Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
David Jon Gilmour (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l m ɔː r / GHIL-mor; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett . [ 1 ]
In February 2006, Gilmour was interviewed for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which announced that Pink Floyd had disbanded. [242] Gilmour said that Pink Floyd were "over", citing his advancing age and his preference for working alone. [242] He and Waters repeatedly said that they had no plans to reunite. [243] [244] [nb 49]
It was an unusual mix, and Gilmour is conscious of what Pink Floyd brought. “Fame and fortune are very double-edged, too much success, too much adulation, too much money – a recipe for ...
Pink Floyd were inactive until 1986, following legal battles between members. [30] Gilmour began recruiting musicians in 1986, for what would later become Pink Floyd. [ 31 ] He rehired Wright, but could only add him as a contract musician.
(Pink Floyd’s remaining founding member is drummer Nick Mason.) The album is handsome and searching and muscular, and after our talk Gilmour plays most of it onstage at the Bowl while throwing a ...
Gilmour says that Samson has “a remarkable ability to … write from her own perspective but have it [come out] universal.” While Pink Floyd’s music—mostly featuring lyrics by bassist ...
They serve as bookends to the instrumental track "Terminal Frost", and feature David Gilmour's voice, electrically distorted, through a vocoder and a rising synth note.The narrator seems to express weariness with a lifetime spent in one body, waiting for the moment of death, but seeks consolation in the fact that this "waiting" will eventually end.
David Gilmour has shut down any suggestions that he and his former Pink Floyd bandmate will perform together again. In a new interview with The Guardian, Gilmour declared he would “absolutely ...