Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother Redux
Jim Irvin, Word, The, August 2008
IN JUNE 1984, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, unequivocal as always, told Richard Skinner on Radio 1: "If somebody said to me now: 'Right...here's a million pounds, go out and play Atom Heart Mother,' I'd say: 'You must be fucking joking...I'm not playing that rubbish!'"
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