{"id":533679,"date":"2026-04-16T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:20:08","slug":"pink-floyd-bassist-guy-pratt-takes-up-bell-ringing-in-east-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533679\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt takes up bell ringing in East Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s a rock star who has toured the world and worked with some of the biggest stars in music, but now former Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt wants to &#8220;properly embrace village life&#8221; with his new hobby &#8211; bell ringing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pratt moved near Alfriston, East Sussex, three years ago and discovered bell ringing sessions at St Andrews Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 64-year-old said: &#8220;Bell ringing really struck a chord, I thought that&#8217;s a really wonderful thing to do being part of the community and it&#8217;s musical. I&#8217;m a terrible worrier of things dying out, so I thought I&#8217;d come and try it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The musician replaced Pink Floyd&#8217;s original bassist Roger Waters in 1987 and worked on the iconic band&#8217;s final album to consist of entirely new material, The Division Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s a rock star who has toured the world and worked with some of the biggest stars in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}