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“We could be as rude and insulting to each other about our personalities and our music as we wanted”: David Gilmour on the ‘earlier stages’ of Pink Floyd

David Gilmour thinks people give him too much deference these days

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“We were at an EMI dinner, and David Gilmour was there. I said, ‘By far, you’re my favorite guitar player. How do you come up with those melodies?’” W.A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless on the invaluable advice he received from the Pink Floyd icon

Lawless has also revealed why he had to switch to bass for the band's first two albums

Guitar World

“It’s boring. It’s over. He left our pop group when I was in my 30s.” David Gilmour says he'll talk about his fall-out with Roger Waters “one day”, admits he doesn't know his old friend's post-Pink Floyd work

David Gilmour on Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Pink Floyd

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“I’m terrified… I want my child to grow up able to speak her mind and to have opinions of her own”: Why Airbag had to call out cancel culture on The Century Of The Self

Guitarist Bjørn Riis says their new concept album grew with the benefit of no record label deadline – but that it was still important to set their own completion date

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Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt features on poignant new Pure Reason Revolution single Betrayal

UK prog quartet Pure Reason Revolution will release new album Coming Up To Consciousness in September

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Buying new headphones? These are the 7 songs I always use for testing in my reviews

I test headphones for a living, and these are the seven songs I always listen to to test the bass, treble and more — from Pink Floyd and Twenty One Pilots to Lana Del Rey and Four Tet.

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Post your questions for David Gilmour

As he prepares to release a new solo album and go on tour, the Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist will answer your questions

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“He asks the tech to put a light close to him so he sweats more. He likes feeling that we’re fully engaging ourselves”: When Von Hertzen Brothers began their ascent out of Finland

Already huge in their home country, fourth album Stars Aligned was their chance to sell their brand of prog – inspired by Queen and Pink Floyd, among others – to the wider world

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Pink Floyd Dominates UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Again

Pink Floyd dominates UK Rock & Metal Albums chart with classic albums like 'The Wall' and 'The Dark Side of the Moon' maintaining strong positions. Stay tu...

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“This is very different to what I'm used to. I don't know why I didn't discover one of these a long time ago”: Strat fanatic David Gilmour has fallen in love with the Gibson ES-335 after all this time – and he’s used one for the solo on his latest single

Gilmour says his forthcoming solo album is his best piece of work since The Dark Side of the Moon, and its latest single cements the Pink Floyd legend's new-found love for the semi-hollow classic

Guitar World

I just ditched my Bose QuietComfort for these $89 earbuds — and the sound quality is bonkers

The new EarFun Air Pro 4 take what the Air Pro 3 did right and improve on it. Powerful audio, extremely effective ANC, supreme comfort levels — what's not to like?

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“This is the best album I’ve made since The Dark Side of the Moon”: David Gilmour says his first solo record in 9 years is good enough to rival his best Pink Floyd work – and one of the best guitar albums ever

Gilmour will release Luck and Strange later this year, and if his own words are to be believed, it could shape up to be a classic

Guitar World

“It became cool to slag off prog, but what do you think these punk musicians did when they got home? Listened to the bands they’d been having a go at”: JJ Burnel on how Caravan inspired a Stranglers track

After falling in love with In The Land Of Grey And Pink, the bassist created Down In The Sewer as a response – and if that makes his band prog, he’s fine with it

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"The thing to do would be to have an AI situation where David and Roger become friends again": Nick Mason's hope for the future of Pink Floyd

Nick Mason says artificial intelligence might be Pink Floyd's only hope of reconcilation

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“The greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow”: revisiting David Gilmour’s tribute to Richard Wright on what would have been the keyboardist’s 81st birthday

The Pink Floyd pair were on good terms before Wright’s death from cancer in 2008

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Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned

Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July

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“I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd

"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

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“There’s going to be a feeling of loss but a huge sense of relief… I’ve had my time with them. I’m finding new friends now and they can move on”: When David Gilmour auctioned 123 of his guitars for charity

Just before he raised a record-breaking $21.5m, the veteran axe hero showed and played some of the historic instrument’s he’d decided to part with

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"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?": In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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"Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job

It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

Guitar World

“I can’t explain what it is about a guitar that makes it special. This one is different”: David Gilmour couldn’t bear to sell this guitar at auction – now it’s all over his new solo album

The Pink Floyd legend is showcasing the guitars he used to record his upcoming record – and one is a vintage six-string he held back from the mammoth Gilmour auction in 2019

Guitar World

“David Gilmour had been playing the riff. I said, ‘And then what happens?’ And he said, ‘No, that’s it.’ I said, ’Do you mind if I see what happens next?’” Roger Waters reflects on writing Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here – and the meaning behind it

David Gilmour's Wish You Were Here guitar intro served as the catalyst that inspired the beloved Pink Floyd track

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"Led Zeppelin left behind a body of music that defined the term 'progressive rock', but in the truest sense of the word": The case for Led Zeppelin, uncrowned kings of prog rock

A blues band? A hard rock band? Think again

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“We are engaged here tonight in part of a larger existential battle for the very soul of the human race.” Watch Roger Waters play Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here at London concert promoting peace, freedom and justice for Palestine

Roger Waters labels Labour leader Keir Starmer a "genocide enabler" at Stand Up For Palestine benefit show in London

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“We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight

Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

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