Few people still had faith in Pink Floyd when band member in the mid-80s. Guitarist and singer kept the British group together and under his direction they grew into a perfectly directed stadium band. Initially they mainly relied on the classic albums from the 70s, but in 1994 they added the excellent . This studio album and the less powerful (1987) form the basis for The Later Years 1987 -
… 2019. The best songs from this were revised and remixed by Gilmour and drummer . But Pink Floyd was mainly a live band during that period. Unreleased recordings of a performance at the British Knebworth festival in 1990 are therefore the big treat. The Later Years 1987 - 2019 is the excerpt from a bulky box set. With a perfect sound and a lot of timeless, dreamy space rock such as only they could make, it shows why Pink Floyd managed to grow into perhaps the greatest rock bands in the world in those later years. (MR)more
