Age no bar. Pink Floyd fans were giddy with nostalgia when Roger Waters rocked the night at his recent concert in Mumbai
Picture
this. Twenty thousand music lovers, standing with arms raised on a dusty
ground in the Bandra Kurla Complex, singing in chorus, "I've become
comfortably numb."
Standing right behind me were three khaki cops, numb on duty, expressions of utter bewilderment on their faces. Imagine the sight. Speechless cops gaping at Pink Floyd fans pouring their hearts out in all their loved songs.
I, too, was one of them. With friends, including a Sikh father and his 25-year-old daughter who had specially flown in from Delhi. As others did from Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and heaven-knows-where.
Heaven it was, those two hours and 40 minutes that flew by in a wink as Roger Waters, the man who wrote all the lyrics of The Dark Side Of The Moon (one of the top five selling albums of all time), Wish You Were Here, Animals and almost all lyrics on The Wall, gave India an insight into the glorious rock music of the '70s. He was in superb form, this legend who named his oldest daughter India.
"Remember, when you were young, you shone like the sun, shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond." For those few hours, we all became young again. Swept up by the emotions of a song written by Roger Waters for the eccentic Syd Barrett, who formed Pink Floyd in 1966, taking the first names of blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council of Georgia, USA.
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