Nick Mason's knee replacement surgery and its impact on his drumming career

In 2018, Nick Mason underwent knee replacement surgery, which forced him to postpone the launch of his Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets tour. Originally scheduled to start in May of that year, the tour was pushed back to September to allow for recovery. Mason later joked that the operation “took the edge off” his playing for a while, but he was back behind the kit without missing a beat.

It wasn’t the first time a joint replacement had slowed him down. Mason had a hip replacement about a decade earlier—