David Gilmour, life after Pink Floyd

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David Gilmour talks about the design of Rattle that Lock and explains why, this time, Pink Floyd is really over. By Andy Greene.

March 6, 1946: Birth of David Gilmour

David Gilmour has been quiet since the end of the tour On an Island in 2006. But The Endless RiverPink Floyd’s largely instrumental farewell album released by surprise will have sufficiently motivated the singer-songwriter to make him want to finish his next solo album, Rattle That Lockin stores on September 18, 2015. A sort of concept album, the LP describes the thoughts and feelings of a man over the course of a day, and musically, with its fluidity and ethereal atmosphere, it recalls the post-Roger albums Waters by Pink Floyd.

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