Pink Floyd to reunite for Live 8

Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright will be on stage with bassist Roger Waters for their first public performance since they played at London's Earls Court in 1981. The rock legends will join a star-studded line-up including Coldplay, Elton John and Paul McCartney at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, organized by activist rocker Bob Geldof to pressure rich nations to ease African poverty. "Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," said Gilmour. "Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention, then it's got to be worthwhile." The band released their first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in 1967 and broke records with 1973's "The Dark Side Of The Moon", which remained in the American album charts for more than a decade.
For those of you who never lived through the 60s, you don't know why people took drugs then: to listen to Pink Floyd. PF's music was custom-made for marijuana and LSD. The news that the trippiest band ever are to be reunited will remind an aging generation of the drugs they took back then. Should PF release a new album up to the mark of their old stuff now, they might reignite a new epidemic of drug-taking. Here's hoping they will. We need a reason to get stoned.