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Related tags, “i never say never”: david gilmour on the possibility of making new pink floyd music.

The last time Gilmour revived the Pink Floyd name was in 2022, with the release of Hey, Hey, Rise Up! in support of Ukraine.

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David Gilmour may be done with Pink Floyd drama, but he remains open to the possibility of creating new music with the band – at least, if a cause worthy enough arises in the future, says the musician.

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With his new album, Luck and Strange , out tomorrow (6 September) and an upcoming solo tour in the works, Gilmour makes it clear that he has no desire to revisit past drama, not the least his relationship with former bandmate Roger Waters .

And while it’ll be a “dream” to rid himself of Pink Floyd’s catalogue and the “arguments that are involved with keeping it going”, Gilmour reveals that he’s actually open to one-off projects with the group.

Back in 2022, Gilmour and Floyd drummer Nick Mason briefly revived the Pink Floyd name to release Hey, Hey, Rise Up! for Ukraine amid its ongoing conflict with Russia.

Prompted on the possibility of more collabs like these, Gilmour tells Rolling Stone : “It’s a strange old world we live in, and on there are things that crop up in life that you feel you have to do something about, and have to do something about now. And you might as well use what you’ve earned through your life to benefit causes that you believe in.”

“So I never say never,” he adds.

Also in the interview, the guitarist speaks about the balancing act of giving Pink Floyd fans what they want while allowing the band and himself to take creative liberty with songs during concerts.

“It’s a very tricky thing to do, because the people coming to see the shows pretty much want all the songs to be identical to the way they are on the record,” Gilmour explains.

“And the musicians obviously want to stray from that. I want to stray from that. It’s a little juggling act, where you have to try and stick with keeping all the important stuff and having a bit more freedom to go sideways.”

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David Gilmour, Luck and Strange review: The next best thing to a Pink Floyd reunion

A s the fallout from Oasis’s smash-and-grab reunion tour continues, Pink Floyd fans can console themselves that the prog icons would never tarnish their legacy in a similar fashion. The bad blood between the band’s twin lodestars, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, is such that they’d never reform in the first place – let alone stay in the same room long enough to agree ticket prices.

But if a Floyd comeback remains off the table, Gilmour – chilled guitar wizard to Waters’ baleful, bass-playing dark lord – has given us the next best thing. Inspired by lockdown live sessions recorded with his family, his satisfyingly windswept fifth solo album Luck and Strange taps into the majestic weirdness that propelled his former band from hippy sideshow to one of the defining voices of their generation.

The bombastic melancholy of Floyd touchstones The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are conjured on opener “Black Cat” and on the seven-minute title track that immediately follows. Both are effective showcases for Gilmour’s elevated noodling – a style both epic and languid, wide-screen and intimate.

Sprucing up “Luck and Strange” with his breathy singing, Gilmour (78) sounds like a druidic Leonard Cohen or a grizzled Jarvis Cocker. Evocative lyrics by his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, add diaristic grit and draw a vivid portrait of Gilmour’s postwar childhood (“It was a fine time to be born/De-mob happy street and free milk for us all”).

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That Gilmour would so enthusiastically evoke Floyd’s glory days may surprise anyone staying abreast of the story of Luck and Strange . He made it with the indie producer Charlie Andrew, who is best known for his work with nerdy Radiohead soundalikes Alt-J. Part of the appeal, said Gilmour, was that Andrew did not have a deep grasp of the Floyd catalogue. “He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that.”

The implication that Luck and Strange represents a daring new chapter for Gilmour doesn’t carry through to the music, however. After flexing his prog muscles on the first two songs, he taps into the folk horror psychedelia of early Floyd on “The Piper’s Call” – the title surely a wink to Floyd’s 1967 debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn , and the madcap whimsy of their original frontman Syd Barrett.

The one genuine surprise is a cover of “Between Two Points” by the late-1990s dream-pop duo the Montgolfier Brothers (a discovery of Oasis’s original champion, Alan McGee). Featuring gauzy vocals by Gilmour’s 22-year-old daughter Romany, the tune suggests a long-lost indie fragment from the era of cassette mixtapes and Select magazine. It’s a shoegazey nugget chucked on to a record that otherwise functions as a love letter to the glory days of progressive rock. We’re never getting that Floyd reunion – but this engaging album might be the next best thing.

