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ROLL wants you to recover quickly from long runs in the backcountry with its new Superplush recovery shoes

The new range of recovery shoes aim to get you back on the trails without all the aches and pains of a hard day's run

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David Gilmour claims Pink Floyd were 'bullied' over release of final album

David Gilmour has admitted Pink Floyd didn't intend for 2014's 'The Endless River' to be released as a proper studio record.

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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

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“The drummer broke his snare-drum skin, the bass was in a different tuning, Gilmour’s guitar wasn’t working properly…”: Bryan Ferry remembers Slave To Love’s chaotic live debut

Bryan Ferry on how difficult Slave To Love was to get right

MusicRadar

“He ended up with a fully-fledged, pro studio - it just happened to have an engine and some wheels underneath”: David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, Depeche Mode and more in nine of the weirdest recording studios ever built

Who needs a boring static building to record in when you can have one on wheels?

MusicRadar

What if Jimi Hendrix jammed with Eric Clapton, or Gary Moore traded solos with Joe Bonamassa? We imagine 5 all-star fantasy blues jams and what they would sound like

Welcome to an all-star fantasy blues jam, featuring a greatest hits of blues players, their signature licks, and how to put them together and incorporate them in your own playing

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

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‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house

‘Its first performance was at Live Aid. The drummer broke his kit, the bass was in a different tuning, David Gilmour’s guitar wasn’t working – and my mic was inaudible’

The Guardian - UK

“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

Guitar World

“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

Louder

David Gilmour's Between Two Points remixed by Gus from Alt-J

David Gilmour's first studio album in nine years, Luck And Strange, went straight into the UK charts at No. 1

Louder

The 30 greatest David Gilmour performances

David Gilmour's 30 greatest moments, as chosen by members of Marillion, Roxy Music, Asia, Solstice, TesseracT, Haken and more

Louder

David Gilmour review – astonishing, goosebump-inducing solos

In between collaborating with Ice-T, selling the rights to the Pink Floyd name and promoting a new album, the veteran musician delivers a stream of unimpeachable classics

The Guardian - UK

David Gilmour features in Body Count's new video for Comfortably Numb

Ice-Ts metal band Body Count will release their new album Merciless in November

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The Independent UK

David Gilmour review, Royal Albert Hall: Sombre meditation on mortality from Pink Floyd’s guitar great

To see Gilmour live is to witness his prowess as a wordless storyteller: with his guitar, he weaves entire narratives into his solos, guiding the audience through mysterious galaxies and celestial highs

MusicRadar

“I was sort of hot in those days!”: The guitarist who had the cojones to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy - and the chops to play alongside David Gilmour in Pink Floyd.

Snowy White on filling some very big shoes in 1980

Guitar World

“I think it makes me sound more like Hendrix, don’t you?” David Gilmour saves Comfortably Numb performance after his Jimi Hendrix guitar strap snaps mid-song

Even the greatest guitarists can be blighted with on-stage mishaps – but Gilmour managed to recover in time for song's iconic solo

MusicRadar

Pink Floyd are in the Money as they seal their back catalogue deal for £400 million

Sony Music have parted with the big bucks for the band’s music and imagery but the deal excludes publishing rights

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David Gilmour reveals what he thinks are the best lyrics Roger Waters ever wrote for Pink Floyd, choosing lyrics his former bandmate Waters considers “appalling”

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters has written some memorable lyrics in his time. His former bandmate David Gilmour reveals which are his personal favourites

Evening Standard

Pink Floyd: nine of the iconic band's best songs, from Echoes to Learning to Fly

We rank the band’s best tracks

MusicRadar

“Kate Bush is the only person who can get Kate Bush back on stage. I’ve tried persuading her recently, actually. Gently”: David Gilmour on carpentry, trousers and the return of Kate Bush

The guitarist is promoting a new tour and album and answering fans' questions

Guitar World

“At home I have this thing that’s now 30 years old called a Zoom”: David Gilmour has one of the most revered guitar tones of all time – but he still uses a 30-year-old Zoom multi-FX for his home demos

He may have once had a guitar worth $4 million, and you'll still see physical heads and cabinets at his live shows, but when laying tracks down at home, the Pink Floyd legend's tastes are far from expensive

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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.

The Independent UK

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour rejects Roger Waters reunion over support for ‘genocidal dictators’

‘Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK’ said Gilmour

Louder

“I’ve tried persuading her recently. Gently.” Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour has been trying to encourage his friend and former protégé Kate Bush to play live shows again

David Gilmour wants to see Kate Bush back onstage, won't be sharing a stage with former bandmate Roger Waters again, ever

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