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David Gilmour

March 2023

  • Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, 1983.

    From the Guardian archive
    Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut: ‘an awkward album’ – archive, 1983

    17 March 1983: The follow-up to The Wall is a mini-epic written by Roger Waters, subtitled ‘a requiem for the post war dream’

February 2023

  • Polly Samson and Roger Waters.

    Pink Floyd lyricist calls Roger Waters an antisemite and ‘Putin apologist’

    Waters has replied that he ‘refutes entirely’ the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ made by Polly Samson, lyricist and wife of guitarist Dave Gilmour

April 2022

  • David Gilmour and Nick Mason, flanked by Nitin Sawhney and Guy Pratt, who have contributed to the new Pink Floyd recording.

    ‘This is a crazy, unjust attack’: Pink Floyd re-form to support Ukraine

    Exclusive: Disgusted by the Russian invasion, David Gilmour speaks about band’s first brand new song in 28 years, which samples a Ukrainian musician now on the front line – and expresses ‘disappointment’ in Roger Waters

April 2021

  • Polly Samson and husband David Gilmour on the Greek isalnd of Hydra.

    The soundtrack of my travels
    Polly Samson’s playlist: 10 songs from my travels

  • Rock’s sideman of choice ... Pino Palladino, left, with Blake Mills.

    Pino Palladino, pop's greatest bassist: 'I felt like a performing monkey!'

May 2020

  • Phil May of the Pretty Things in 2018.

    Phil May, frontman with the Pretty Things, dies aged 75

    Singer revered by David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix had complications in hospital following hip surgery

February 2020

  • Mick Fleetwood at the Palladium.

    Mick Fleetwood review – rousing all-star celebration of Peter Green

    A surprise appearance by original Fleetwood Mac member Jeremy Spencer was just one of the highlights in a concert where Noel Gallagher, Steven Tyler and others paint Green’s blues

November 2019

  • Riding the gravy train? David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall in September.

    David Gilmour in legal fight with composer of French SNCF train jingle

    Michaël Boumendil has appealed court decision to throw out his case against the Pink Floyd guitarist for alleged misuse of music

March 2019

  • Black Stratocaster

    Comfortably strum: David Gilmour's Black Strat goes on display

    Pink Floyd star’s guitar will be exhibited in London before being sold for charity in June

July 2018

  • Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour in 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    David Gilmour, a veteran still in the pink – archive, 1978

    4 July 1978 Pink Floyd normally works in democratic huddles and its members spurn personal publicity, but Gilmour steps briefly out of line to talk about his first solo album

May 2017

  • ***BESTPIX*** Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains - Preview<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 09: A display showing the Division Bell metal heads during a preview of the Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains at The V&amp;A on May 9, 2017 in London, England. The exhibition is an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world, from high tech audio-visual events, objects, surreal landscapes, and the culture explosions that evolve throughout the exhibition. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains review – look, a flying pig!

    V&A, London
    The refracting prism, the businessman ablaze, the giant inflatable pig: they may be pop’s most anonymous band, but Pink Floyd’s artwork is instantly recognisable – as this stunning V&A show proves

February 2017

  • Nick Mason and Roger Waters

    Two-thirds of Pink Floyd raise prospect of playing Glastonbury

    Only Dave Gilmour, with whom Roger Waters has a poor relationship, was missing from a press conference at the V&A

November 2016

  • Never really relaxed … Pink Floyd in 1968, (from left) Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Roger Waters.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965-72 review – 27 discs of dogged creativity

    This exhaustive document of Pink Floyd’s sonic explorations contains some tantalising glimpses of the different paths they could have taken – as well as 15 versions of Careful With That Axe, Eugene

October 2016

  • Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd unite to support the Women's Boat to Gaza

    David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters issue statement in support of campaigners who oppose Israel’s ‘siege of Gaza’ and were arrested this week

August 2016

  • David Gilmour and son

    David Gilmour: ‘I’ve been bonded to Charlie since he was three. We were incensed by the injustice’

    Charlie Gilmour went to prison for climbing the Cenotaph in 2011. Three years later, he returned to prison to hear a concert that changed his life – and his family’s

July 2016

  • David Gilmour playing the amphiteatre in Pompeii for the first time in 45 years since Pink Floyd recorded a concert film there in 1971, and the first time ever since the erruption of Vesuvius in AD79 that there has been an event with an audience in the venue.

    The Guardian picture essay
    David Gilmour live at Pompeii – a photo essay

  • David Gilmour plays the amphitheatre in Pompeii

    David Gilmour review – Pompeii rocks again

March 2016

  • David Gilmour is set to play at Pompeii on 7 and 8 July.

    David Gilmour, Pink Floyd guitarist, to play in Pompeii

    Forty-five years after the band made a documentary at site, the rock musician is to return for concerts at Roman amphitheatre

October 2015

  • Medina House

    Ex-Pink Floyd guitarist to rescue derelict listed building

  • David Gilmour playing a sold-out concert at the Royal Albert Hall on the day his new album entered the charts at No 1.

    David Gilmour: behind the scenes with a guitar legend – in pictures

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