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"As a guitarist he has few peers but as a songwriter he's no Roger Waters": David Gilmour soars on beautifully crafted if ultimately unchallenging debut solo album

Released in between Pink Floyd's Animals and The Wall, David Gilmour's self-titled solo album laid the groundwork for future releases

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“I was on Battersea Bridge when the pig broke free. I drove to the power station and saw this look of schoolboy glee on Roger Waters’ face… ‘You sort this out, Po’”: Aubrey Powell’s Hipgnosis story

Storm Thorgerson’s right-hand man on breaking the law, pushing creative concepts, refusing to work with record labels, watching Pink Floyd get rich and staying friends by never taking sides

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“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

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“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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“We went through a few phrases… they went off to play in America and left me to get on with it, stripped to my underpants”: Atom Heart Mother’s fusion of ordinary and extraordinary sounds gave Pink Floyd their first No.1 album

It had a cow’s arse on the cover and a features track sampling their roadie cooking bacon – but their fifth record’s wild genius paved the way to their future

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“I've got a trove of stuff already, some of which I rather like.” With Pink Floyd “done”, David Gilmour hopes to start work on the follow-up to his hit solo album Luck and Strange in the new year

After the nine year wait for Luck and Strange, David Gilmour's sixth solo album might not be too far away:

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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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"The thing to do would be to have an AI situation where David and Roger become friends again": Nick Mason's hope for the future of Pink Floyd

Nick Mason says artificial intelligence might be Pink Floyd's only hope of reconcilation

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"I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist

Warning: Contains spoilers

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David Gilmour's prestige venue Luck and Strange tour now includes his first US dates in 8 years

Stellar live band includes Greg Philinganes on keys, Guy Pratt on bass and Adam Betts on drums

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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

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“It ended up very miserable. Even Roger Waters says what a miserable period it was – and he was the one who made it entirely miserable”: How Pink Floyd made The Final Cut and learned to hate each other

Set against the backdrop of the Falklands Conflict, the band’s last album with Waters came together while their break-up was on the horizon

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Why Tom Selleck Never Appeared In Jay Hernandez's Magnum P.I. Reboot

As the Magnum P.I. reboot comes to an end, showrunner Eric Guggenheim and EP Peter Lenkov explain why Tom Selleck never appeared.

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Highgate house where Pink Floyd was formed available to rent for £12,000pcm

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett all lived at the house on Stanhope Gardens in the sixties

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“There has always been friction between me and Roger… I think, ‘Why do you have to say these things?’” Richard Wright’s personality clash with Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters

Keyboardist's feud went as far back as refusing to give band leader a cigarette in their early days

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Richard Wright's Wet Dream set for July reissue

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright's debut solo album Wet Dream has been remixed by Steven Wilson

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How Blue Bloods Pulled Off Its Sweet Magnum P.I. Reunion With Tom Selleck This Spring

Blue Bloods had a long-awaited Magnum P.I. reunion this spring, and the way it was pulled off was a long time in the making.

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How A Momentary Lapse Of Reason caused all-out war for Pink Floyd

When Pink Floyd fell apart, Roger Waters took David Gilmour to court – and that's when the drama really began

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The story of The Great Gig In The Sky and the best £30 Pink Floyd ever spent

One of the highlights of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Clare Torry's vocal on The Great Gig In The Sky lifted the song to celestial heights

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Nick Mason weighs in on his new band, gong-banging and early Pink Floyd: 'We weren't very good!'

Pink Floyd fans were more than a little surprised when the long-defunct band's drummer, Nick Mason, began performing four years ago in Saucerful of Secrets, a group devoted to showcasing the music Pink Floyd made between 1967 and 1972. But not nearly as surprised as Mason, whose debut gig with…

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‘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

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