Today he turns 77 Nick Mason, drummer and co-founder of Pink Floyd. He is the only musician who has played on all of the band’s records, since its formation in 1965.
Nick is also an amateur car driver and has participated in various racing events, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he shared a car with Chilean Eliseo Salazar in 1983.
And not only that, Mason became the new Knight Commander of the British Empire, after being decorated by the British royal family in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2019 for his contribution to music.
Nicholas Mason, the drummer from rock band @pinkfloyd received a CBE for services to Music from The Duke of Cambridge. Nicholas featured on every album produced by the band since he co-founded them in 1965. pic.twitter.com/7cEddkzwkQ
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) May 2, 2019
Since 2018, Nick Mason leads his own band that performs the compositions of the early years of Pink Floyd, Saucerful Of Secrets (like the band’s second album).
On Pink Floyd, Nick mentioned that he refuses to do a biopic in the style of Bohemian Rhapsody.
“No, no, not in a million years “, Mason expressed to the portal ABC. “I think the film is brilliant in its intention to reflect the story of Queen, but we should never do something similar, because we have a very particular story, in which there has been always two people who controlled everything“.
“We would never agree on the scriptNick Mason added.
This year, the gigantic exhibition Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains will be staged for the first time in America, on a date to be confirmed in Los Angeles, California.
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