David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 — as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in an interview featured in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Gilmour dwells on mortality on the new album, which he co-wrote with his wife, Polly Samson, and he’s all too aware that we’ve...
- 9/21/2024
- by Brian Hiatt and Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Fresh off the release of his new album Luck and Strange, David Gilmour stopped by a local pub in Brighton and Hove, UK for an open mic on Monday night and gave his first live performance since 2020.
Taking place at The Neptune Inn, the Pink Floyd guitarist and singer joined his daughter Romany Gilmour, who also contributed vocals to Luck and Strange. Romany invited her father up for a song, and David asked if they should do “Wish You Were Here” — they then performed the Pink Floyd classic together on acoustic guitars, singing in harmony as the pub’s attendees sang along.
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David immortalized the moment by posting a video of the performance on Twitter, writing, “Very much enjoyed crashing @GilmourRomany’s gig at the Neptune in Hove this evening after finishing tour rehearsals…” Watch the video below.
While David and Romany played a handful...
Taking place at The Neptune Inn, the Pink Floyd guitarist and singer joined his daughter Romany Gilmour, who also contributed vocals to Luck and Strange. Romany invited her father up for a song, and David asked if they should do “Wish You Were Here” — they then performed the Pink Floyd classic together on acoustic guitars, singing in harmony as the pub’s attendees sang along.
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David immortalized the moment by posting a video of the performance on Twitter, writing, “Very much enjoyed crashing @GilmourRomany’s gig at the Neptune in Hove this evening after finishing tour rehearsals…” Watch the video below.
While David and Romany played a handful...
- 9/10/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
David Gilmour isn’t kicking off his Luck and Strange world tour for another 17 days, but a handful of people at the Neptune Live Music Bar’s open-mic night in East Sussex, England, caught a little sneak preview when he joined his daughter Romany to perform an acoustic rendition of “Wish You Were Here.” “Would you like to come and upstage me?” she asks her father as he walks onto the stage. “Okay, great.”
Gilmour posted a truncated rendition of the performance on his social media accounts. “Very much enjoyed...
Gilmour posted a truncated rendition of the performance on his social media accounts. “Very much enjoyed...
- 9/10/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour’s new album, Luck and Strange, has officially been released and is streaming below. It’s also available to purchase on limited-edition colored vinyl, as well as in a deluxe box set.
First announced this past April, Luck and Strange includes nine new tracks from the Pink Floyd guitarist, including eight originals — many of which were co-written with his wife, Polly Samson — and a cover of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 song, “Between Two Points.”
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Throughout Luck and Strange, Gilmour is joined by a number of guest musicians, including Steve Gadd, Roger Eno, and more. The title track even features late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, who’s part was recorded during a 2007 jam session at Gilmour’s house.
Luck and Strange arrives via Sony Music, and is the new first studio release from Gilmour since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. Speaking about the record last month,...
First announced this past April, Luck and Strange includes nine new tracks from the Pink Floyd guitarist, including eight originals — many of which were co-written with his wife, Polly Samson — and a cover of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 song, “Between Two Points.”
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Throughout Luck and Strange, Gilmour is joined by a number of guest musicians, including Steve Gadd, Roger Eno, and more. The title track even features late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, who’s part was recorded during a 2007 jam session at Gilmour’s house.
Luck and Strange arrives via Sony Music, and is the new first studio release from Gilmour since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. Speaking about the record last month,...
- 9/6/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Each week, Consequence celebrates New Music Friday by highlighting newly released albums to stream. We’ve made to September, and fall is upon us — luckily, this week gives us plenty to savor before the leaves start changing. We’re checking out new music from David Gilmour, Fred again.., Hinds, Toro y Moi, and of course, a great singer-songwriter named Mj Lenderman. Here are 10 new albums to stream today.
Blink-182 — One More Time… Part 2
Last year, the beloved 2000s pop-punk band returned with their comeback album, One More Time…. Now, they are riding the reunion excitement with an expansion of the album, One More Time… Part 2. The new album includes eight previously-unreleased songs, some of which they’ll likely bust out during the remainder of their 2024 tour this fall (get tickets here).
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David Gilmour — Luck and Strange
The former Pink Floyd frontman is releasing his fifth solo studio album,...
Blink-182 — One More Time… Part 2
Last year, the beloved 2000s pop-punk band returned with their comeback album, One More Time…. Now, they are riding the reunion excitement with an expansion of the album, One More Time… Part 2. The new album includes eight previously-unreleased songs, some of which they’ll likely bust out during the remainder of their 2024 tour this fall (get tickets here).
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David Gilmour — Luck and Strange
The former Pink Floyd frontman is releasing his fifth solo studio album,...
- 9/6/2024
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
David Gilmour’s ‘Luck and Strange’ Is a Sometimes Beautiful, Sometimes Chilly Dark Night of the Soul
The most intriguing song on Luck and Strange, David Gilmour’s first solo album in nearly a decade, is a dark-mirror reflection of his own artistry: a rendition of the Montgolfier Brothers’ sardonic 1999 dream-pop song “Between Two Points,” sung by his daughter, Romany.
The original song was a slow-building echo of Pink Floyd’s realism, an impressionistic portrait of failed communication and a related sense of resignation. Refracted through the Gilmours’ lenses, “Between Two Points” feels starker and uncanny, as Romany plays the keyboard on a harp and sings, “Just...
The original song was a slow-building echo of Pink Floyd’s realism, an impressionistic portrait of failed communication and a related sense of resignation. Refracted through the Gilmours’ lenses, “Between Two Points” feels starker and uncanny, as Romany plays the keyboard on a harp and sings, “Just...
