Who would have thought… On the threshold of eighty years of age, you don’t lie in bed, watch TV, sulk, curse, or in any other way resemble an obnoxious old man. On the contrary. You are still fresh and you continue to develop your long-standing profession or, more precisely, your mission… In this case, you compose music, play, sing and record…
Perhaps one could write that there is really no need to introduce this personality. But it certainly won’t hurt to recall a few facts.
Since 1968, guitarist and singer of the famous Pink Floyd. He did not leave the band even during the greatest crisis in the eighties. He preserved and defended the Pink Floyd brand even in court, when the main figure of the same group, Roger Waters, officially disbanded the group and claimed (in court) that the brand could not exist without him. But it worked. I have more than a hundred thousand witnesses to this at the memorial concert in Strahov in 1994.
David Gilmour was quite in the background within the famous group. Just a member of the group. Although he was involved in the authorship, but only in a minority way. His role was more like an artistic one. As a great guitarist and singer who really had a voice and knew how to keep it all within taste and artistic boundaries.
David is undoubtedly one of the top rock music stars. He didn’t have to style himself into the role. He didn’t have to smash guitars on the podium, he didn’t have to dress up in crazy clothes… He always performed very modestly. T-shirt or shirt, trousers. Always focused on his performance and speech. Always disciplined, modest, without pathos and unnecessary gestures.
And as such, he could not escape the attention of solid and non-commercial organizations, the media and even the British Empire itself, which awarded him the Order of Commander in 2003.
David later proved his soulfulness by selling his house in London for an incredible £3.6 million in the same year, donating the proceeds to Crises, which built a home for the homeless.
In 2008, he won the top prize at the Q Awards, which he dedicated to his friend Rick Wright, who had passed away at the time. (Rick Wright was Pink Floyd’s keyboardist.)
He played and collaborated with such personalities that we can hardly find more famous names… Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, The Who, Supetramp, etc… He discovered and promoted the famous singer Kate Bush. And after all, he also collaborated with the Czech track. He took part in the music video for the song Too Much to Lose by Jan Hammer.
But let’s go back to the beginning.
David Jon Gilmour today at 18:15 CET launches the first single for the upcoming new album called Luck and Strange.
He is 78 years old. And he doesn’t want to just be in an inactive retirement. Despite his advanced age, he has so much energy and musical beauty inside him that he simply cannot bury it on the couch in front of the TV.
So here is a fresh and still warm sample from the new album, which will be released at an unknown date. The album is called (will be called) Luck and Strange. The opener for this album is called The Piper’s Call.
Who knows if the opening photo shows the famous Astoria houseboat on the Thames, where David has his studio…
Pleasant listening to honest, soulful rock music…
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