As a guitarist and singer in Pink Floyd, David Gilmour has had one of the profitable, influential and mind-expanding careers in British rock music – and as he releases a brand new solo album and goes on tour, he might be taking in your questions.
Now 78, Gilmour’s tenure with Pink Floyd stretches again to 1967, when he was drafted in to switch Syd Barrett, who was struggling together with his psychological well being. With a guitar tone rooted within the earthiness of the blues however given a cosmically epic scale, Gilmour performed an enormous half in taking the band from bug-eyed psych to a a lot grander, statelier sound – one which got here to outline progressive rock.
In addition to deploying much-admired solos, Gilmour additionally took or shared lead vocals on a considerable variety of the band’s best-known songs – Cash, Want You Have been Right here, Comfortably Numb and extra – as they launched one iconic album after one other. Friction constructed up, although, with the keyboardist Richard Wright leaving after 1979’s The Wall and Roger Waters in 1985, leaving Gilmour to guide the band for 3 additional studio albums, together with to multiplatinum success with 1994’s The Division Bell.
2014’s The Countless River was billed because the band’s last music, however Gilmour and the band’s drummer, Nick Mason, resurrected the title for a one-off music in 2022, to voice help for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.
Over time there have been sideman roles with Bryan Ferry, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush – Gilmour had an enormous function on the very begin of Bush’s profession, paying for the 16-year-old to document her demo tape, then pushing it to her eventual label, EMI.
He’s additionally recorded 4 solo albums – a fifth, Luck and Unusual, is launched on 6 September – and continues to tour. Together with a six-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Corridor in October, he’s taking part in dates on the Hollywood Bowl, Madison Sq. Backyard and – in a transfer paying homage to Pink Floyd’s 1972 Pompeii efficiency – the traditional Circus Maximus chariot racing stadium in Rome.
It’s a life that has introduced with it a whole universe of music, which era after era have mulled over and received misplaced in. Submit your questions on all of it within the feedback beneath earlier than Wednesday 28 August and we are going to publish Gilmour’s responses on Friday 4 October.
