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Contents 1 Date of Birth 2 Not an Official Band Member? 3 Pie Crust 4 Parker-Bowles Pad 5 31st May 2006 6 Recent Picture? 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Insideoutmason.jpg 8 =Childhood music lessons

[edit] Date of Birth

What's going on with Nick's date of birth?

These sources give it as 1944:

• the text of this article
• the 1944 article
• most Google hits for "Nick Mason date of birth" and similar queries

These sources give it as 1945:

• the 1945 article
• the January 27 article
• the categorisation of this article
• one or two Google hits

Does anyone have evidence of which is correct? -- Smjg 17:18, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes! Nick Mason himself, through the medium of his book Inside out, states that it is 1944. I have removed the 'disputed' tag on the article and modified the 1945 and January 27 articles on the basis that the horse's mouth constitutes a pretty incontrovertible source. (And due to the lack of response to your perfectly valid query). --HighHopes 19:23, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Not an Official Band Member?

For some reason I remember there was a time that he was not an Official member of Pink Floyd, some time around the recording of or just before "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" which is why his name and Wright's are smaller than Gilmore's in the credits on the album cover. Is this verified anywhere? Billy Nair 23:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Mason is actually the only member of Pink Floyd who has been a official member since they started in 1965. It was Richard Wright's name that was smaller in the AMLoR-sleeve since he only was a hired session musician for Floyd back then. Although Pink Floyd only was made up by Gilmour and Mason when AMLor was released, it has later been relived by Gilmour that booth Mason and Wright contributions were fairly minimal, only playing one or very few songs each. This was partly because the album started as a solo project by Gilmour, but he then (six months before release) decided to turn it into a Pink Floyd project. Bjurbeck (talk) 21:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pie Crust

What does Nick Mason have against pie crust? ("I'll have apple pie, without any crust")

Pie crust is full of additional calories. I do likewise. Sidar 04:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Parker-Bowles Pad

He bought the Parker-Bowles pad, Middlewich, off them after their divorce. Anon user 19:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 31st May 2006

Nick joined David Gilmour and band on stage at the Royal Albert Hall on 31st May 2006. He played drums on the final two songs - Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb.

[edit] Recent Picture?

How about a recent picture? If I come across one accidently I'll see about putting it up. Gmip 06:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Insideoutmason.jpg

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[edit] =Childhood music lessons

"He has claimed that he took some failed violin and piano lessons as a child." Is there any reason to doubt him? I would like to change "claimed" to "mentioned" unless a verifiable source gives a reason for doubt. VisitorTalk 05:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)