David Gilmour
Guitarist DAVID GILMOUR Who Celebrates His 80th Birthday About PINK FLOYD
7 March 2026
Gilmour was born on 6 March 1946. Happy 80!
PINK FLOYD Top The UK’s Albums Charts This Xmas Day With ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’
25 December 2025
PINK FLOYD‘s grand 9th LP WISH YOU WERE HERE
celebrated its 50th anniversary last September.
The record was a tribute to their co-founder and legendary,
unorthodox songwriterr Syd Barrett (1946-2006).
In 1968 after being in the band for 3 years, he got fired
because of his unpredictable behavior due to drug abuse.
For the occasion, new digital and physical editions were launched a couple
of weeks ago and now today on Xmas the album tops the UK Albums Charts.
Former guitarist David Gilmour celebrates the No. 1 spot.
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SYD’s 2nd Solo LP ‘BARRETT’ Released 55 Years Ago Today With A Little Help Of Pink Friends
13 November 2025
Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and confused genius SYD BARRETT (1946-2006)
released his 2nd and final solo album, simply called BARRETT 50 years ago.
It was produced by PF’s guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright.
Wright: “Doing Syd’s record was interesting, but extremely difficult. Dave [Gilmour] and Roger [Waters] did the first one (The Madcap Laughs) and Dave and myself did the second one. But by then it was just trying to help Syd any way we could, rather than worrying about getting the best guitar sound. You could forget about that! It was just going into the studio and trying to get him to sing.”
Barrett about his 2 solo longplayers: “They’ve got to reach a certain standard and that’s probably reached in Madcap once or twice and on the other one only a little – just an echo
of that. Neither of them are much more than that.”
Barrett himself designed the LP’s cover.
The album didn’t chart. All fans had
forgotten about their former idol.
AllMusic: “Instrumentally, the result is a bit fuller and smoother than the first album,
although it’s since been revealed that Gilmour and Wright embellished these songs as
best they could without much involvement from Barrett, who was often unable or
unwilling to perfect his performance.
It was regarded as something of a charming but unfocused throwaway at the time
of its release, but Barrett’s singularly whimsical and unsettling vision holds up well.”
Turn Up The Volume: Probably still with his head in the clouds, Barrett showed
his songwriting skills again and recorded them with two Pink Floyds. A mix of folk,
pop, and psych-rock twists. Too bad it was already over after this second and final
studio LP. Wish the crazy diamond had produced some more magic. R.I.P.
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DAVID GILMOUR Remembers His Short Time With SYD BARRETT In PINK FLOYD
14 August 2025
The writing was on the dressing room wall.
Then And Now – DAVID GILMOUR
8 March 2025
Artist: DAVID GILMOUR
Who: The former guitarist/voice/songwriter of
the iconic Pink Floyd with who made/released
14 albums.
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All Music: “Throughout the album Gilmour sounds like he’s having some jamming
fun with his compatriots in his own particular blues-meets-the Home Counties style,
adding keyboard overdubs here and there (his efforts are passable, but it is
understandable why he’s known for his guitar work first and foremost).”
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The Telegraph (English newspaper): “The songs are cerebrally bold but really get
going when Gilmour finishes singing and launches into ambitious codas that remind
us what an extraordinarily gifted guitarist he is, with impeccable touch and tone that
can shift sublimely from tender melodiousness to flaming rock-outs.”
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UNCUT Magazine’s New Ultimate Music Guide – ‘FLOYD SOLO’
24 October 2024
“While it began life like a thrilling and improvised space craft, by the time of its most commercially successful work, PINK FLOYD was more like a corporation or a rebranded utility company. A highly-organized business with a streamlined visual message, not to mention a phenomenally high turnover.
As you’ll read in this new magazine, what this initially meant for the artistic aspirations
of the individual members told you a lot about the impulse to create. For David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason solo work clearly began as a release: a break from the responsibilities of the day job.
When Roger Waters (aged 81) quit the band in 1983, however, something changed
and solo music which had previously been a pleasing distraction assumed a far more competitive edge. For Waters, the ongoing existence of a Pink Floyd without him stung him into action: if you were in any doubt about his key contributions to the Pink Floyd albums then the many renderings of the material in his solo catalogue should put you straight.
