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They don't all go as smooth and successfully as Oasis, as The Verve, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins and more will tell you...

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“The piano just started speaking to me”: How Kate Bush stunned David Gilmour with a masterpiece of songwriting she made at just 13 years old

The early song was unmistakable evidence of Bush’s boundless talents

MusicRadar

“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

As we approach Wish You Were Here's 50th anniversary, we analyse the sublimely strange structure of its ambitious title track

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“They had the arrangement and I went, ‘Oh, this is finally my David Gilmour moment.’ The hair on my arms stood up”: Keith Scott on the making of Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – the record-breaking hit no one saw coming

Scott remembers how a “plaintive melody” from Michael Kamen intrigued Mutt Lange and was shaped into Bryan Adams' biggest, hit, giving Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves the anthem it needed

MusicRadar

New David Gilmour tour film and live album confirmed for later this year - watch him dip into the Pink Floyd songbook in the trailer

Live At The Circus Maximus hits cinemas in September

MusicRadar

“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

Louder

“I got a phone call from L.A. It’s David going, ‘We’re putting Pink Floyd back together. Would you be interested and available?’” Why David Gilmour's go-to bassist for the past four decades very nearly didn't get the gig

Guy Pratt – whose résumé includes Roxy Music, Madonna and Michael Jackson, to name a mere few – recalls his awkward first meeting with the Pink Floyd guitarist

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Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour in planning row with neighbours over new shed

Camden Council received complaints from neighbours who claim the new shed is “overbearing”

Evening Standard

David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album

David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October

Louder

"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

Louder

“It’s for the ‘big spliff’ crowd, who frankly get terrified by Dogs or The Wall”: The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River

The biggest influence on The Endless River? Pink Floyd themselves. Here are the sounds from the band’s past that informed their 2014 release

Louder

“A knockout instrument imbued with modern performance enhancements”: John Page Signature The DL review

He has made top-tier electrics for Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and Pete Townshend, and now John Page will make one for you, too

Guitar World

“This powerhouse pedal authentically recreates the complex sonic magic of its inspiration”: Boss puts psychedelic Hendrix and Gilmour rotating speaker sounds on the menu with the RT-2 Rotary Ensemble

What do you do when everyone loves that trippy rotating speaker sound but no has the space (or budget) for one? Boss has the answer – and it has three modes and lots of features

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“This is the way Leo would be building guitars if he were still alive. In our eyes, G&L is more ‘Fender’ than Fender actually is”: How G&L Guitars is carrying on the legacy of Leo Fender

G&L director of sales Steve Araujo on the other brand that Leo Fender built, and the innovations that have made it a favorite of A-list pros such as Jerry Cantrell

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“Pink Floyd was bigger than a band. It was more like church. They played A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in its entirety and I thought, ‘I want to be around this all the time’”: Why Billy Howerdel is glad he copied David Gilmour badly

A Perfect Circle guitarist recalls deciding to become a musician during 1988 concert, and hails Gilmour’s substance-over-quality approach

Louder

"I am Spartacus." Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters risks prosecution, and a potential 14 year jail term, by voicing his support for Palestine Action, now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK

"Stand up and be counted" writes Waters on social media in post supporting newly proscribed terrorist group

Louder

“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

The story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic songs

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Neighbours at war over Pink Floyd guitarist’s garden shed

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The Independent UK

Pink Floyd guitarist caught in planning row over ‘obtrusive’ garden shed

Residents’ group in north London claims ‘overbearing’ shed more “intrusive” than the original application

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'Thank you for the miraculous work...' Pink Floyd's David Gilmour pays tribute to Nordoff and Robbins charity as he accepts O2 Silver Clef Award

David Gilmour, Rick Astley and Sophie Ellis-Bextor were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Wednesday night (03.07.25).

The Independent UK

Live 8 – 20 years on: how the Pink Floyd reunion topped a miraculous line-up

PLAYBACK: Macca played with Bono and George Michael, Elton John with Pete Doherty, but getting Roger Waters and David Gilmour together for the final time really took some doing. Mark Beaumont remembers a history-making day, with the help of Razorlight and UB40

Guitar World

“I wasn’t credited with any songwriting. That was a pity. But I didn’t make a fuss. I figured Peter was still pretty fragile”: Snowy White on his uncredited role on Peter Green’s comeback LP and how David Gilmour introduced him to the Whammy pedal

The ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist toured the world with Roger Waters, played with Gary Moore, but now he has retired from the stage, he admits he was never entirely comfortable with pop status

Guitar World

“Gibson had lost the recipe, not only for guitar building but for pickup making based on their original designs. What I was after was making a rock ’n’ roll pickup”: How Larry DiMarzio changed the sound of rock guitar – and redesigned the Strat bridge

The master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset took him from repair shop to working with the biggest names in the biz and changing the face of rock guitar

The Guardian - UK

Mick Ralphs obituary

Skilful guitarist and songwriter with the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company

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“Did he expect to find us as we had been seven years earlier, ready to start to work with him again?”: The strange, sad day that Syd Barrett unexpectedly showed up in the studio when Pink Floyd were making Wish You Were Here

The making of Pink Floyd’s 1975 masterpiece was partly a tribute to their former frontman - but when Syd Barrett himself appeared at the studio, his former bandmates took a while to realise it was actually him

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