12 March 2019
The Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Canada, saw the start of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
2019 tour, which took in 50 shows in North America, Europe, and the UK. Amongst these shows was a concert at
the French town of Nimes, where the band's guitarist, Lee Harris, had the idea of a band involving Nick whilst
watching a David Gilmour concert at the same venue a few years earlier.
13 April 2019
Pink Floyd mark Record Store Day, an initiative to help independent record stores by releasing limited editions
exclusively through participating stores (not online), with a reproduction – including the Columbia logo
found on the original – of their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets on vinyl, remastered by James
Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman from the original 1968 analogue mono mix.
18 April 2019
During the first night of the pair of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets concerts held at the Beacon Theatre
in New York City, Roger Waters joined the band to sing, and strike the gong during, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
20 May 2019
Nick Mason was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to Music from
The Duke of Cambridge in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London.
7 June 2019
To mark, and celebrate, the 25th anniversary of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album, a limited, translucent blue,
heavyweight double vinyl edition was released. It featured the two-LP master created for the 20th anniversary release in 2014.
20 June 2019
The sale of the David Gilmour Guitar Collection at Christie's New York, in aid of the charity ClientEarth, took place. The sale of
over 120 of David's guitars was very successful, raising $21,490,750. It was the most valuable musical instrument sale in auction history,
and took place in a pair of packed salesrooms (a second room opening due to sheer volume of people). Of the 126 lots sold, there were a
few record breakers. In particular, the Black Strat achieved $3,975,000, setting a world auction record for any guitar, at the time.
Christie's noted that, in the lead up to the auction, over 12,000 fans booked hour-long time slots at the tour stops in London, Los Angeles
and New York to get up-close to the guitars. In excess of 500,000 people viewed the content around the sale on Christies.com, and more
than 2,000 bidders from 66 countries registered for the sale.
2/6 October 2019
Participating cinemas worldwide screened the Roger Waters concert recording of his Us + Them tour, which was followed by a short documentary
looking at the preparations for the tour. Due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, the general release of this recording was delayed, coming
out one year after these screenings, in October 2020.
29 November 2019
A preview release on double vinyl LP and CD, presented highlights of the upcoming The Later Years 1987-2019 box set bringing together a
flavour of the full set, taking in tracks from Knebworth, The Division Bell sessions, the Momentary Lapse remix,
Delicate Sound Of Thunder, and more. This had different artwork to the box set.
13 December 2019
The Later Years 1987-2019 was released, consisting of 5 CDs in a 60-page hardback book, 6 Blu-rays and 5 DVDs, two 7" vinyl singles,
a 40-page hardback photo book, replica tour programmes, and a reproduction memorabilia collection. The set included over six hours of previously
unheard audio and over seven hours of previously unseen audiovisuals from A Momentary Lapse of Reason, The Division Bell, and
The Endless River albums, with remixes and surround mixes alongside unreleased material.
