Sony Music adds another brick in the wall with Pink Floyd deal

Sony Music is in advanced talks to buy Pink Floyd’s music for up to $500 million after an earlier effort to auction one of the most coveted back catalogues in the industry was abandoned.

A 2022 attempt to sell the archive, which includes 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, one of the bestselling records of all time, and albums dating back to the 1960s, broke down amid personal disagreements between surviving members of the famously fractious group.

The auction attracted interest from music companies and investors, including Warner Music and BMG, the rival record labels, and Hipgnosis, the music rights group, but was said to have been derailed by a feud between Roger Waters, 81, the bass player, and Dave Gilmour, 78, the guitarist

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