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'Oasis should do what's right for them': David Gilmour on a Pink Floyd reunion

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As big band reunions are hitting headlines, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour explains what that could mean for his band

There is nothing Rock 'n' roll about the building on the Sussex coast, but as I approach I can hear the unmistakable sounds of David Gilmour on guitar.

He has a particular sound that is his, and I am meeting him at a particular moment in his life.

After nine years, he has recorded a new album, and what’s more, he is preparing to take it on tour. Luck and Strange is the name, and it finds the former Pink Floyd guitarist in contemplative mood.

"It’s a place I’ve been in, since I was about 13, always thinking deeply, perhaps overthinking," he tells me.

We are sitting in the vast hall that he and his team have transformed into a rehearsal studio, his beloved Fender guitars lined up, as well as his team comprising experienced 'been there, seen it' sort of engineers and musicians.

His wife, the novelist Polly Samson, is there, as is his daughter, Romany. Currently at university, she sings on the album, while Polly wrote the lyrics. One of the backing singers has her tiny baby in tow, and the Gilmour family’s pet dog, Wesley, is happily running around.

It is a family affair born out of the time they spent together during lockdown. David Gilmour was delighted to find out his daughter had a lovely voice that harmonised well with his. Listen to the track Between Two Points on the album and you’ll hear what I mean.

The guitarist said it is an album that reflects on the past and how lucky he was as a musician to be around then, how things were easier in the industry in the '60s and '70s. He bemoans the apparent decline in rock bands coming forward today, and the singles charts so dominated by solo artists.

There has been been some dismay at reports that since 2020 only three bands have topped the singles charts, and one of them was The Beatles.

Why are record companies seemingly not looking for the next Pink Floyd, I ask? Greed, he suggests - or at least the lack of effort to do what was commonplace in the past, namely companies going out to find the next big thing, in clubs and small venues. The decline in the number of small music venues has made this more difficult, I suggest.

He concedes we are living in a different age where people consume and discover their music online, but many will agree when he tells me that the process of buying vinyl albums, which dominated the era when bands like Floyd ruled the musical world, was a golden era. The feeling of the album, the words on the sleeves were a joy for those who bought them.

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Pink Floyd have sold more than 250 million records over the past six decades, and their albums remain amongst the highest grossing in history. But he is firm when it comes to asking, well, what many ask: with big band reunions in the headlines right now, what about Pink Floyd?

His long running feud with the band's co-founder, Roger Waters, has turned very nasty, with claim and counter claim. But he tells me all the remaining three members are not particularly on talking terms. So, a reunion? Dream on.

"Oasis should do what’s right for them," he says, though the ticketing scandal has him baffled. "Chose a ticket price and stick to it."

He may yearn for some things in the past, but that is not to say he is not leaping into the present and future. He is going back on tour, playing publicly for the first time in eight years.

There will be a six night residency at the Royal Albert Hall next month, and similar stints in Rome, LA and New York.

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“You're going to come and upstage me? OK, great”: David Gilmour surprises pub-goers with acoustic rendition of Pink Floyd classic accompanied by daughter Romany

Gilmour wielded his Martin D-35 signature acoustic for a special Wish You Were Here duet at a tiny pub in the UK

Every Pink Floyd fan dreams about catching an intimate David Gilmour show at their local watering hole – and that is exactly what regulars at a pub in the seaside city of Brighton and Hove experienced last night, when Gilmour appeared with his child Romany for an acoustic rendition of 1975 Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here .

22-year-old Romany Gilmour, a talented songwriter in their own right, performed a short set of covers at The Neptune Inn, which included Joanna Newson's This Side of Blue and Leonard Cohen's If It Be Your Will .

Like any other aspiring singer-songwriter, they also tested out an original song with the working title Lily of the Roses . However, what the open mic attendees didn't expect was to see the Pink Floyd icon join Romany on stage.

“Oh my gosh, you're here. And you've brought your guitar,” Romany exclaimed, then jokingly added, “You're going to come and upstage me? OK, great.” The older Gilmour quickly set up his Martin D-35 signature acoustic and joined them on the small stage for a tender rendition of the Pink Floyd classic.

