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But I doubt very much whether we'd all four of us get on the road again and do a huge tour. And it was really nice that we did get onstage again with Roger, because it was a good cause - the cause was more important than our arguments with each other. 'But apparently,' he adds with obvious pride, 'when Pink Floyd went on, the whole backstage area was empty! Which says something.

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I've got nothing against David Beckham as a footballer, but I couldn't help thinking, why is David Beckham here? With Posh? It was all very corporate, and none of them was really listening to the music, they were too busy getting their free champagne and whatever.' 'I had one problem with Live 8, and that was all this backstage business going on, and the Golden Ticket Area. 'I was backstage listening to The Who, and it was wonderful,' recalls Wright. It was something that came back to him last summer, when hell briefly froze over and the Floyd appeared with Roger Waters at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, the feuding parties' differences put aside for the moment. The tour with Gilmour is helping reacquaint Wright with the joy of playing live, something he much prefers to the grind of studio work. 'We're redoing that now, on Dave's tour, and I have the pleasure of singing it! Dave suggested we do it - and we've never ever done that song live it was from before he was in the band, in fact.' Syd got his wish, as the Floyd scored instant hits with 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play'. Wright claims he never feels upstaged by the giant pigs or any of the other effects, but admits that with a show this ambitious, the biggest problem is having to sync to the films: all the other elements are malleable, but the films are fixed. This might the chap who carried the drugs, but that kind of indulgence would be counter-productive in keeping the show running like clockwork. There's even a credit for a 'smoke artist'. Try getting that past health and safety now. During 'On the Run', the audience is watching the film of a bed careering through hospital corridors, when suddenly a blazing Second World War fighter zooms across the auditorium above their heads.

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The main selling point about the new double-DVD is that the second disc features the only recorded live presentation of Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, complete with films, effects, the full complement of bells and whistles - something that's never likely to happen again, certainly by Pink Floyd (although Roger Waters is about to take his own Dark Side. I was watching the DVD with someone last night, and they said, 'It's like the lighting at the Barcelona Olympics.' I said, 'He lit the Barcelona Olympics too.'' It's not only the lights that make the live shows so impressive, though.

Sometimes, he would be asked by various people, 'Could you put this spotlight on this musician?' or 'Could you give the musicians more light?' and he would get upset because it would destroy his painting. Mark says the way he lights us is like painting a picture, and watching it, I know exactly what he means. 'I don't think there's anyone else's lighting that has that imagination and feel for colour. 'Mark Brickman is a genius,' says Wright.

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