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Nick Mason
Born 1944-01-27 · Birmingham, England, UK
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944) is an English drummer and songwriter, best known for his work with Pink Floyd. He is the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965. Despite solely writing only a few Pink Floyd songs, Mason has co-written some of Pink Floyd's most popular compositions such as "Echoes" and "Time". Mason is the only Pink Floyd member to be featured on every one of their albums. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States. He competes in auto racing events, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. On 26 November 2012, Mason received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Westminster at the presentation ceremony of the School of Architecture and Built Environment (he had studied architecture at the University's predecessor, Regent Street Polytechnic, 1962–1967).
Acting credits
NRThe Grammy-nominated 1988 concert, restored, re-edited and remixed from the original films and master tapes. Filmed at the Nassau Coliseum (Long Island, NY) and featuring David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright at their incendiary best, this engrossing and uplifting event uses an innovative mix of lighting and staging, balancing the then-new material and classic Pink Floyd songs.
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder
2026
8.1British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
1972
7.4In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
2023
7.4On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians from across the globe - asked people not for their money, but for their voice.
Live 8
2005
8.2Concert video taken from the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. It was largely filmed during the concerts running from August 19, 1988 through August 23, 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from June 21, 1988 and June 22, 1988 at the Place d'Armes of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, France (used to provide the performance of "The Great Gig in the Sky").
Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder
1989
8.4Live performance from the legendary band, recorded live at Earls Court in London on 20th October 1994, during The Division Bell tour.
Pink Floyd: Pulse
1995
NRDelicate Sound of Thunder is a landmark 1988 live album and concert film by Pink Floyd documenting their hugely successful post-Roger Waters A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, featuring spectacular visuals, iconic hits, and new songs from the studio album, showcasing the band's successful continuation led by David Gilmour, becoming a major success despite initial mixed reviews about its slickness but praised for its performances and technical prowess.
Pink Floyd: The Later Years, Vol 2 - Delicate Sound of Thunder
2019
6.9The closing ceremony of the games of the XXXth Olympiad.
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012
7.1An exhilarating celebration of the art of rock drumming, featuring some of the best drummers ever to have graced the drumkit. The viewer is taken on a uplifting journey through some of the most iconic music ever created, focusing on the women and men with the sticks, their passions, culture and awe-inspiring energy.
Count Me In
2021
NRA documentary chronicling the tour for David Gilmour's 2006 album "On An Island"
David Gilmour - Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine
2007
NRThis is a great collection of videos and live stuff, a must for any fan.
Pink Floyd - Video Anthology 1966-1983
2007
6.9Live concert by Pink Floyd in Piazza San Marco, Venezia, in 1989, performing: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Learning To Fly, Yet Another Movie, Round And Around, Sorrow, The Dogs Of War, On The Turning Away, Time, The Great Gig In The Sky, Wish You Were Here, Money, Another Brick In The Wall, part two, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell.
Pink Floyd: Live in Venice
1989
6.0It is now over 25 years since the release of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. This program draws on live performance footage of Pink Floyd and highlights from the film. Also includes extracts from archive interviews with Gerald Scarfe and Alan Parker, the director of The Wall, along with the views of a team of leading musicians and musicologists. This is the independent critical review of a milestone in popular culture, which strips away the prejudice to produce the ultimate retrospective on one of the most important and iconoclastic popular works of the twentieth century. Featuring Highlights From: • Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 • Comfortably Numb • One Of My Turns • Plus Many More!
Rock Milestones: Pink Floyd's The Wall (The Ultimate Critical Review)
2007
7.3Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
2023
NRA documentary on Robert Wyatt - singer, drummer and founding member of The Soft Machine, the legendary band in the international musical arena between the late Sixties and early Seventies who inspired the development of the made-in-Canterbury jazzy rock.
