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“I've not got a huge history with Gibson, but this one I bought to have a different tone”: From a forensic Black Strat replica to a Gibson that caught his ear and a ‘90s Zoom unit, here's everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit

Guitar World

“The Stratocaster is a clearer signal… the person who’s playing it is more recognizable on a Strat than on a Les Paul”: David Gilmour on breaking free from his past, the guitars he couldn’t face selling and why one Black Strat is as good as another

Luck and Strange, Gilmour’s first solo album in nine years, came together in a barn, features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a rotating cast of vintage guitars, and a producer who challenged him to take his sound to new places

Guitar World

“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

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David Gilmour will never perform with Roger Waters again

David Gilmour has dashed any remaining hopes of a Pink Floyd reunion by declaring he will never perform with Roger Waters again because he can't stand his political opinions.

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Pink Floyd ‘sell music rights’ for a colossal amount

Rock group are said to have handed over their name-and-likeness rights for reported deal

The Independent UK

A Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters? An unequivocal ‘no’, says David Gilmour

Guitarist says he’s ‘never had so much fun’ working on an album as with his new solo record, ‘Luck and Strange’

The Independent UK

David Gilmour and Polly Samson on death, drugs and married life after Pink Floyd

The guitarist and his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, talk to Geordie Greig about collaborating on his new album, the secret of their lasting love, their fears about mortality, and why there will never be a Floyd reunion with Roger Waters

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"Our heyday was ninety-five per cent musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter": David Gilmour on the past, the present and the future of Pink Floyd

David Gilmour on Rattle That Lock, Endless River, and 50 years of Pink Floyd

Louder

Watch the video for David Gilmour's brand new single The Pipers Call

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

Louder

"It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright features on David Gilmour's Luck And Strange

Louder

A new David Gilmour album is expected to be released in 2024

David Gilmour's wife Polly Samson has posted photos of him working in the studio with an array of musicians

Louder

‘He’s a control freak’: 12 bandmates who hate each other, from Pink Floyd to the Gallagher brothers

Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

The Independent UK

Roger Waters accused of using antisemitic language by Pink Floyd producer

Legendary Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin among those interviewed in documentary about Waters’ inflammatory behaviour

The Independent UK

Roger Waters to re-release stripped back version of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon

Rock album turns 50 this year, amid an ongoing feud between former bandmates Waters and David Gilmour

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The Independent UK

German police to probe Roger Waters over ‘Nazi uniform’ scandal

Pink Floyd co-founder shocked fans in the German capital this month

The Independent UK

Roger Waters ‘dresses as SS officer’ and projects Anne Frank’s name onto stage during gigs in Germany

Pink Floyd star opened concert with a statement saying he ‘condemns antisemitism unreservedly’

Louder

New book to lift the lid on David Gilmour's private life

David Gilmour's first wife Ginger's Behind The Wall will be published in May

Daily Mirror

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon cover designer shares what inspired iconic artwork

Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, who designed the iconic album cover, created a number of stories about the cover's creation to add to the mystery but Po has finally shared the true story

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The Independent UK

Roger Waters re-records Dark Side Of The Moon without rest of Pink Floyd

The 79-year-old described Ukraine as ‘not really a country at all’.

Tribune News Service

Roger Waters says Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine was ‘not unprovoked’

NEW YORK — Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters addressed the United Nations Security Council Wednesday, where he called for an end to the war in Ukraine without seeming to take a side.

Los Angeles Times

Pink Floyd lyricist slams Roger Waters as antisemitic ‘Putin apologist.’ He disagrees

It’s another brick in a decades-old wall: Musician David Gilmour and author-lyricist wife Polly Samson are calling out Gilmour’s former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters as antisemitic — and more.

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Pink Floyd feud: David Gilmour accuses Roger Waters of being ‘lip-synching anti-Semite’

Waters compared Israel to Nazi Germany and branded Joe Biden ‘a war criminal’ for supplying arms to Ukraine in a recent interview

Daily Mirror

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour selling seaside mansion for £15m amid neighbour hell

Pink Floyd rockstar David Gilmour has put his £15m mansion on the market just two years after finishing building work amid ongoing issues with his neighbours

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s a raw energy’: Hydra, artists’ haven, still casts its spell

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

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