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Pink Floyd's 1973 release The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the biggest selling albums of all time. The record features the singles Money and Us and Them and has sold roughly 45 million copies. Image Credit: Supplied picture

Manchester: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has said the legendary rock band could reunite to play charity gigs, media reports said.

Speaking at Manchester's In The City event on Friday, Mason said that he thought bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour also support the idea.

"I think it would be a very nice way for a band to gently move towards retirement, by doing shows absolutely for charity rather than for more income," he told BBC News. “In a way the best thing would be to do a number of shows and have some sort of foundation."

The band played together at Live 8 in 2005 along with keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008, and Mason said that he believes all of the remaining members "would like the idea of repeating the Live 8 concept". He added that he thinks all three currently "see eye to eye" on the issue.

The group has sold 200 million albums. Roger Waters and David Gilmour famously fell out in the 1980s but charity recently brought the pair back together for the first time since Live 8. They performed three Pink Floyd classics for the Hoping Foundation, which helps Palestinian children, in Oxfordshire in July.