Little Red Robin Hood
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6.2Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Stamping Ground
1971
10.0Volume 7: 1967–1972: Continu/ation from Pink Floyd. Hampstead Heath And St. Michael’s Church, Highgate, London, UK, March 1967 - Arnold Layne (Alternative Version). P1 - P Wie Petersilie’ Stuggart, Germany, 22 July 1969 - Corporal Clegg, Band Interview, A Saucerful Of Secrets. Bath Festival Of Blues & Progressive Music’, Shepton Mallet, UK, 27 June 1970 - Atom Heart Mother. Kralingen Music Festival’ Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 28 June 1970 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, A Saucerful Of Secrets. ‘The Amsterdam Rock Circus’ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 May 1972 - Atom Heart Mother, Careful With That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful Of Secrets.
Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 7 - Continu/ation
2016
NROver ten years, documentary filmmaker Peter Clifton has recorded performances by some of the biggest names in world pop rock. From 1964 to 1973, groups such as the Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Blind Faith, Pink Floyd and Faces passed through London, as well as emblematic singers of that period, some with meteoric trajectory such as Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; others, poets of a single era, like Cat Stevens and Donovan, as well as those who would shine brighter a few years later, like Joe Cocker and Tina Turner. You can check it all out on this historic DVD, an indispensable document for anyone who appreciates the purest rock.
Superstars in Concert
1984
10.0Forum Musiques, Paris, France, 22 January 1969 ("Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", David Gilmour interview [in French], "A Saucerful of Secrets") The Man and The Journey: Royal Festival Hall, London, rehearsal, 14 April 1969 ("Afternoon", "The Beginning", "Cymbaline", "Beset by Creatures of the Deep", "The End of the Beginning") Essencer Pop & Blues Festival, Essen, Germany, October 11, 1969 ("Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "A Saucerful of Secrets") Music Power & European Music Revolution, Festival Actuel Amougies Mont de L'Enclus, Belgium, 25 October 1969 ("Green Is the Colour", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", "Interstellar Overdrive" [with Frank Zappa])
Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 3 - Dramatis/ation
2016
7.3Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This program tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction.
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here
2012
NRWish You Were Here 50 gives fans an exciting new perspective into one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic and best-loved records. This 50th anniversary edition features rarities and live recordings - at the core of this special collection are six previously unreleased alternate versions and demos presenting Pink Floyd's eighth studio album in a brand new way that demands repeat listening. This Blu-ray includes a Dolby Atmos mix of the album for the first time by James Guthrie, plus 25 bonus tracks made up of nine studio rarities, and 16 live recordings captured by the renowned bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26th 1975, now receiving its first official release. The live audio has been meticulously restored and remastered by Steven Wilson. The Blu-ray also gives fans the chance to see three concert screen films from the band’s 1975 tour, plus a Storm Thorgerson short film.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary)
2025
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Pink Floyd: Live In Venice
1989
7.5On the 30th June 1990 in the grounds of Knebworth House a concert was staged to raise funds for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the Brit School For Performing Arts. It has since been heralded as the "best British rock concert of all time". The breathtaking performing line-up was drawn entirely from acts who had been recipients of the prestigious Sliver Clef Award presented annually by Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy for outstanding services to the British Music Industry. All the artists gave their time and performances for free in order to support the charity and this 20th Anniversary deluxe edition will continue to raise funds so that they can continue their invaluable work. For the SD Blu-ray release the footage has been newly restored and has audio in DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM Stereo to present this legendary concert in the best possible sound and picture quality.
The Best British Rock Concert of All Time: Live at Knebworth
2010
7.5Ginger Baker is known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith, but the world's greatest drummer didn’t hit his stride until 1972, when he arrived in Nigeria and discovered Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. After leaving Nigeria, Ginger returned to his pattern of drug-induced self-destruction, and countless groundbreaking musical works, eventually settling in South Africa, where the 73-year-old lives with his young bride and 39 polo ponies. This documentary includes interviews with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Carlos Santana and more. Beware of Mr. Baker! With every smash of the drum is a man smashing his way through life.
Beware of Mr. Baker
2012