


Even simple matters like an Animals box set devolved into a year-long civil war between Waters and Gilmour. They had a band meeting a couple of years back to try and sort everything out, but it resulted in nothing more than even more bitterness and public acrimony. In recent years, Roger Waters has gone public with the fact that he’s been locked out of Floyd’s social-media channels. Odds of a Reunion: The Pink Floyd detente that culminated with a handful mini reunions between 20 is long over. In May 2011, David Gilmour performed “Comfortably Numb” with Roger Waters at London’s 02 Arena, and Mason (playing tambourine) came out with Gilmour for “Outside the Wall.” David Gilmour and Nick Mason linked up in the studio in 2014 to complete some unfinished Richard Wright tracks on the largely instrumental album The Endless River, but they didn’t support it with any live work Three years later Richard Wright died of cancer - forever ruling out a complete reunion. Last Performance: The classic line-up of Gilmour, Wright, Mason, and Waters did a four-song set at Live 8 in the summer of 2005. They quietly went on an indefinite hiatus when the tour wrapped after a long run of shows at London’s Earls Court in October 1994. They also played many enormous stadium gigs, but by the end of 1994’s massive Division Bell tour, David Gilmour had had enough. Why They Split: Band relations hit a real low on the band’s 1980–81 Wall tour, but after Roger Waters left in the early 1980s, the remaining trio of David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason got along quite well and turned into a functioning unit.
