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Polly Samson on photographing life with husband David Gilmour: ‘I saw it in my mind’s eye first’

INTERVIEW: The photographer and author is showing her work at an exhibition in London. She describes her creative process, her photography heroes and how her and husband David Gilmour’s home, surrounded by water meadows, inspires her

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“The last thing you want is people just deferring to you”: He may have been around for nearly 60 years, but David Gilmour’s return to form was inevitable. Here’s why

“The last thing you want is people just deferring to you”: He may have been around for nearly 60 years, but David Gilmour’s return to form was inevitable. Here’s why

While the ex Pink Floyd leader is a world-class guitarist and vocalist, his attitude to family, social issues and collaborations make him even bigger than that

‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

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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

"I did start by saying: 'Do we need another guitar solo here?'" David Gilmour on boomer fortune and the making of Luck And Strange

For Luck And Strange David Gilmour assembled a team that produced "the best album I've made since The Dark Side Of The Moon"

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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

“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

"Different enough to make you think, respectful enough to have the whole crowd swaying": David Gilmour opens his world tour in Rome's Circus Maximus

"Different enough to make you think, respectful enough to have the whole crowd swaying": David Gilmour opens his world tour in Rome's Circus Maximus

Global Luck and Strange jaunt kicks off in epic surroundings with Pink Floyd-heave set

David Gilmour dazzles on the opening night of his tour in Rome: the first review!

David Gilmour dazzles on the opening night of his tour in Rome: the first review!

David Gilmour unleashes Pink Floyd-heavy set to get the ball rolling on his Luck And Strange world tour at Rome's Circo Massimo

“One can spot a steely glint in his eye – despite the subject matter, he’s hardly feeling sorry for himself here”: David Gilmour’s Luck And Strange

“One can spot a steely glint in his eye – despite the subject matter, he’s hardly feeling sorry for himself here”: David Gilmour’s Luck And Strange

Fifth solo album carries all the Pink Floyd mastermind’s trademarks, but there are notable differences too

David Gilmour teams up with daughter Romany for new single Between Two Points

David Gilmour teams up with daughter Romany for new single Between Two Points

David Gilmour will release Luck And Strange in September, his first studio album in nine years

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