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“There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated

1975 album remains a fan favourite – and despite their struggle to make it, the band insist the spirit of love shines through the grief and anger amid the theme of absence and their feelings about Syd Barrett

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Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever

After all, why reply with a short response when you can weave a long tale involving Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more instead?

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"I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock

It turns out that lengthy, multi-part instrumentals and concept albums aren't prog after all

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“I pushed my design and engineering skills to the limit”: Former Fender Custom Shop head John Page has built instruments for Eric Clapton and David Gilmour – but his latest masterpiece is a cathedral within a guitar

The Retablo is a six-string like no other – and it doubles as an ode to some of the most influential guitar greats who ever lived

Guitar World

“I’m not thinking about the audience and what they want, to be honest”: Why David Gilmour never learned to play this iconic Pink Floyd guitar solo

Gilmour believes his audiences would prefer a “real and happening” solo instead of a carbon copy night-in, night-out

Guitar World

“He’s the only rock star who’s never done anything to be embarrassed about. He’s never put a foot wrong”: Why Peter Gabriel was the ideal inspiration for fictional prog icon Brian Pern

Simon Day and Rhys Thomas, creators of the TV mockumentaries, identify the Gabriel song that got them started and the one time the ex-Genesis singer refused them – but won’t name the band they wouldn’t allow to take part

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"If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson

With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests

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“I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write

The guitarist’s wife and long-term creative partner helped him put a full-stop on The Endless River, before the couple brought his 2015 album Rattle That Lock to fruition

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David Gilmour reflects on historic Circus Maximus concert in new film: ‘It has a spiritual energy to it’

Revered guitarist performed his first tour in nearly a decade, which included a show against the dramatic ruins in Rome

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“The Sphere? I’m hoping, one of these days, to go there and sit and watch myself doing it, so I don't have to": David Gilmour says he’d be open to a Floyd avatar show at the Sphere

It’s the second time in a week he’s suggested playing the Las Vegas venue

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And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

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David Gilmour on a Pink Floyd avatar show at Las Vegas Sphere: 'I’ve always wanted to sit and watch myself do it'

David Gilmour would love to sit and watch his avatar perform in a show like ABBA Voyage.

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"I'm hoping to go there and watch myself": David Gilmour hints at Pink Floyd avatar show at the Sphere in Las Vegas

David Gilmour made the remarks at the UK premiere of his concert film Live At Circus Maximus, Rome

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“It doesn’t sound really wet… then suddenly you are in a huge chamber”: David Gilmour shares an essential tone tip for guitarists using a whammy bar with a delay pedal

The king of gourmet delay sounds shows us how vibrato works in cahoots with your repeats

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“Though every note has been learned and rehearsed and played, you need to think, ‘Oh, there’s something about the feel that had before that it’s gone forever’”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the Pink Floyd solo that accidentally got erased

The Pink Floyd guitarist reveals the track whose (one of many) solos got deleted amid the Animals recording sessions

Guitar World

“I almost cried when I first saw John Frusciante live. But when I got involved in extreme music, people would say, ‘Don’t mention RHCP’”: How Arve Isdal carved his own extreme metal path with Enslaved – and became Norway’s answer to Slash

The blues-schooled shredder shows off some unlikely examples in his guitar collection, explains why he quit an Iron Maiden icon’s band and shares the fate of his supergroup with Dani Filth, Rob Caggiano and John Tempesta

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“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange

Collaboration, family, mortality and that stridently emotive guitar work - it's all there on David Gilmour's sixth studio album Luck And Strange

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“A kid came in, plugged into an amp and started. It was extraordinary. I went out the next day to find records by this character, 'Jimi Hendrix…'”: David Gilmour on the first time he saw Hendrix play – in the company of the Beatles and Rolling Stones

A broke, pre-Pink Floyd Gilmour rocked up to a free jam evening at a music club – and had his entire guitar world rocked

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"I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."

David Gilmour fans might not have to wait too long for a follow-up to Luck and Strange

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10 Reunions That Went Wrong

They don't all go as smooth and successfully as Oasis, as The Verve, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins and more will tell you...

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“The piano just started speaking to me”: How Kate Bush stunned David Gilmour with a masterpiece of songwriting she made at just 13 years old

The early song was unmistakable evidence of Bush’s boundless talents

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“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

As we approach Wish You Were Here's 50th anniversary, we analyse the sublimely strange structure of its ambitious title track

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“They had the arrangement and I went, ‘Oh, this is finally my David Gilmour moment.’ The hair on my arms stood up”: Keith Scott on the making of Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – the record-breaking hit no one saw coming

Scott remembers how a “plaintive melody” from Michael Kamen intrigued Mutt Lange and was shaped into Bryan Adams' biggest, hit, giving Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves the anthem it needed

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New David Gilmour tour film and live album confirmed for later this year - watch him dip into the Pink Floyd songbook in the trailer

Live At The Circus Maximus hits cinemas in September

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“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

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