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Janelle Borg

“I think we changed him as much as he changed us – he was loving the guitar solo thing by the end”: David Gilmour on how he won over Luck and Strange’s solo-sceptic producer

David Gilmour.

When Alt-J and London Grammar music producer Charlie Andrew was announced as David Gilmour's collaborator for his first solo album in nearly a decade, the Pink Floyd icon hailed his “wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine”.

“He said things like, ‘Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’ and ‘Do they all fade out? Can’t some of them just end?’” Gilmour said when Luck and Strange was announced.

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