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The guitarist and bassist of David's current band, Ben Worsley and Guy Pratt, were also in attendance, along with Romany's brother Gabriel and Ugly Kid Joe singer Whitfield Crane.

The Gilmour family, including Romany, have been an integral part of David's just-released solo album, Luck and Strange , which he recently called “the best album I’ve made in all those years since 1973 when The Dark Side of the Moon came out.”

Romany plays harp and takes on lead vocals on the reimagined Between Two Points , a Montgolfier Brothers original. The folk-tinged Yes, I Have Ghosts sees them duet with their dad.

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“I was working on this song just as we went into lockdown and had to cancel a session with backing singers,” revealed David in a press release . “But, as it turned out, the solution was right here and I couldn’t be happier with the way Romany’s voice blends with mine and the beautiful harp playing has been another revelation.”

The acclaimed guitarist is gearing up to take Luck and Strange on the road, with October and November dates already announced at Circo Massimo in Rome, London's Royal Albert Hall, the Intuit Dome and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and New York's Madison Square Garden.

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David Gilmour Feels the 'Magic' of Working with His Family on His New LP 'Luck and Strange' (Exclusive)

The former Pink Floyd guitarist will be performing in Rome, London, Los Angeles and New York City in support of the new record

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• 'Luck and Strange' is former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's fifth solo record and his first in nine years
• The album features contributions from his wife Polly and their three kids Romany, Charlie and Gabriel
• "Everything is just smiling on me at the moment. I'm really enjoying myself," he tells PEOPLE

On Luck and Strange , former Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour’s upcoming solo album, it’s all in the family. His wife, the novelist and journalist Polly Samson, penned the words, and Gilmour’s three grown children — daughter Romany and sons Gabriel and Charlie — made contributions to the record via singing and songwriting. To Gilmour, having his family members on his new album was liberating from what he used to do on his previous solo outings. 

“I don't feel that I have to do things a certain way,” the British rocker, 78, tells PEOPLE. “I don't have to use a certain type of musician or anything else." He also adds: "There's something about voices from the same family that I think has a magic to it.”

Showcasing Gilmour’s signature guitar playing and voice that have been synonymous with Pink Floyd for decades, Luck and Strange (out on Friday, Sept. 6) is his first new album in nine years – an occasion he is marking with a string of shows in Rome, London, Los Angeles and New York City beginning on Sept. 27 . Gilmour is so enamored with his latest record — which also features veteran musicians such as drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Guy Pratt — that he recently described it as the best work he has done since Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon . 

“The joy I have had making this album, the joy I still have listening to it every day, which I do on every car journey and everything else—I'm still really madly in love with it,” he says of Luck and Strange . “I think it's a really fine piece of work. Polly's lyrics are the best she's written. Everything is just smiling on me at the moment. I'm really enjoying myself.”

It isn’t the first time Gilmour has collaborated with his family on music. Between 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic lockdown, he launched the Von Trapped series , which consisted of livestream musical performances from his home featuring himself accompanied by his family members. But don’t call it nepotism as Gilmour says it’s different from that.

“Romany writes, plays the harp and sings," he says. "She has a beautiful voice. It's something that she has earned. Charlie is a great writer himself. He's written a very good book [ Featherhood ] and he is writing another one. Polly is an author nonpareil. We had so much fun doing those [livestreams].”

A part of Gilmour’s enjoyment of making the new record can be attributed to producer Charlie Andrew, whose previous credits included indie rock acts Alt-J and Marika Hackman. Andrew’s lack of familiarity with Pink Floyd’s music was interesting to Gilmour, who had previously collaborated with longtime producers Bob Ezrin and Phil Manzanera. 

“I felt a new approach was needed,” Gilmour says. “I was talking about my frustrations of finding this perfect person to Polly, and she jumped on the internet and started looking for producers. And she found this Charlie Andrew, who'd won a Mercury Prize. Polly listened to Alt-J and other things he produced and she said, "Hey, listen to this. This is interesting." So I listened and said, "Yeah, let's give it a try." He came down and listened to some things, and declared himself very keen on coming on board.”

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The lyrics on Luck and Strange by Samson, 62, who has been Gilmour’s songwriting partner for 30 years, touch on the themes of aging and mortality, which took on a greater resonance during the lockdown. 

