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NICK MASON’S SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS

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“THE first time Pink Floyd played here was at an Oxfam benefit in 1966,” says Nick Mason, addressing the crowd. “Were any of you there? I think some of you were, but you were so out of it that you’ve probably forgotten.”

The 5,200-capacity Royal Albert Hall might be a modest-sized venue on a usual Pink Floyd tour – a lot smaller than the arenas and enormodomes that Nick Mason has sold out with David Gilmour and Roger Waters over the years – but it is, by some distance, the biggest date that this motley

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