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Sennheiser has announced a special edition of its HD1 Momentum wireless headphones to celebrate Pink Floyd and commemorate the opening of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: “Their Mortal Remains,” a retrospective of the legendary rock band that opened recently at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Although it was many years ago, I still cherish the time I worked with Gregg in the studio.

Early this week we sadly lost Sir Roger Moore, one of the great suave actors. Instead of trying to compare him to the other actors who played Bond (pointless), I’ll instead rank his Bond movies, from least best to most awesome (slightly less pointless).

This is the funniest classic film that doesn’t star the Marx Brothers and one of the best—certainly the most frantic—newspaper movies (outgunned only by the very different All the President’s Men). It also marks the peak in director Howard Hawks’ fling with super-fast pace and overlapping dialogue, which he’d pioneered over the previous two years, with Bringing Up Baby and Only Angels Have Wings, and which influenced many future directors, notably Robert Altman.