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David Gilmour's Profile
Guitarist and singer in Pink Floyd
Born: March 6, 1946, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge
When Syd Barrett became to unstable the other members of Pink Floyd decided to get a new guitarist for the band. Jeff Beck was considered but found to expensive. Instead they choose David Gilmour who had been noticed as singer and guitarist in Jokers Wild. When Gilmour took over the guitar he was accused by many for copying Syd's style. But in fact they were old childhood friends and Gilmour was the one teaching Barrett how to play a guitar.
Gilmour
became a full member of the band already from their second album A Saucerful
Of Secrets and he has been the front figure after the break with Roger
Waters in 1985. With new albums (Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division
Bell) and two world tours he has managed to revive the success of the
band and secure a new generation of Floyd fans. If Gilmour lacks a little
of Roger Waters' creative and composing force, there is no doubt he is
among the finest guitar players in the world.
In the early Nineties Gilmour was divorced from his wife Ginger. He now lives with Polly Samson, a journalist who has also been writing some of the lyrics for the Division Bell. He has four children with Ginger and a son (1991) with Polly Samson. Gilmour is a neighbour to his friend and band mate Nick Mason in Maida Vale, London -and has a fully equipped recording studio (The Astoria) on his houseboat on Thames.
David Gilmour gave a few solo concerts in 2002. Video from the concerts is released on the DVD/Video: David Gilmour in Concert.
