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These 5 rock acts took more than 20 years to record a new album

Go ahead and take your time, fellas.

Word leaked Saturday that elderly British rockers Pink Floyd will soon release their first new album in 20 years. “The Endless River,” a disc of mainly ambient and instrumental music, is coming out in October.

Two decades sure seems like a long time to wait between releases, and it’s unclear what the band’s members have been busy doing in the meantime. Gardening? Assembling a really difficult puzzle?

Pink Floyd is hardly the only band to take its sweet time between records. Here are five more groups that forced their fans to grow old (or even die) waiting for the next album to drop.

The Eagles
28 years

The break between 1979’s “The Long Run” and 2007’s “Long Road Out of Eden” could be chalked up to an acrimonious breakup that included name-calling, in-fighting and lawsuits.

My Bloody Valentine
22 years

The noisy band broke up in the late 1990s, only to reform more than a decade later and release 2013’s “m b v.”

New York Dolls
32 years

“Too Much Too Soon” was released in 1974, then the group members went
their separate ways until 2006’s “One Day It Will Please Us to
Remember Even This.” Former Smiths frontman Morrissey had a hand in
the reunion.

The Yardbirds
36 years

The guitar-centric band, which has included Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page over the years, returned in 2003 with an album called “Birdland” — albeit with a different lineup. Their previous release was 1967’s “Little Games.”

Cat Stevens
28 years

He stayed away so long, he had to change his name. Cat Stevens left with 1978’s “Back to Earth.” He reappeared as Yusuf Islam with 2006’s “An Other Cup.”