“At the time, we thought [COVID] was a death sentence for particularly old people,” Gilmour says. “It was really quite frightening. There was talk of 20% of the population dying from this thing, and we were very scared. Mortality was a subject that we [in Pink Floyd] talked about then and have ever since – it’s one of my topics going back to “Childhood's End” and “Sorrow.” It's something we all have to think about at some time. These songs came up one by one over a period of time, and they were just the conversations that we have been having for years about the world that we live in.”

The album’s soulful and bluesy title track poignantly features former Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, on keyboards. It was based on a 15-minute jam recorded at Gilmour’s barn in 2007, a year before Wright’s death at age 65. 

“We felt that by the end of [the 2006 On an Island ] tour that we were really gelling and playing very well together as a band,” says Gilmour. “So I invited the core of the band to come down and jam a bit. The morning that we started, I plugged in my Gretsch Duo Jet guitar and played that little riff, and everyone joined in one by one. People's ears pricked up like, ‘Oh, something's happening.’ We edited some of the joining in down a little bit, but the whole of the introduction and the verses are that very first jam.”

One of the intriguing tracks from the new record is “Between Two Points,” a cover of an obscure 1999 song by the British indie music duo the Montgolfier Brothers; Gilmour’s new rendition features Romany, 22, on lead vocals.

“That song was one Polly and I knew well and loved,” says Gilmour. “Polly said, ‘Why don't you cut a backing track and see where we go?’ So one afternoon, I pieced a rough thing together and sat in front of a microphone with the lyrics and read them and thought, ‘Actually, I'm just not this person in these words. They're fantastic, but they're vulnerable and troubled in a way that I don't think people think I am.’ Polly said, ‘We could get Romany to give it a go.’ She was very grumpy, but eventually sang it and magic happened right there in front of our eyes.”

Also keeping it within the family, Gilmour’s son Gabriel, 27, sings background vocals on the album while his older brother Charlie, 35, has a co-writing credit on the majestic orchestral-laden track “Scattered.” A lyric from that song — “A man stands in a river, pushes against the stream/Time is a tide that disobeys and it disobeys me” —  inspired the album’s cover art.  “He wrote two or three verses,” says Gilmour of Charlie's contribution, “a couple of the verses are mine, and a bit of other brilliant inserts came from Polly. That idea of the man standing in the river trying to hold back the flow is a very visual and appealing idea.”

The album’s most recent single, the uptempo and rhythmic “Dark and Velvet Nights,” is based on Samson's poem for the couple’s wedding anniversary. “It was sitting on my desk in my studio room,” Gilmour recalls “I put it down in its demo form and wanted something to sing on it, just to see how words would sound on it. So I picked Polly's poem up, and it had that serendipitous thing where they just fitted.” 

The lovely “Sings” is probably the most romantic song on Luck and Strange , somewhat uncharacteristic of the reflective and somber music that Gilmour made with Pink Floyd. “The warmth and tenderness and deeply personal thought of those words are matched by the music, which is like sitting in a warm bath or wrapped up in your bed. Before it had lyrics, [producer Charlie Andrew] had a whiteboard on the wall with songs and musical tracks and what should happen. And that one had, ‘Lyrics, urgent,’ written next to it. He loved it.”

As he is preparing for the upcoming tour, the rewarding experience of making Luck and Strange has already inspired Gilmour to make a follow-up record. “I have songs and pieces of music and half-formed things that go back years and years," he says. "So I've got a library of things and I've got new songs. Polly and I are both quite keen to get on with doing another one. I know I say that after every album…but we genuinely are going to get on with this, and Polly will push me until we really get on with it.”

Meanwhile, Pink Floyd’s music continues to be more popular than ever, even as the band has been on hiatus. Last year marked the 50th birthday of The Dark Side of the Moon, and its follow-up, Wish You Were Here, will celebrate a golden anniversary as well next year. Gilmour, however, is looking ahead rather than back.

“I'm loving what I'm doing [now],” he says, “getting ready to do some shows with a bunch of exciting musicians who are mostly a little bit younger than me, and looking forward to starting on some new work in the new year. So I don't spend a lot of my time worrying about Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here' s birthdays, I'm afraid."

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