- 9/5/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
News of the Oasis reunion has sent shockwaves throughout the music world, especially since Noel Gallagher has spent the past 15 years swearing such a thing would never happen. But should anyone really be all that surprised? Liam and Noel Gallagher may not like each other very much, but they could make somewhere in the ballpark of $300 to $500 million from a reunion tour. That’ll come in very handy for Noel in the aftermath of his costly divorce from wife Sara MacDonald.
They’re also far from the first rock band...
They’re also far from the first rock band...
- 8/27/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this all the way through,” Gilmour says. “It was fuckin’ freezing in there. But we spent 15 minutes working on this tiny, little riff I wrote on the guitar. They all joined in one by one.”
The sketch of a song was...
The sketch of a song was...
- 8/26/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has shared his new single, “Dark and Velvet Nights,” the latest preview of his forthcoming comeback album, Luck and Strange.
Co-written by Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson, “Dark and Velvet Nights” is a grooving rock track celebrating their love that also shows off his legendary guitar acumen with a solo toward the end. Stream it below.
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“The music sprang out one day. It was so exciting to have come across this groove,” Gilmour recalled in a statement. “Polly had given me a beautiful poem for our wedding anniversary, which was sitting on the desk right next to me, so I picked it up and sang it on the track, to hear what it would sound like with words. I played it to Polly, and she said, ‘Lovely, great, I’ll need fiddle with it a bit.’ So she added a couple of verses,...
Co-written by Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson, “Dark and Velvet Nights” is a grooving rock track celebrating their love that also shows off his legendary guitar acumen with a solo toward the end. Stream it below.
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“The music sprang out one day. It was so exciting to have come across this groove,” Gilmour recalled in a statement. “Polly had given me a beautiful poem for our wedding anniversary, which was sitting on the desk right next to me, so I picked it up and sang it on the track, to hear what it would sound like with words. I played it to Polly, and she said, ‘Lovely, great, I’ll need fiddle with it a bit.’ So she added a couple of verses,...
- 8/9/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
With a new solo album coming this fall, David Gilmour will return to the United States for a handful of shows for the first time in eight years. The artist, who is releasing Luck and Strange on Sept. 6, will perform at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome on Oct. 25, the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 29, 30, and 31, and New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Nov. 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10. A teaser clip for the tour includes Pink Floyd’s “High Hopes,” Luck and Strange’s “The Piper’s Call,” and Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb...
- 5/13/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies” and would rather focus the set around his new album and other periods of Floyd’s history.
“[Other decades] might be better represented,” he said. “I mean, at least one from the Sixties. The one...
“[Other decades] might be better represented,” he said. “I mean, at least one from the Sixties. The one...
- 5/2/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has said that he’s open to the idea of a Pink Floyd hologram show, à la Abba Voyage, but only under a “series of very, very difficult and onerous conditions.”
The comments came in a new interview with Uncut, ahead of Gilmour’s first new album in nearly a decade, Luck and Strange (due on September 6th). Revealing that he and his wife, Polly Samson, had been invited to watch the Abba Voyage show, the guitarist explained that he wasn’t quite blown away with the visuals of the hologram format, but appreciated the music.
“If you were a determined Abba fan, you might enjoy it,” he said (per NME). “I thought the images of them were sort of Ok, but they weren’t ever going to convince me it was real. If you’re down the sort of mosh pit end of the...
The comments came in a new interview with Uncut, ahead of Gilmour’s first new album in nearly a decade, Luck and Strange (due on September 6th). Revealing that he and his wife, Polly Samson, had been invited to watch the Abba Voyage show, the guitarist explained that he wasn’t quite blown away with the visuals of the hologram format, but appreciated the music.
“If you were a determined Abba fan, you might enjoy it,” he said (per NME). “I thought the images of them were sort of Ok, but they weren’t ever going to convince me it was real. If you’re down the sort of mosh pit end of the...
- 4/28/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Nearly a decade since the release of his last solo album, David Gilmour will return with a new full-length, Luck and Strange, this fall. The former Pink Floyd singer and guitarist will release the record’s first single, “The Piper’s Call,” on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Thursday; a music video will follow on Friday. The album will arrive on Sept. 6.
Gilmour recorded and co-produced the album, which follows 2015’s Rattle That Lock, over five months in Brighton, England, and London with producer Charlie Andrew, whose credits include releases by Alt-j,...
Gilmour recorded and co-produced the album, which follows 2015’s Rattle That Lock, over five months in Brighton, England, and London with producer Charlie Andrew, whose credits include releases by Alt-j,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour is working on new music, his wife and musical collaborator Polly Samson has confirmed.
Over the last several weeks, Samson has shared a series of photos of Gilmour at British Grove Studios, working alongside a group of collaborators that include their daughter Romany Gilmour, pianist Roger Eno, bassists Tom Herbert and Guy Pratt, drummers Adam Betts and Steve Gadd, and alt-j producer Charlie Andrew. “Great studio, amazing team, lovely people,” Samson captioned one photo.
Samson further confirmed she was working with her husband on new music in an interview with Romanian entertainment website Zile si Nopti (via The Messenger).
Gimour released his last solo album, Rattle That Lock, in 2015. Last year, he revived Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason for the release of the charity single “Hey, Hey, Rise Up!”, with proceeds benefiting benefit the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
David Gilmour Working on New Music
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Over the last several weeks, Samson has shared a series of photos of Gilmour at British Grove Studios, working alongside a group of collaborators that include their daughter Romany Gilmour, pianist Roger Eno, bassists Tom Herbert and Guy Pratt, drummers Adam Betts and Steve Gadd, and alt-j producer Charlie Andrew. “Great studio, amazing team, lovely people,” Samson captioned one photo.
