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"I did start by saying: 'Do we need another guitar solo here?'" David Gilmour on boomer fortune and the making of Luck And Strange

For Luck And Strange David Gilmour assembled a team that produced "the best album I've made since The Dark Side Of The Moon"

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“The Stratocaster is a clearer signal… the person who’s playing it is more recognizable on a Strat than on a Les Paul”: David Gilmour on breaking free from his past, the guitars he couldn’t face selling and why one Black Strat is as good as another

Luck and Strange, Gilmour’s first solo album in nine years, came together in a barn, features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a rotating cast of vintage guitars, and a producer who challenged him to take his sound to new places

Guitar World

“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

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“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

Gilmour has also addressed whether he feels pressured to deliver solos on the fly – and how he writes them

Guitar World

"Imbued with tropical, fado or flamenco vibes, as if recorded in a hammock on a private beach somewhere": Luck And Strange finds David Gilmour in relaxed, reflective form

David Gilmour’s fifth solo album muses on heavy concernsbut dreams of cool evenings on the Mediterranean

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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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“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

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“The Pink Floyd legend rolls back the years for a mighty comeback”: David Gilmour shares the lead single from his first solo album in 9 years – and it features one-and-a-half minutes of all-out soloing

Upcoming album Luck and Strange was made with the help of a new producer who tore up the Gilmour rulebook

Guitar World

“He said things like, ’Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’… He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine”: David Gilmour’s first solo album in 9 years features a new producer tearing up the rulebook

The first single from Luck and Strange drops tomorrow

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"It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright features on David Gilmour's Luck And Strange

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