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"Pink Floyd&amp;#039;s David Gilmour and Procol Harum&amp;#039;s Gary Brooker were among the members of an all-star band who performed in celebration of Douglas Adams&amp;#039;s birthday last night (March 11) in London. The musicians, who were long-standing friends of Adams&amp;#039;s, headlined the &amp;quot;virtual 60th birthday&amp;quot; of the late Hitchhiker&amp;#039;s Guide to the Galaxy author at the Hammersmith Apollo. Other members of the band, who were introduced by Richard Curtis, included guitarist Robbie McIntosh, percussionist Jodi Linscott, synth player Paul &amp;#039;Wix&amp;#039; Wickens, singer Margo Buchanan, bassist Dave Bronze and Paul Beavis on drums. McIntosh opened the set before being joined by the rest of the band in stages. Gilmour joined the band and sung Pink Floyd hit &amp;#039;Wish You Were Here&amp;#039;. He also played lead guitar on the Brooker-led closing track &amp;#039;Whiter Shade Of Pale&amp;#039;.      The full setlist was as follows. &amp;#039;Dadi&amp;#039; (sung by Robbie McIntosh) &amp;#039;Scarecrow&amp;#039; (sung by Robbie McIntosh) &amp;#039;Rockstar&amp;#039; (sung by Margo Buchanan) &amp;#039;I Just Want To Make Love To You&amp;#039; (sung by Margo Buchanan) &amp;#039;A Salty Dog&amp;#039; (sung by Gary Brooker) &amp;#039;Wish You Were Here&amp;#039; (sung by David Gilmour) &amp;#039;Too Much Monkey Business&amp;#039; (sung by Gary Brooker) &amp;#039;A Whiter Shade Of Pale&amp;#039; (sung by Gary Brooker) Adams died of a heart attack in May 2001 at the age of 49. Other performers during the evening of comedy, science, talk and music included Robin Ince, Jon Culshaw, Terry Jones, Sanjeev Bhaskar, John Lloyd, Angus Deayton, Rory McGrath, Philip Pope and Simon Singh. Stars including Stephen Fry and Neil Gaiman recorded messages in honour of Adams&amp;#039;s birthday. When he was alive, Adams played &amp;#039;Brain Damage&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Eclipse&amp;#039; with Pink Floyd at one of their shows at London&amp;#039;s Earl&amp;#039;s Court in 1994. Proceeds from last night&amp;#039;s event were donated to Save the Rhino International, the Environmental Investigation Agency and the Gorilla Organisation. Watch Douglas Adams talk &amp;#039;Parrots the Universe and Everything&amp;#039; at UCSB recorded in 2001 below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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