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Music: Why is Pink Floyd still around and so successful...
...album's title refers to a British parliamentary procedure that divides the House of Commons into two opposing camps and also alludes to the rift between Gilmour and bassist Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1984. It was Waters who in the early 1970s masterminded the band's transformation from an acid-rock act into a sleek, shadowy outfit that used high-tech wizardry and mordant humor to skewer greedy capitalists, warmongering generals and -- most evil of all -- nasty headmasters. With Waters as its leader, Pink Floyd became famous for its surrealistic, multimedia concerts, culminating with the tour...
Four years later, Waters' decision to leave Pink Floyd triggered a battle over the legal rights to the group's name. Waters lost, and Gilmour, keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason carried on as Pink Floyd and released 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, an album that managed to rehash the group's trademark sound. Waters, who feels betrayed by his old mates, still holds a grudge. Gilmour is more conciliatory. A sense of wounded wistfulness crops up repeatedly in The Division Bell. "So I open my door to my enemies," Gilmour laments on Lost for Words...
...course, even without Waters, the current album is selling well, and fans have bought more than 3 million tickets for Pink Floyd's current U.S. tour. The 16-year-olds at those concerts -- eager like so many 16-year-olds before them to hear such alienated anthems as Money and Another Brick in the Wall -- may be too young to notice or care about Waters' absence. In pop music, inertia and a name can carry you a long way; with The Division Bell, Pink Floyd is trying to discover just...
Young Mrs. Kennedy, in her early 30s, in the pillbox hat, or the bloody pink suit, or the black veil, became one of the urdivinities of the paleotelevision age. By the time she died, she was still arguably the most famous woman on earth. Who else -- Madonna? Princess Di? (The falloff in quality is steep...