Samson further confirmed she was working with her husband on new music in an interview with Romanian entertainment website Zile si Nopti (via The Messenger).
Gimour released his last solo album, Rattle That Lock, in 2015. Last year, he revived Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason for the release of the charity single “Hey, Hey, Rise Up!”, with proceeds benefiting benefit the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
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- 12/26/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
David Gilmour has shared a documentary detailing alleged antisemitism from his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, adding another chapter to the decades-long feud between the musicians.
Gilmour retweeted a post about the documentary, entitled The Dark Side of Roger Waters, from the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which produced the report. In the video, BBC journalist John Ware interviews Norbert Statchel, Waters’ former saxophonist, and Bob Ezrin, the music producer who helped helm Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Both men, who are Jewish, recalled experiences in which Rogers said things that were antisemitic.
Statchel retold an instance in which Rogers imitated a stereotypically poor Polish woman as a reference to his Jewish ancestors, and another in which the bassist expressed outrage at a restaurant serving “Jew food.” Erzin recalled Waters describing Bryan Morrison, Pink Floyd’s manager at the time, as a “fucking Jew.” The report also unearths a 2010 email in...
Gilmour retweeted a post about the documentary, entitled The Dark Side of Roger Waters, from the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which produced the report. In the video, BBC journalist John Ware interviews Norbert Statchel, Waters’ former saxophonist, and Bob Ezrin, the music producer who helped helm Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Both men, who are Jewish, recalled experiences in which Rogers said things that were antisemitic.
Statchel retold an instance in which Rogers imitated a stereotypically poor Polish woman as a reference to his Jewish ancestors, and another in which the bassist expressed outrage at a restaurant serving “Jew food.” Erzin recalled Waters describing Bryan Morrison, Pink Floyd’s manager at the time, as a “fucking Jew.” The report also unearths a 2010 email in...
- 10/5/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Roger Waters celebrated the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with a video preview of his upcoming solo re-recording of the seminal 1973 album.
In the brief clip, Waters puts the “me” back into “Us and Them” by stripping the beautifully-layered, late-album epic down to the bassist’s isolated vocals and spare accompaniment. Luckily though, as he quite literally points out in the video, the song’s dramatic instrumental breaks have remained intact.
Waters paired the video with a statement (via Twitter) that further explained the origins of his surprise full-length reimagining after recording the stripped-down Lockdown Sessions during the early pandemic era. Positioning the new take as a “tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album,” he recalled that there was a fair bit of “giggling and shouting ‘You must be fucking mad'” between his...
In the brief clip, Waters puts the “me” back into “Us and Them” by stripping the beautifully-layered, late-album epic down to the bassist’s isolated vocals and spare accompaniment. Luckily though, as he quite literally points out in the video, the song’s dramatic instrumental breaks have remained intact.
Waters paired the video with a statement (via Twitter) that further explained the origins of his surprise full-length reimagining after recording the stripped-down Lockdown Sessions during the early pandemic era. Positioning the new take as a “tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album,” he recalled that there was a fair bit of “giggling and shouting ‘You must be fucking mad'” between his...
- 3/3/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
On 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting grandiose yet chintzy pantomimes of Arthurian legend, sci-fi fantasy and messianic pinball, the Floyd delved into the dark universe of humanity’s inner space; into the stresses and horrors of everyday life that daily push us all to the brink. A record as relatable as it was cosmic, as melodic on the topics of “Time” and “Money” as it was climactic on the themes of war, division and madness, The Dark Side of the Moon set a new standard for high-concept intellectual rock. Forty-five million prism-clad units later, it remains the fourth best-selling record ever made.
Fifty years on, we seem...
Fifty years on, we seem...
- 3/1/2023
- by Mark Beaumont
- The Independent - Music
German concert venues have faced calls to cancel events with Roger Waters amid claims of antisemitism.
Last week, Frankfurt city council called off a performance by the Pink Floyd artist scheduled for 28 May, alleging that Waters was “considered one of the most far-reaching antisemites in the world”.
A number of politicians and Jewish organisations have also criticised Waters for his statements about Israel. In 2013, the artist compared the Israeli government’s “oppression” of the Palestinian people with the actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Waters’ This is Not a Drill tour includes five scheduled concerts in Germany this May.
In Frankfurt, Waters had been booked to perform at Festhalle, on the site of a former Jewish detention camp during World War II.
The council noted that the site’s history, as a location where 3,000 Jewish men were detained before being sent to concentration camps in 1938, had made the prospect...
Last week, Frankfurt city council called off a performance by the Pink Floyd artist scheduled for 28 May, alleging that Waters was “considered one of the most far-reaching antisemites in the world”.
A number of politicians and Jewish organisations have also criticised Waters for his statements about Israel. In 2013, the artist compared the Israeli government’s “oppression” of the Palestinian people with the actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Waters’ This is Not a Drill tour includes five scheduled concerts in Germany this May.
In Frankfurt, Waters had been booked to perform at Festhalle, on the site of a former Jewish detention camp during World War II.
The council noted that the site’s history, as a location where 3,000 Jewish men were detained before being sent to concentration camps in 1938, had made the prospect...
- 2/28/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Music
On 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting grandiose yet chintzy pantomimes of Arthurian legend, sci-fi fantasy and messianic pinball, the Floyd delved into the dark universe of humanity’s inner space; into the stresses and horrors of everyday life that daily push us all to the brink. A record as relatable as it was cosmic, as melodic on the topics of “Time” and “Money” as it was climactic on the themes of war, division and madness, The Dark Side of the Moon set a new standard for high-concept intellectual rock. Forty-five million prism-clad units later, it remains the fourth best-selling record ever made.
