Nick Mason

As the music world marks what would have been Syd Barrett's 80th birthday, Pink Floyd's founding drummer Nick Mason has reflected on the brief, brilliant and ultimately tragic creative arc of the band's original frontman, a figure whose influence still reverberates through rock music nearly six decades after his departure from the group.

Rock and racing legend Nick Mason, drummer for Pink Floyd and lifelong car enthusiast, is auctioning off one of the most unique collector's items to ever bridge the worlds of music and motoring, his personal Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet Pink Floyd Edition. Every cent raised, including auction premiums, will go to the Harefield Healing Garden Charity, a cause close to Mason's heart.

Fifty years ago, on September 12, 1975, Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, their ninth studio album and the follow-up to the phenomenon that was The Dark Side of the Moon. Few bands in rock history have faced the challenge Pink Floyd did in the mid-1970s: how do you follow up one of the most successful, best-selling and artistically defining albums of all time? Against that backdrop, Wish You Were Here emerged not only as a worthy successor but as one of the group’s most enduring works.

Steven Wilson has created a remix of Pink Floyd’s ‘Echoes’ as performed by Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.

Spandau Ballet’s co-founder and principal songwriter Gary Kemp says that the last three years touring the world with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason in Saucerful of Secrets was the catalyst for his third solo album ‘This Destination’.

Pink Floyd's Nick Mason wants to use AI to create new music for the band.

Three solo albums of Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason will be reissued in June.