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Nicholas Berkeley Mason was born on January 27th, 1944 in Birmingham, England to a documentary filmmaker, Bill Mason. While studying at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), Mason teamed up with Roger Waters, Bob Klose and Richard Wright in 1964 to form Sigma 6. Shortly afterward, Syd Barrett would join Waters, Mason, Klose, and Wright and eventually re-name themselves Pink Floyd. Since then, Mason has appeared on every Pink Floyd album and contributed to some of Floyd’s most popular songs, “A Sauce Full of Secrets,” “Time,” and “Echoes,” among others.

Mason also has a love for auto racing, even running a his own company Ten Tenths. He has competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest sports car race in endurance racing.

Mason currently resides in Hampstead, England with his second wife, Nettie. Mason has four children; two daughters (Holly and Chloe) from his first marriage and two sons (Guy and Cary) from his second.