Fifty years on, we seem...
Fifty years on, we seem...
- 2/28/2023
- by Mark Beaumont
- The Independent - Music
Hugh Bonneville has torn into former prime minister Boris Johnson, calling him “a man of no principle whatsoever”.
Speaking in a new interview with The Independent, Bonneville, 59, said: “Our lack of leadership is quite stunning. The vacuity of the last two or three secretaries of state for culture is embarrassing. The same goes for our recent foreign secretaries, among whom I count Boris Johnson, a man of no principle whatsoever.”
The actor, who can next be seen in the BBC’s new primetime Sunday night drama The Gold, also lamented the state of the NHS under the Conservative government.
Bonneville, whose father was a doctor and mother was a nurse, said: “I’m hugely worried about the future of the NHS… In the 1970s, dealing with patients directly was the centre of [my parents’] world, and not filling in forms.
“Now the NHS is a vast institution that is not fit for purpose.
Speaking in a new interview with The Independent, Bonneville, 59, said: “Our lack of leadership is quite stunning. The vacuity of the last two or three secretaries of state for culture is embarrassing. The same goes for our recent foreign secretaries, among whom I count Boris Johnson, a man of no principle whatsoever.”
The actor, who can next be seen in the BBC’s new primetime Sunday night drama The Gold, also lamented the state of the NHS under the Conservative government.
Bonneville, whose father was a doctor and mother was a nurse, said: “I’m hugely worried about the future of the NHS… In the 1970s, dealing with patients directly was the centre of [my parents’] world, and not filling in forms.
“Now the NHS is a vast institution that is not fit for purpose.
- 2/12/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
You don’t have to be friends with the people you make music with – but it helps not to be enemies.
The annals of music history are filled with instances of bandmates whose relationships turned sour, from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel to Morrissey and Johnny Marr.
In one of modern music’s bitterest feuds, former Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and David Gilmour have spent years exchanging vitriolic words in the press. This week, Polly Samson, ex-Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, made unsubstantiated allegations against Waters online.
Waters wrote on a social media account that he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, and said he is “currently taking advice as to his position”.
Of course, plenty of great music has been made by people who were at personal loggerheads – just ask Fleetwood Mac.
The annals of music history are filled with instances of bandmates whose relationships turned sour, from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel to Morrissey and Johnny Marr.
In one of modern music’s bitterest feuds, former Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and David Gilmour have spent years exchanging vitriolic words in the press. This week, Polly Samson, ex-Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, made unsubstantiated allegations against Waters online.
Waters wrote on a social media account that he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, and said he is “currently taking advice as to his position”.
Of course, plenty of great music has been made by people who were at personal loggerheads – just ask Fleetwood Mac.
- 2/9/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Music
Roger Waters hars re-recorded one of Pink Floyd’s most-acclaimed albums – by himself.
The musician’s project, which he has been working on in secret, has seen him create a new version of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
According to a new interview, Waters proceeded without telling his former bandmates, including David Gilmour, and has not sought their permission.
Discussing the re-record, Waters, 79, told The Telegraph: “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap. Of course we were a band – there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it, so, blah.”
It’s worth noting that, while Waters wrote the album’s lyrics, he didn’t compose the music for five of the album’s 10 tracks.
According to the outlet, the new album includes narration by Waters, who speaks over...
The musician’s project, which he has been working on in secret, has seen him create a new version of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
According to a new interview, Waters proceeded without telling his former bandmates, including David Gilmour, and has not sought their permission.
Discussing the re-record, Waters, 79, told The Telegraph: “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap. Of course we were a band – there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it, so, blah.”
It’s worth noting that, while Waters wrote the album’s lyrics, he didn’t compose the music for five of the album’s 10 tracks.
According to the outlet, the new album includes narration by Waters, who speaks over...
- 2/9/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Music
Roger Waters said he has been re-recording the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon “[because] not enough people recognised what it’s about, what it was I was saying then,” according to an interview with The Telegraph journalist Tristram Fane Saunders.
In the profile, Waters claimed he’s been working on the new version for months, and that he’s been doing it from scratch—without the help or knowledge of Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Besides Waters, the only collaborators on the new album are reportedly...
In the profile, Waters claimed he’s been working on the new version for months, and that he’s been doing it from scratch—without the help or knowledge of Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Besides Waters, the only collaborators on the new album are reportedly...
- 2/9/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
One of rock’s greatest albums has allegedly been rerecorded by one of its prime architects.
Roger Waters claimed in an interview that he has rerecorded Pink Floyd’s classic rock epic Dark Side of the Moon without any of the other Pink Floyd members. Waters made the revelation in a Feb. 4 interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The interview was translated and published on Waters’ official website.
By rerecording the work — something artists Taylor Swift and Prince did — Waters gains more control of his version of the work, something that has long been a bone of contention between him and other band members.
Waters told the Berliner Zeitung that “the new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album,” he added, “musically and spiritually.”
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985. He later sued the remaining members...
Roger Waters claimed in an interview that he has rerecorded Pink Floyd’s classic rock epic Dark Side of the Moon without any of the other Pink Floyd members. Waters made the revelation in a Feb. 4 interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The interview was translated and published on Waters’ official website.
By rerecording the work — something artists Taylor Swift and Prince did — Waters gains more control of his version of the work, something that has long been a bone of contention between him and other band members.
Waters told the Berliner Zeitung that “the new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album,” he added, “musically and spiritually.”
