AXS TV TAKES VIEWERS BEHIND ‘THE WALL’ WITH A BLOCK OF IN-DEPTH PROFILES & CONCERT FILMS CELEBRATING ROCK PIONEERS PINK FLOYD ON SUNDAY, MAY 21, AT 4pE/1pP
The Night Includes Roger Waters on THE BIG INTERVIEW, the 2008 Concert Doc DAVID GILMOUR – LIVE IN GDANSK, PINK FLOYD: BEHIND THE WALL, & More
LOS ANGELES – May 2, 2017 – AXS TV paints the town pink with a block of in-depth profiles and concert films celebrating influential rock and roll revolutionaries Pink Floyd on Sunday, May 21, starting at 4:00pE/1:00pP.
The block, titled SUNDAY NIGHT ROCKS: WISH YOU WERE HERE, kicks off at 4 p.m. ET with Roger Waters on THE BIG INTERVIEW, sitting down with Dan Rather to discuss his career, his passion for activism, and how he has incorporated it into his music. Next, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour rocks Poland on the final stop of his 2006 “On An Island” Tour, performing favorites such as “A Great Day For Freedom,” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Pocketful Of Stones” in DAVID GILMOUR: LIVE IN GDANSK, at 5:05pE. Then, a special ROCK LEGENDS episode profiling the career of Pink Floyd airs at 6:50pE.
The night continues at 7:25pE, with an insightful look at the highs and lows of the band’s monumental career—as told by the members, themselves—in the docuseries special PROFILES: PINK FLOYD: BEHIND THE WALL. And Roger Waters brings the house down with one of the most dynamic stage shows of all time, as he plays Pink Floyd’s landmark album THE WALL live in its entirety in the critically acclaimed 2014 concert film ROGER WATERS – THE WALL, at 9pE.
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