| David
Gilmour was born in Cambridge on March 6th 1946. As a child Gilmour grew
up listening to the likes of Rock around The Clock by Bill Haley and the
Comets, and Jailhouse Rock. During his time as a student at Cambridge
College Of Arts and Technology, Gimour had met the future founder of Pink
Floyd, Syd Barrett. They had |
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really good friends and spent all of their lunchtimes in the colleges art
department playing Beatles and Stones riffs. Gimour played in a lot of
bands and had a variety of jobs including a fashion model and a van driver. |
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he was invited by Syd Barrett to the Sound Techniques Studio in Chelsea,
to see Pink Floyd record their single, "See Emily Play". during
this time Syd Barrett`s health was deteriorating due to excess drug
experimentation. After Pink Floyd`s first album, Piper at The Gates Of
Dawn, Gilmour was approached by Floyd drummer, Nick Mason to replace
Barrett. hence a second album, A Suacerful of Secrets, featured both
Gilmour and Barrett. |
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next Pink Floyd album was Ummagumma, which featured Gilmour`s first to
write lyrics and some beautiful guitar work including his song, The Narrow
wt Parts 1-3. The soon came out with, Dark Side of The Moon, which was the
biggest success og Gilmour`s career. Gilmour`s highlights were his solos
in, Money and Time. The next album , Wish You Where Here, |
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This was written for his old college friend
and former band owner. Syd ironically showed up as they were recording it.
Gilmour has never seen him since. In 1977 They recorded, Animals, which
again had awesome guitar work shown from Gilmour. The Wall, soon followed
in 1979. During this time tension grew in the band, and Rick Wright left
leaving Waters and |
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to fight it out. Gilmour finally won the right to the Pink Floyd name
after Waters had left the band. This led to their first album as a trio, A
Momemtary Lapse of Reason. Gilmour did some other acoustic work
afterwards. |
