Nick Mason
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Nicholas Berkeley Mason, (born 27 January 1944), is an English drummer best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Mason is the only Pink Floyd member to have been featured on all of their studio albums and the band's only remaining member since its inception in 1965.
According to reports, the company has sold over 250 million records globally as of 2010.
"Echoes," "Time," "Careful With That Axe Eugene," and "One of These Days" were among Pink Floyd songs written by Mason.
He formed Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in 2018 to perform Pink Floyd's early years's hits.
Early life
Mason was born in Birmingham on January 27, 1944 to Ailsa Sarah (née Kershaw), and Bill Mason, a documentary filmmaker; Nick's paternal grandfather was Rowland Hill Berkeley, who was Lord Mayor of Birmingham from 1904 to 1905.
Mason was born in Hampstead, London, and attended the Hall School, Hampstead, and Frensham Heights School, near Farnham, Surrey. When researching architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), he formed Sigma 6, the early incarnation of Pink Floyd, with Roger Waters, Bob Klose, and Richard Wright in 1964. Waters and Mason acquired a flat near Crouch End in London, rented by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic. Mason left after the 1964 academic year.
Personal life
Mason's first marriage (1969) was to Lindy Rutter, with whom he had two children, Chloe and Holly. Lindy, a woodwind player, performed flute on Ummagumma's "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party." Mason married Annette Lynton (Nettie), an actress also known for her adjudication work on the second series of Treasure Hunt in 1984. They have two sons, Cary and Guy, and they live in Hampstead, London. They have owned Middlewick House, Andrew and Camilla Parker Bowles' Grade II listed former home, just outside the Wiltshire town of Corsham.
According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2015–2016, his net worth stood at £75 million. He is a licensed pilot and pilot and pilots and pilots an Aerospatiale AS 350 Squirrel helicopter in specially painted colours.
Mason is a member of Football Ventures, a group that purchased Bolton Wanderers Football Club out of bankruptcy in August 2019. Arsenal F.C.'s supporter is Roger Sanchez, who is a fan of the Arsenal F.C.
In a December 2021 episode of Portrait Artist of the Year, semi-finalists painted Mason's portrait.
Mason has appeared in concert with Roger Waters to raise funds for the Countryside Alliance, a group that protested the removal of fox hunting from the Hunting Act 2004. Both performed at Highclere Castle in Hampshire in 2007 in aid of the company.
He is both a board member and co-chairman of the Featured Artists' Union. Mason has voiced support for musicians' rights and offered tips to younger musicians in a rapidly evolving music market as a spokesperson for the corporation.
Mason has joined Roger Waters in supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel over the Israeli–Palestinian war, and has advised the Rolling Stones not to play in Israel in 2014.
Mason is an atheist.