As we've mentioned in previous years, in the Netherlands, the public station Radio 2 has a very popular yearly countdown (from Christmas Day until New Year's Eve) of the 2000 best songs. Pink Floyd features heavily in the latest countdown, as they have done in previous years, with no less than eleven songs included, of which three are in the top 10.

Below are the Floyd tracks, along with how they've moved in the chart since last year. The poll itself is compiled from some 3 million voters across the Netherlands - about 20% of the population.

• No. 6: Wish You Were Here (unchanged)
• No. 8: Comfortably Numb (unchanged)
• No. 9: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (up 1 place)
• No. 56: Another Brick In The Wall (down 8 places)
• No. 171: Echoes (up 9 places)
• No. 277: Time (down 65 places)
• No. 286: The Great Gig In The Sky (down 34 places)
• No. 323: Money (down 52 places)
• No. 534: One Of These Days (down 12 places)
• No. 1322: See Emily Play (down 165 places)
• No. 1374: Arnold Layne (down 296 places)

The chart itself is topped by Hotel California (The Eagles), followed by Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), reversing their positions from the last two years, and Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin) remains in third spot yet again. Our thanks to Engelbert Huckreide for his help with this information.

Today (January 6th) would have seen Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett's 69th birthday, having been born in 1946, and we're marking this notable day.

We're sure that like us, many will have paid their own personal tributes to him, in remembrance of the impact he had on our lives - playing his music, enjoying some of his art work, and so on. We'd love to know how you are marking his huge contribution to our lives - email us, or join in the conversation over at our Facebook page.

One of the more interesting television appearances the band did in 1967 was on the BBC's Tomorrow's World, a science magazine show. During a story they did on experimentation with lights and sound, Mike Leonard is seen tinkering with such things whilst the band played a laid-back instrumental, unreleased elsewhere...

Today's Daily Mail in the UK includes an article written by Roger Waters.

Titled "My Pink Floyd hit and this tragedy", the article shares Roger's views on the treatment of terror suspects, and in particular Shaker Aamer, who has been held for almost 13 years in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. (As an aside, this website shows Roger attending the Shaker campaign launch outside London's Houses of Parliament).

It was Aamer's letter to a solicitor, using lyrics from Hey You, which brought his situation to Roger's attention, and the article clearly sets out Roger's view on the situation. You can read it in full here.

Snowy White's iconic 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop is an instrument that should find plenty of interest, when it is auctioned in February 2015.

This iconic guitar was acquired by Snowy in 1969 and has featured on almost every recording and performance since then, including the Pink Floyd Animals tour 1977, the Wall shows in 1980/81, Thin Lizzy 1980-82, the hit song 'Bird of Paradise' in 1984, Roger Waters' Berlin Wall show 1990, all the Roger Waters tours 1999-2013, and much more besides, including all Snowy's recording sessions for all his solo albums, and sessions for others, including the 'In The Skies' recording session with Peter Green. The current bridge on the guitar was given to Snowy by Peter in the seventies.

Snowy has owned this guitar for nearly 45 years, and for over 30 of those years it was his only instrument, played almost every day. As a working instrument, this guitar has had a certain amount of repair and change, including rewiring, refretting and new tuning heads. Most of the original parts have been kept. This guitar is offered 'as seen', with no apologies from Snowy as to its current condition.

This guitar will be offered at auction in Beverley Hills, California, on the 28th February 2015 by Heritage Auctions (HA.com) and here's Snowy talking about the guitar - and why he is getting rid of it:

UPDATE: BD reader Cal Kendall checked out the result of the sale, to determine the final price of the instrument in the auction. Cal discovered that it sold to some very lucky person for $93,750 (US).