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985. He later sued the remaining members...
- 2/9/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Walters has reportedly been asked by Russia to speak to the Un Security Council.
Russia wants the Pink Floyd co-founder to appear on Wednesday (8 February) at the meeting to discuss Ukrainian weapon delivery, Reuters reports.
Speaking on the request, an anonymous Un Security diplomat said: "Russian diplomacy used to be serious. What next? Mr Bean?"
Waters has previously written open letters to both the Russian and Ukrainian governments.
The musician was criticised for one he wrote to the Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, in which he argued against the west supplying weapons to Ukraine.
The rock musician has previously claimed that he is on a Ukrainian “kill list” as a result of his controversial comments about the war.
“Don’t forget, I’m on a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government,” Waters said in an interview with Rolling Stone in October.
“I’m on the f***ing list,...
Russia wants the Pink Floyd co-founder to appear on Wednesday (8 February) at the meeting to discuss Ukrainian weapon delivery, Reuters reports.
Speaking on the request, an anonymous Un Security diplomat said: "Russian diplomacy used to be serious. What next? Mr Bean?"
Waters has previously written open letters to both the Russian and Ukrainian governments.
The musician was criticised for one he wrote to the Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, in which he argued against the west supplying weapons to Ukraine.
The rock musician has previously claimed that he is on a Ukrainian “kill list” as a result of his controversial comments about the war.
“Don’t forget, I’m on a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government,” Waters said in an interview with Rolling Stone in October.
“I’m on the f***ing list,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
Russia has invited Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters — who has never held office, but has been involved in left-field political rants in the past — to speak to diplomats at the United Nations about the delivery of weapons to Ukraine on Wednesday, according to a Reuters report.
“Let’s see what he will say. He has a position and you will hear it tomorrow,” said Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, per Reuters. “Perhaps he will sing to us, too.”
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations,...
“Let’s see what he will say. He has a position and you will hear it tomorrow,” said Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, per Reuters. “Perhaps he will sing to us, too.”
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson has accused the band’s co-founder Roger Waters of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”, in an online row over Israel and the Ukraine war.
In an extraordinary attack on Twitter, Samson – who is married to the rock band’s guitarist David Gilmour – also claimed her husband’s former bandmate was a “Putin apologist”, saying: “Enough of your nonsense”.
Waters responded on his official account saying he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, adding: “He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Samson, an acclaimed novelist, wrote lyrics for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album The Division Bell and is credited on solo tracks by her husband Gilmour.
Gilmour and Waters have been feuding for decades since the latter quit the group in 1985 and tried to force the remaining members to formally dissolve it.
In an extraordinary attack on Twitter, Samson – who is married to the rock band’s guitarist David Gilmour – also claimed her husband’s former bandmate was a “Putin apologist”, saying: “Enough of your nonsense”.
Waters responded on his official account saying he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, adding: “He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Samson, an acclaimed novelist, wrote lyrics for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album The Division Bell and is credited on solo tracks by her husband Gilmour.
Gilmour and Waters have been feuding for decades since the latter quit the group in 1985 and tried to force the remaining members to formally dissolve it.
- 2/7/2023
- by Andy Gregory
- The Independent - Music
Janelle Monae has called out a fan for their comment on her Grammys appearance.
The singer and actor, who recently appeared in Glass Onion, attended the 2023 Grammys ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday (5 February).
Following the event, one of Monae’s fans commented on her outfit – and poked fun at the singer’s previous wardrobe choices in the process.
“Janelle Monae finally showing off how fine she is instead of dressing like the monopoly man,” they wrote.
Monae, noticing how many likes the tweet was receiving, replied: “No new music just for this.”
As the tweets continued to rack up the likes, Monae told her 1.2m followers: “35.7k likes?? No new tour. hope it was worth it beloved.”
At the time of writing, the original tweet has been liked 55.7k times.
Monae’s fans jumped to her defence in the reply section, and begged her not to “punish” them for someone else’s comment.
The singer and actor, who recently appeared in Glass Onion, attended the 2023 Grammys ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday (5 February).
Following the event, one of Monae’s fans commented on her outfit – and poked fun at the singer’s previous wardrobe choices in the process.
“Janelle Monae finally showing off how fine she is instead of dressing like the monopoly man,” they wrote.
Monae, noticing how many likes the tweet was receiving, replied: “No new music just for this.”
As the tweets continued to rack up the likes, Monae told her 1.2m followers: “35.7k likes?? No new tour. hope it was worth it beloved.”
At the time of writing, the original tweet has been liked 55.7k times.
Monae’s fans jumped to her defence in the reply section, and begged her not to “punish” them for someone else’s comment.
- 2/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Music
Ben Shapiro has been ridiculed for his complaints about the lack of zombies in The Last of Us’s third episode.
HBO’s hit drama series – adapted from the popular video game of the same name – follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as they make the brutal trek across a post-apocalyptic America.
In episode three of its first season, titled “Long, Long Time”, the focus shifts to a tender love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Barlett). Viewers later find out their greater connection to Joel and the overall plot.
The episode has been hailed by fans for its heartwarming depiction of same-sex love, which The Independent’s Louis Chilton found to be particularly groundbreaking for the genre.
However, conservative pundit Shapiro took issue with the plotline, complaining on Facebook that “the entire episode has no zombies” and “no real threat”.
“It is about two gay...
HBO’s hit drama series – adapted from the popular video game of the same name – follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as they make the brutal trek across a post-apocalyptic America.
In episode three of its first season, titled “Long, Long Time”, the focus shifts to a tender love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Barlett). Viewers later find out their greater connection to Joel and the overall plot.
