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The powerhouse Gilmour–Waters partnership is no more – and Floyd fans will most likely never experience it again

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

Collaboration, family, mortality and that stridently emotive guitar work - it's all there on David Gilmour's sixth studio album Luck And Strange

David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October

Pink Floyd explored the theme of communication on 1994 album The Division Bell – despite their infamous communication issues

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

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit

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

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