Authors: Nick Mason

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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

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

PICTURE CREDITS

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