The episode has been hailed by fans for its heartwarming depiction of same-sex love, which The Independent’s Louis Chilton found to be particularly groundbreaking for the genre.
However, conservative pundit Shapiro took issue with the plotline, complaining on Facebook that “the entire episode has no zombies” and “no real threat”.
“It is about two gay...
- 2/7/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
Brick by brick, the feud between Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and David Gilmour has become one of the great tragicomedies in rock history. This week, a quarrel that has raged on and off (mostly on) since the mid-Eighties took another lurid turn when Gilmour’s wife, novelist and lyricist Polly Samson, accused Rogers of being “a Putin apologist”.
Waters has been catching flak over his repeated calls for the West to stop arming Ukraine in its war with Russia – and for his claims that he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list”. Just so nobody was in any doubt where Gilmour stood, the guitarist later backed his wife, tweeting: “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters, who in 2020 accused Samson of using the Pink Floyd website as a platform for her literary career, hit back. “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by...
Waters has been catching flak over his repeated calls for the West to stop arming Ukraine in its war with Russia – and for his claims that he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list”. Just so nobody was in any doubt where Gilmour stood, the guitarist later backed his wife, tweeting: “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters, who in 2020 accused Samson of using the Pink Floyd website as a platform for her literary career, hit back. “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by...
- 2/7/2023
- by Ed Power
- The Independent - Music
The creator of Lockwood and Co has given Netflix the perfect reason to renew the series.
Since its release last month, the show has become a sleeper hti for the streaming service, which would typically make a season two renewal a certainty.
However in recent years Netflix has made a habit of cancelling shows despite them being at the top of the service’s most-watched charts, leading to widespread criticism.
Lockwood and Co fans enjoying the series are urging the service not to cancel the show – and Attack the Block director Cornish himself has explained why that would be a disappointing decision.
Firstly, season one covers the first two books in Jonathan Stroud’s books series: The Screaming Staircase and The Whispering Skull.
Speaking to Empire in the new issue, Cornish confirms that the initial run of Lockwood & Co covers the first two books in Stroud’s five-book series.
Since its release last month, the show has become a sleeper hti for the streaming service, which would typically make a season two renewal a certainty.
However in recent years Netflix has made a habit of cancelling shows despite them being at the top of the service’s most-watched charts, leading to widespread criticism.
Lockwood and Co fans enjoying the series are urging the service not to cancel the show – and Attack the Block director Cornish himself has explained why that would be a disappointing decision.
Firstly, season one covers the first two books in Jonathan Stroud’s books series: The Screaming Staircase and The Whispering Skull.
Speaking to Empire in the new issue, Cornish confirms that the initial run of Lockwood & Co covers the first two books in Stroud’s five-book series.
- 2/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s wife has accused his former bandmate Roger Waters of being an anti-Semite. Polly Samson claims that bassist Waters, 79, holds anti-Semitic views and is a ‘Vladimir Putin apologist’, and her guitarist husband Gilmour, 76, shared her message on Twitter along with the statement “every word demonstrably true”.
The author-and-lyricist – who worked with her husband on songs for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album ‘The Division Bell’ – appeared to be responding to an interview Waters gave to a German newspaper, in which he defended some of Russia’s actions in the war with Ukraine, reports ‘Female First UK’.
Waters has previously referred to Putin as a gangster, and said in the new interview that the country had been provoked into invading Ukraine by the actions of Nato and the US.
Sharing a link to the article, he claimed over the weekend that it had been published “against the backdrop...
The author-and-lyricist – who worked with her husband on songs for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album ‘The Division Bell’ – appeared to be responding to an interview Waters gave to a German newspaper, in which he defended some of Russia’s actions in the war with Ukraine, reports ‘Female First UK’.
Waters has previously referred to Putin as a gangster, and said in the new interview that the country had been provoked into invading Ukraine by the actions of Nato and the US.
Sharing a link to the article, he claimed over the weekend that it had been published “against the backdrop...
- 2/7/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
The Last of Us viewers are reacting to the series briniging one of the videogame’s funniest moments to life.
On Sunday (5 February), the HBO adaptation aired its fourth episode, which saw Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay) reach the next dangerous stage of their post-apocalyptic journey.
Picking up where the previous episode left of, the instalment saw Joel driving the car of his deceased friends Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett), with Ellie rifling through their belongings in the backseat.
Players of co-creator Neil Druckmann’s video game would have known what was coming next. Ellie finds a porn magazine and asks a mortified Joel: “Why are all these pages are stuck together?”
After he pauses, not knowing how to answer, Ellie, laughing, exclaims: “I’m just f***ing with ya,” before throwing the magazine out of the car window.
The scene is practically a shot-for-shot recreation of the video game sequence,...
On Sunday (5 February), the HBO adaptation aired its fourth episode, which saw Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay) reach the next dangerous stage of their post-apocalyptic journey.
Picking up where the previous episode left of, the instalment saw Joel driving the car of his deceased friends Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett), with Ellie rifling through their belongings in the backseat.
Players of co-creator Neil Druckmann’s video game would have known what was coming next. Ellie finds a porn magazine and asks a mortified Joel: “Why are all these pages are stuck together?”
After he pauses, not knowing how to answer, Ellie, laughing, exclaims: “I’m just f***ing with ya,” before throwing the magazine out of the car window.
The scene is practically a shot-for-shot recreation of the video game sequence,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Lorraine Kelly says she feels that Madonna “doesn’t really look like herself” following her recent appearance at the Grammys.
The singer, 64, made an appearance at the 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday (5 February) night, where she introduced Sam Smith and Kim Petras for their rendition of chart-topper “Unholy”.
