You wouldn’t use the word ‘prolific’ to describe David Gilmour, at least not when it comes to putting out music. His new album, Luck And Strange, comes nearly nine years after its predecessor, Rattle That Lock, which itself ended a nine-year wait (although to be fair, he had been working on the posthumous Pink Floyd record The Endless River, which came out the year before). Gilmour has never been one to ‘crank ’em out’, of course, and since Floyd’s final tour, in 1994, he’s released just three studio albums.
“I don’t have a huge ambition any more,” Gilmour, now 78, told us during the Rattle That Lock campaign. “In past years there was a lot of thinking about the career and wanting to achieve success. It’s sort of turned into something more calm and less ambitious in my later years. I’ll get round to doing something again before too long, I hope, but I have no idea. I haven’t planned anything.”
