USA 1987

	Pink Floyd 1987
You can click on each article.	Article in B.T. Article in Vestegnen Article in Folkebladet Article in a magazine	In 1987 I won a trip with MTV-Europe, to go to USA and meet with Pink Floyd. It was a experience beyond any description. Here you see some of the newspaper clippings form the time when I was a star ! Ah, sweet memories... Of course I was on MTV too, but that's a little hard to show on this home page. As a matter of fact, they spend an entire MTV-hour telling about my trip, when I got back home. (All together that's almost 20 minutes about Georg's adventures!) Many of the pictures I'd taken where on the shown and of course I was there on the phone. The competition I won was merely to write one's name on a card and enter it. Like it says in the articles I entered 28 letter in all shapes and colors. I even mailed a bag of M&M's with my name on it - wonder if that ever made it all the way ? I just wanted to win that competition - and I did! It was a five days trip, but one day went with the flight back and forth. When we arrived in San Francisco we were picked up in a stretched white limousine at the airport and taken to the newest hotel in town. The next day we were taken to a different hotel - one of the finer. We were wondering why; but we found out as we went down in the bar in the evening. It was the hotel Pink Floyd stayed in. So there we stood in the bar for a while, chatting and drinking champagne with David Gilmour and Nick Mason. (By the way Mason's wife was half Danish). The competition was called "learning to fly" after one of their hits back then. Therefore I was, as it says in the articles, going to "learn to fly". Unfortunately the bands plane had broken down earlier on the tour , so we went by ordinary plane traffic. There, apparently, Gilmour found that he couldn't put me in the cockpit and teach me how to fly...... I'm not complaining; that wasn't what I came for!!
Warning 23.4 MB	See the commercial from the competition	I've got the commercial from the competition here for you to see. Just note that it is very large; 23,4 MB in all. It's a shame, cause it's fun to watch. If you're a Floyd fan you'll enjoy it too. Simply because MTV really tried to create the commercial in the spirit of Floyd with a lot of different Floyd tracks in the background too. I remember Rick Krim from MTV telling that Gilmour had liked the commercial too. The only little thing he worried about, was that the word KAOS was mentioned. He freared that some people might think that it was a hint to an album released by a different artist that year (guess who...)
	Backstage pass (Please note : "access all areas" !)	As you can see, as a celebrity you also get stuff like backstage passes. That's the reason the ticket you see hasn't been torn, cause as a star you don't enter with the mob. The Limo driver discreetly drives around to the back entrance. From there we could go backstage with Pink Floyd. Back there we were treated with all kinds of cool drinks. And when the band began to prepare themselves, it was time for us to go find our seats too.
	Ticket from the Oakland concert	We watched two concerts with Pink Floyd. One in San Francisco and one in Seattle.In both cities we were driving in limousines and both places we got backstage passes. Both places we stayed at a fine hotel with Pink Floyd. Oh yeah... star life.

From Left : Georg, Brian, Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Magda Palmer and Mark Malone

The competition had an American version too. This was won by a guy called Mark Malone. Not only did he win the trip with the two concerts. No, the name of the competition was "learning to fly", so he won a plane ! Just like the one we're standing next to on this photo.
MTV made some kind of commercial for MTV, back then in San Francisco, called "people really win on MTV". That's what you see on this photo. In the middle Mason and Gilmour. To the right Mark and myself to the left. Then we all together had to say loud and clear : "People really win on MTV" We did and so I did (...win on MTV) I've got this commercial on tape, but and one of these days I'll get it uploaded to this site so that you might see it.

Of course I got the bands autographs on "A momentary Lapse of Reason". A little hard to recognize but what the ... - they are there!.
Nick Mason to the left. David Gilmour to the right and Rick Wright just below Gilmour. Wright's there though you can't see it on this photo - but he's there all right.