David Gilmour
Date of birth
6th March, 1946
Occupation
Musician
Sex
Male
Height
1.83
Roger Waters Wants To Headline Glastonbury Without Pink Floyd
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 February 2017
Roger Waters admits he's up for headlining Glastonbury but as a solo artist and not as part of a reunited Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and Nick Mason are both up for headlining Glastonbury - but not together.
The two musicians reunited on Thursday (16.02.17) in London to launch the upcoming 'Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' and were quizzed on whether or not one more great gig beckoned for the psychedelic legends at Michael Eavis' world famous festival, which they never played at as a band.
Roger quit the group back in 1985 citing Pink Floyd as a ''spent force creatively'' and since has only performed with Nick and the other surviving member David Gilmour back in 2005 at the Live 8 charity concert in London, and during Waters' performance of 'The Wall' at The O2 arena in 2011 on a rendition of 'Comfortably Numb'.
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David Gilmour with Pink Floyd on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason World Tour in 1988 - Vienna, Austria - Friday 1st July 1988
Benedict Cumberbatch Joins David Gilmour Onstage For 'Comfortably Numb'
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 29 September 2016
The 'Sherlock' and 'Doctor Strange' star joined Gilmour onstage at the Royal Albert Hall for a rendition of the Pink Floyd classic.
Benedict Cumberbatch made a surprise career reinvention as a rock star this week, joining David Gilmour on stage in London to help sing a classic by Gilmour’s old band Pink Floyd, ‘Comfortably Numb’.
Guitarist Gilmour was playing the third gig in a five-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night (September 28th), when the Marvel actor walked out onstage for the 1979 song, taken from Floyd’s classic album The Wall.
The track was, of course, originally sung by Gilmour’s old bandmate Roger Waters, who acrimoniously left Pink Floyd in 1985. Gilmour has continued to perform the song live since, but frequently uses guest vocalists for Waters’ part – including the late David Bowie, who joined him onstage in exactly the same venue 10 years ago.
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David Gilmour - David Gilmour being interviewed at the Hay Festival, Hay-On-Wye, Powys, Wales at HAY ON WYE - Hay-On-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom - Friday 27th May 2016
Lana Del Rey's 'Honeymoon' Beaten By Dave Gilmour In Chart Battle
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 27 September 2015
The Pink Floyd guitarist has scored his second solo number one album in the UK.
Dave Gilmour has topped this week’s UK album chart, beating Lana Del Rey to the number one spot. Gilmour previously landed at number one just 10 months ago with band Pink Floyd’s latest release The Endless River.
Rattle That Lock gives Gilmour his second chart topper as a solo artist, following 2006’s On An Island. Speaking to OfficialCharts.com Gilmour said, "It's thrilling to get a Number 1 album, we all want to hit the top spot, however long we've been at it, I'm delighted.”
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Stephen Hawking To Feature On New Pink Floyd Album ‘The Endless River’
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 08 October 2014
The legendary band’s first new album in 20 years is released on November 10th.
The voice of physicist Stephen Hawking will appear on Pink Floyd’s new album The Endless River, on a tracked titled, ‘Talkin' Hawkin.’
Samson tweeted on Saturday, 'Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called The Endless River. Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.’ Details of the album, the band’s first in 20 years, were being kept under wraps, but it seems Polly was unaware of the secrecy.
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Man Pretending To Be David Gilmour Racks Up $100,000 Medical Bill
By Joe Wilde in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 May 2013
A man was arrest for pretending to be Pink Floyd frontman/guitarist David Gilmour in order to avoid paying his medical bills at a Minnesota hospital.
David Gilmour was in a Minnesota hospital recovering from on ongoing medical condition last month, the only ting is it wasn't actual the Pink Floyd frontman in hospital at all, it was a man pretending to be him in order to get out of paying his medical bills. Phillip Michael Schaeffer racked up a $100,000 bill during his stay in the St Cloud Hospital before police caught on to his scam.
Schaeffer turned up at the Minnesota hospital on April 20, claiming he was Floyd's guitarist and singer and that he didn't have medical insurance. He claimed he was on tour with Pink Floyd in Canada at the time and even signed an autograph for an unsuspecting fan while in his hospital bed. Suspicions were later raised by hospital staff, and Schaeffer was arrested when he returned to St Cloud for further treatment.
That clattering sound you thought you heard this week? Yeah, that was a thousand music journalists collectively dropping their pens when David Bowie suddenly released a new single - Where Are We Now? - on his 66th birthday. The British icon, now settled in Manhattan, also announced his first album in 10 years - The Next Day - set for release on March. Bowie, a forward thinking songwriter, addresses mortality and the past on his latest single, fuelling speculation as to whether the singer's latest record could well be his last.
There were murmuring of Bowie's return to the fray in 2012, though most expected him to appear at the London Olympics opening ceremony, sing Heroes and hop back on a plane to the East Coast of America. It never happened, and fans of the superstar were left sighing as Danny Boyle instead screened filmed footage of Bowie during his whistle-stop tour of Britain's pop history. Reviews of Where Are We Now? have been wholly positive, with our own Simon Jay Catling musing "this is a track that maintains the hallmarks of its creator's canon - lyrical signposts, themes that are never fully decoded, questions that open up more questions." Luke Turner of The Quietus said, "The song itself, well, it's proper Bowie, but with a really gorgeous swell, and at times heart-rending reflective tone to it. Brilliant stuff. My word." The Daily Telegraph - who also offered a positive review - quoted a spokesman as saying the track came "from out of nowhere," adding, "Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary."
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David Gilmour - David Gilmour and guest London, England - The 1000 - London's Most Influential People held at the London Transport Museum. Tuesday 8th November 2011
David Gilmour - David Gilmour and Polly Samson, London, England - at Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell's Reception Party held at their home - Departures Sunday 9th October 2011