Pink Floyd Cashes In!

[DinoMikeSr]

$400 Million

Pink Floyd Sells Music Rights to Sony for $400 Million

Despite decades of infighting and years of false starts, the members of Pink Floyd have agreed to sell music rights to Sony Music for $400 million.

variety.com

 

[smurfco]

again?

 

[jrockbridge]

Pink isn’t well. He stayed back at the hotel.

 

[Jbird]

Pink isn’t well. He stayed back at the hotel.

I thought Pink is a she?

 

[jrockbridge]

I thought Pink is a she?

 

[jrockbridge]

$400 Million

Pink Floyd Sells Music Rights to Sony for $400 Million

Despite decades of infighting and years of false starts, the members of Pink Floyd have agreed to sell music rights to Sony Music for $400 million.

variety.com

It’s interesting that this article seems to have slightly different details. Another article said they are only selling rights to the recordings but will retain publishing and control of their images. This says they are selling the rights to their images along with the rights to the recorded music.

 

[BlockInlay]

Does this mean ads for cars and boner pills and house cleaning chemicals and hemorrhoid cream will soon have PF music?

 

[jrockbridge]

Does this mean ads for cars and boner pills and house cleaning chemicals and hemorrhoid cream will soon have PF music?

Yes. Car commercials work better with a good soundtrack. And, since I’m getting to the age that boner pills and hemorrhoid cream are becoming more significant in my life, it’s important that the soundtracks to those commercials be something I enjoy.

 

[jp_nyc]

I was thinking about this and…how much licensing value does Pink Floyd’s music really have? At least half of their catalog is avant garde psychedelic music that’s still weird today. The Wall is a concept album about alienation and most of that isn’t going to work in advertising. Who is going to pay to use this music? Movie studios? I can understand Queen’s music selling for what it did, lots of those songs are fun. Bob Dylan songs will probably be covered hundreds of times a year for centuries. But I just don’t get the commercial value of most Pink Floyd songs.

 

[jrockbridge]

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I was thinking about this and…how much licensing value does Pink Floyd’s music really have? At least half of their catalog is avant garde psychedelic music that’s still weird today. The Wall is a concept album about alienation and most of that isn’t going to work in advertising. Who is going to pay to use this music? Movie studios? I can understand Queen’s music selling for what it did, lots of those songs are fun. Bob Dylan songs will probably be covered hundreds of times a year for centuries. But I just don’t get the commercial value of most Pink Floyd songs.

You’ve got excellent points. But, it could work if you think outside the box. Here’s an examples using “Another Brick In The Wall.”

Boners down across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A limp dick in the family album
Penis what else did you leave for me?
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Hey Viagra! Give my dick a lift!
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(If you can’t beat your meat, you don’t have an erection!
How can you have an erection if you don't take Viagra?)