Pink Floyd reportedly in “advanced” talks to sell catalogue in multi-million-dollar deal

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Pink Floyd are reportedly in talks to sell their catalogue at a price that’s apparently between $400million and $500million.Sources have stated in a Variety report that Sony Music is in “advanced” talks to acquire the band’s recorded music rights for a hefty price.Variety claims that the deal has been complicated in recent years due to former bassist Roger Waters‘ political statements, most recently against Israel and Ukraine.

In response, Gilmour had attacked Waters with claims of anti-Semitism.Earlier this month, Gilmour spoke about selling the band’s catalogue in an interview with Rolling Stone. “To be rid of the decision making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going is my dream,” he said, stating that it’s mainly to do with “getting out of the mud bath” – one that’s likely referring to Waters’ controversial and outspoken views.In February, Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson shared a tweet in which she accused Waters of being “anti-Semitic to [his] rotten core”, as well as “a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac”.Gilmour then re-shared Samson’s tweet, adding that “every word [is] demonstrably true”.Waters himself issued a statement in response, which saw him describe Samson’s comments as “incendiary and wildly inaccurate” and continued that he “refutes [them] entirely”.

He added that he was “taking advice as to his position” regarding the claims.Samson’s comments came after Waters took part in an interview with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, and shared his views on Israel and the Russian-Ukraine war.Per a translated version of the interview on Waters’ site, the musician was at one point asked if he still believed –.