However, some viewers at home claimed that Madonna looked “unrecognisable” during the segment.
Discussing the singer’s new look on Tuesday (7 February) morning’s episode of Lorraine, Kelly said that it was a “shame” the singer had changed her appearance.
“She doesn’t really look like herself,” said the Scottish presenter.
“I just think it’s a little bit disappointing that she feels like she has to. It’s a shame.”
However, Kelly stressed that Madonna, with her lengthy career, had “paid her dues” and could do “whatever she wants”.
The Independent has contacted Madonna’s representatives for comment.
Madonna’s name...
The singer, 64, made an appearance at the 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday (5 February) night, where she introduced Sam Smith and Kim Petras for their rendition of chart-topper “Unholy”.
However, some viewers at home claimed that Madonna looked “unrecognisable” during the segment.
Discussing the singer’s new look on Tuesday (7 February) morning’s episode of Lorraine, Kelly said that it was a “shame” the singer had changed her appearance.
“She doesn’t really look like herself,” said the Scottish presenter.
“I just think it’s a little bit disappointing that she feels like she has to. It’s a shame.”
However, Kelly stressed that Madonna, with her lengthy career, had “paid her dues” and could do “whatever she wants”.
The Independent has contacted Madonna’s representatives for comment.
Madonna’s name...
- 2/7/2023
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - TV
Ant-Man star Evangeline Lilly has expressed the belief she needs her own standalone Marvel film.
The actor, who shot the fame as Kate Austen in Lost, has been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since 2015’s Ant-Man.
Since then, she has appared in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2020).
Lilly will next be seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which Marvel fans are sharing their verdicts on following its US premiere.
Speaking on the red carpet, Lilly said she feels like an “Avengers senior”, and said she is going to make it known that she would like her character, Hope van Dyne, to have her own MCU film.
“Well, I’m going to make a pitch that I think it might be time for a Hope spin-off... for a Wasp standalone film,” she told Variety.
She added: “Do we agree? Anybody? Going once... going twice.”
Talking...
The actor, who shot the fame as Kate Austen in Lost, has been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since 2015’s Ant-Man.
Since then, she has appared in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2020).
Lilly will next be seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which Marvel fans are sharing their verdicts on following its US premiere.
Speaking on the red carpet, Lilly said she feels like an “Avengers senior”, and said she is going to make it known that she would like her character, Hope van Dyne, to have her own MCU film.
“Well, I’m going to make a pitch that I think it might be time for a Hope spin-off... for a Wasp standalone film,” she told Variety.
She added: “Do we agree? Anybody? Going once... going twice.”
Talking...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson has accused the band’s co-founder Roger Waters of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”, in an online row over Israel and the Ukraine war.
In an extraordinary attack on Twitter, Samson – who is married to the legendary psychedelic rock band’s guitarist David Gilmour – also claimed her husband’s former bandmate was a “Putin apologist”, saying: “Enough of your nonsense”.
Waters responded on his official account saying he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, adding: “he is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Samson, an acclaimed novelist, wrote lyrics for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album The Division Bell and is credited on solo tracks by her husband Gilmour.
Gilmour and Waters have been feuding for decades since the latter quit the group in 1985 and tried to force the remaining members to formally dissolve it.
In an extraordinary attack on Twitter, Samson – who is married to the legendary psychedelic rock band’s guitarist David Gilmour – also claimed her husband’s former bandmate was a “Putin apologist”, saying: “Enough of your nonsense”.
Waters responded on his official account saying he was “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”, adding: “he is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Samson, an acclaimed novelist, wrote lyrics for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album The Division Bell and is credited on solo tracks by her husband Gilmour.
Gilmour and Waters have been feuding for decades since the latter quit the group in 1985 and tried to force the remaining members to formally dissolve it.
- 2/7/2023
- by Andy Gregory
- The Independent - Music
The decades-long rift between Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters doesn’t show signs of mending anytime soon. On Monday, Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson, who helped write several songs after Waters’ left the band in 1985, took to social media to publicly criticize Waters.
“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” wrote Samson on Twitter. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”
Gilmour liked the post, retweeting it, and in a show of support, wrote “Every word demonstrably true.
“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” wrote Samson on Twitter. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”
Gilmour liked the post, retweeting it, and in a show of support, wrote “Every word demonstrably true.
- 2/7/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour tweeted support for Ukraine on Tuesday. “Russian soldiers, stop killing your brothers,” he wrote. “There will be no winners in this war.” He punctuated his message by saying, “Putin must go.”
In the tweet, he included the lyric video for his 2015 antiwar song, “In Any Tongue.” Its words, written by Polly Samson — Gilmour’s wife and collaborator since Pink Floyd’s Division Bell album — describe soldiers dying and children crying. “I hear ‘Mama’ sounds the same in any tongue,” goes one refrain. The song...
In the tweet, he included the lyric video for his 2015 antiwar song, “In Any Tongue.” Its words, written by Polly Samson — Gilmour’s wife and collaborator since Pink Floyd’s Division Bell album — describe soldiers dying and children crying. “I hear ‘Mama’ sounds the same in any tongue,” goes one refrain. The song...
- 3/1/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a late-May afternoon, and Polly Samson and her husband, former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour, are seated side-by-side for a Zoom interview in what looks like a Greek restaurant with brick walls and windows fashioned in ornate geometric shapes. It’s the perfect setting to discuss Samson’s latest novel, A Theater for Dreamers, which is about a group of artists, including Leonard Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen, who lived on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, and how men and women work (or don’t work) creatively together.
