande Folket' from 93. He wished to remove the welfare state and create a lower class for his own elitist capitalist money making insanity. It was during the last years of being prime minister and no matter the outcome he has to step down because you can't be a prime minister for longer than 8 years (please correct me on this), but they were also very likely to lose their next campaign (which they did). His party went from a majority in the first term to forming a minority government(?) and their party showed decline so it was pretty obvious that the Social Democrats would win 2010, which would be perfect because Merkel stated that Syrians we're welcome, they said the same shortly after(?) which created a flood of immigrants to Sweden and suddenly we had a situation that was completely out of control for the next government to deal with somehow and show Sweden they're a weak party and of course he knows people are stupid enough to adress their anger and mistrust to the Social Democrats and quickly forgot that him and his party are to blame. He knew from the start that this issue and his actions is something the left already support. Mastermind.
ok
Thats interesting. Not sure I believe or follow all if it, but worth looking up. Is his book translated?
Wtf is David?
Qué coño hace Waters, el dejó Pink Floyd....
fue parte de Pink Floyd durante décadas, además de ser una de sus fuerzas creativas. ¿Te parece poco?
Joder que ganas de vomitar, no me extraña que no quisieran acudir ni Gilmour ni Wright, el presentador menciona la experimentación sonora y después habla The Wall 😂😂😂.
Justo después de bajar del escenario waters se masturbó y se limpió con el mantel de la mesa de té 😂😂😂😂.
Nick Mason tiene buen estómago por aguantar el speech del presentador sin clavarle el premio en la nuez, gracias Nick.............
Fuck me why can't they join up.
Reinfeldt you dork.
Thank god Roger didn't do the speech. So, we were spared from the political mumbo jumbo.
Sin Guilmour la entrega del premio es BASURA
The only claim to fame left for Roger Waters is his bitter resentment... NO ONE CARES DUDE.... GET OVER YOURSELF...
He needs to read over the words to his song "PIGS" three different ones, and add one more, himself.
sounds like you resent Roger bitterly
Ah ça c est sur c est so english ce message est délivrer par un Angevin poitevin dont les ancêtres furent les maîtres de l ile aux moutons je dir ça pour de pas être trop vache avec l ennemie héréditaire qui n oublie pas azincourt et l acadie
Not better than Led Zeppelin Episode
Where's Gilmour?
roger locked him in the lavvy