The solo music that you’ll find covered in this new magazine is important on one
level as an inverse history of Pink Floyd. But there are other reckonings going on
within it. For Roger Waters it has become a political/personal platform.
For David Gilmour (78 now) meanwhile, it has been a place to articulate himself at
his own leisurely pace, and share his thoughts on the consolations of love and family.
Most recent Pink Floyd member’s solo LP. Luck And Strange by David Gilmour.
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Keyboardist Richard Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) and drummer Nick Mason (80) do not have a large catalogue of work, and seem to have ultimately been rather hard done by the Pink Floyd experience.
The most important solo career here, though is the one which flowered most briefly:
that of Syd Barrett. The music on his two solo albums is abstract, playful, and sometimes barely there, testament to a personality and mental health which wasn’t built to thrive within the demands of the pop business.
Syd Barrett‘s debut LP The Madcap Laughs (1970).
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ICE-T/BODY COUNT And DAVID GILMOUR Get Comfortably Numb Together
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
23 September 2024
BODY COUNT‘s loudmouth ICE-T, according to Rolling Stone magazine, contacted both David Gilmour and Roger Waters after their publisher declined BC to record a new version with updated lyrics of Comfortably Numb from the 1979 album The Wall.
Ice-T: “When we originally contacted their publisher, they said ‘no’. It was not a diss,
but kind of like ‘Pink Floyd doesn’t do samples. They don’t do ads, either.’ We were fucked.
I wasn’t going to take the lyrics and put it on another track. I was just going to burn it.”
“Once we got to David, he was like, ‘Fuck, yeah. I love this song. I approve it.’ And then
Roger listened to it and his only comment was, ‘Who’s singing?’ When he heard it was Ice-T,
he approved it.’ To have two people who sit on two opposite sides of the fence agree on a
song, that means it must be good.”
Eventually, Gilmour offered to play guitar on the new track, which
will appear on Body Count’s forthcoming album Merciless.
Ice-T about the song itself: “I can turn on and watch the war in Ukraine, or I can watch
the Israel situation, and then click off and then start watching sports. Or I could watch a
kid get murdered by a cop or somebody come out and shoot their old lady, and then play my video game. We are just kind of numb to everything that’s going on, the starvation in the world, everything. It must have struck a nerve in both of those guys. I don’t think they would have approved it had I made a record like “Comfortable Buns” or some shit.”
Wake up people,
don’t be pink numb,
count the floyd.
BODY COUNT & GILMOUR
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Soulful Sunday With New DAVID GILMOUR Album ‘LUCK AND STRANGE’
15 September 2024
Former Pink Floyd guitar hero DAVID GILMOUR (aged 78 now) has released his 5th solo LP, titled LUCKY AND STRANGE. He can’t or doesn’t want to hide that he was a key Pink Floyd member, musically and vocally. If ever (read: never) PF would reunite, Gilmour can offer a lot of his solo material as (new) Pink Floyd songs.
MOJO: “It’s brilliant, moving stuff, and if this were to be David Gilmour’s final record, it’s certainly the best of his solo career. Nonetheless, he has said he’s keen to get on with another album with the same team as soon as humanly possible. His ultimate realisation appears to be, as Dylan put it on Time Out Of Mind at the relatively sprightly age of 56, that it’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.” Score: 4/5.
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MOJO – New Issue With Cover Star DAVID GILMOUR Who Has His New Album ‘LUCK AND STRANGE’ Out
13 September 2024
MOJO present an in-depth chat with former Pink Floyd‘s guitarist
DAVID GILMOUR (78) who released his 5th LP LUCK AND STRANGE
last week. Stream it below.
Also in the issue: Joni Mitchell’s jazz-rock revolution; the birth of the Ramones;
Randy Newman and the ‘n’ word; Laura Marling, The B-52’s’ riot of colour; Sade;
Lone Justice; MC5; Lou Reed; The Pogues; Tav Falco and more.
This month’s FREE CD named Point Me At The Sky. 15 tracks of Floyd-adjacent psych from the golden age, featuring Soft Machine, The Pretty Things, The Action, Blossom Toes, Apple and more.
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