- 6/7/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Right about now, you might find yourself asking: “Didn’t Record Store Day already happen this year?” Well, yes — three times. Those were the “drops” created to replace the original April 2020 Record Store Day, which was canceled for pandemic reasons. This Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving Record Store Day is happening as planned, making a grand total of four events this year. It might seem like a lot, but independent record stores have really been hurting lately, and your local shop would almost certainly appreciate your business. Here are 16 of the...
- 11/25/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Andy Greene, Jonathan Bernstein, Patrick Doyle, Hank Shteamer and Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour is finally giving a wide release to his first new song in five years, “Yes, I Have Ghosts.” Previously, the former Pink Floyd frontman released the tune via the audiobook edition of his wife and long-time collaborator Polly Samson’s novel, A Theatre for Dreamers.
Over a waltzing acoustic guitar line and harp played by Gilmour’s daughter, Romany, he sings about “specters of strangers” and fleeting faces in a crowd. “Yes, I have ghosts,” he sings, “Not all of them dead/Making dust of my dreams/Spinning round and around,...
Over a waltzing acoustic guitar line and harp played by Gilmour’s daughter, Romany, he sings about “specters of strangers” and fleeting faces in a crowd. “Yes, I have ghosts,” he sings, “Not all of them dead/Making dust of my dreams/Spinning round and around,...
- 7/3/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour will release his first new song in five years via an unusual format, the audiobook.
The track, “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be available initially only on the audio edition of A Theatre for Dreamers, the latest novel by Gilmour’s wife and long-time collaborator, Polly Samson. The recording also features music Gilmour wrote for the story to accompany Samson’s narration. The audiobook will come out on June 25th, and the wide release of “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be a week later.
“Polly’s vivid and poetic writing,...
The track, “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be available initially only on the audio edition of A Theatre for Dreamers, the latest novel by Gilmour’s wife and long-time collaborator, Polly Samson. The recording also features music Gilmour wrote for the story to accompany Samson’s narration. The audiobook will come out on June 25th, and the wide release of “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be a week later.
“Polly’s vivid and poetic writing,...
- 6/12/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd have been little more than a memory for the past quarter-century, and the three surviving members are now in their mid-seventies, but their ancient feud somehow lingers on. The latest battle revolves around Waters being locked out of the band’s official website and Facebook page. That means he can’t share news of any of his solo projects, including his upcoming This Is Not a Drill Tour and his new rendition of “Mother,” with Floyd fans. He recently took to his own Facebook page to vent about the situation.
- 5/19/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour has always worked hard to keep the memory of his Pink Floyd predecessor, Syd Barrett, alive. Most recently, he paid tribute by covering two tracks by Barrett on a family livestream.
Over the years, Gilmour has kept songs from 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as staples in the set lists for both Pink Floyd’s and his solo tours — despite the fact that he didn’t play on that record. And, in 1970, he co-produced two solo albums by Barrett: The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. During the livestream,...
Over the years, Gilmour has kept songs from 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as staples in the set lists for both Pink Floyd’s and his solo tours — despite the fact that he didn’t play on that record. And, in 1970, he co-produced two solo albums by Barrett: The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. During the livestream,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his family hosted another digital event celebrating the release of the new novel Theater for Dreamers, by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife and longtime creative collaborator. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties, and features Leonard Cohen, who lived there at the time, as one of the characters.
On the first broadcast, Gilmour played the Cohen tunes “So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on the Wire.” This time around, he reached far deeper into the catalog and dug out “Fingerprints,...
On the first broadcast, Gilmour played the Cohen tunes “So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on the Wire.” This time around, he reached far deeper into the catalog and dug out “Fingerprints,...
- 4/13/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
David Gilmour made a rare public appearance earlier this week when he played two Leonard Cohen songs at the digital book-launch event for A Theatre for Dreamers, a new novel written by Polly Samson, his wife and longtime co-lyricist. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties, and Cohen, who lived there at the time, is a character.
It was a relatively unique chance to see Gilmour play music written by another artist. His solo shows going all the way back to his first...
It was a relatively unique chance to see Gilmour play music written by another artist. His solo shows going all the way back to his first...
- 4/9/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues and millions remain quarantined around the globe, more and more musicians have joined the streaming trend — performing live from their couches, kitchens, and even bathrooms — while consoling fans. Even classic bands like the Grateful Dead are streaming archival concerts, reminding listeners of a time when we weren’t so full of uncertainty and fear. From David Gilmour to Residente, here’s a new list of the best streamed performances from the stay-at-home era.
Grateful Dead
Starting Friday, the Dead will kick off a weekly streaming series on their YouTube channel,...
Grateful Dead
Starting Friday, the Dead will kick off a weekly streaming series on their YouTube channel,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Joseph Hudak, Kory Grow, Suzy Exposito and Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Polly Samson — wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his long-time co-lyricist — originally planned on promoting her new novel Theater for Dreamers with a large public event at Central Hall Westminster in London this week.
When coronavirus shut-in orders made that impossible, she set up a livestream event in which she spoke about the book and occasionally paused so Gilmour could play some Leonard Cohen songs. (Fast-forward to 7:46 for “Bird on the Wire” and 30:08 for “So Long Marianne.”)
Gilmour went with Cohen tunes since Theater for Dreamers...
When coronavirus shut-in orders made that impossible, she set up a livestream event in which she spoke about the book and occasionally paused so Gilmour could play some Leonard Cohen songs. (Fast-forward to 7:46 for “Bird on the Wire” and 30:08 for “So Long Marianne.”)
Gilmour went with Cohen tunes since Theater for Dreamers...
- 4/8/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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