David Gilmour Biography: His early Years
Welcome to the David Gilmour Biography. The vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd was born in Cambridge, London in March 6, 1946.
When a teenager he went to Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and met Syd Barrett and together they used to spend their lunch times playing guitar. They had spent a lot of their guitar sessions playing The Beatles tunes.
Continuing as a youngster, Gilmour joined a band called Joker`s Wild during 1963 for 3 years and in 1966 he left had and joined a ring called Bullitt which then changed to Flowers. He had spent a lot of his time playing in Spain and France with his band Flowers and two years later he received a call from Pink Floyd asking him to unite them for the use of replacing the dysfunctional band member Syd Barrett engaged in excess drug consumptions. Gilmour started filling in for Syd`s absent days until eventually Syd became unfeasible and left the band. Gilmour so permanently replaced him and so took advantage of becoming the top guitarist and participated with the lead vocals with Roger. David Gilmour`s first marriage was to Ginger whom he had 4 children. Their names are Alice, Claire, Sarah and Matthew. Gilmour is now married to his second wife, Polly Samson and has 3 children from her, Joe, Gabriel and has adopted Polly`s first born child, Charlie. What he did for Pink Floyd David Gilmour is well known for his soothing guitar sound with delicate string bends and slides that makes his playing style unique to many others. This on with his heavenly voice sound is used widely on most of the successful Pink Floyd albums in the 1970`s including the band`s biggest ever album Dark Side of the Moon. Gilmour owned much of the Pink Floyd sound.
David Gilmour discography: The main Pink Floyd years
After being apart of albums following Dark Side of The Moon such as Wish You Were Here(1975), Animals(1977) and The Wall(1979) David Gilmour`s relationship with Waters grew black as Waters increasingly took control of the band. In 1985, Roger Waters no longer wanted Pink Floyd to take on and tried to ruin the band. However Gilmour really stepped in and tried as strong as possible to stop Waters from doing this by filing a number of law suits. After spending a lot of money on numerous law suits and often hard work, Gilmour got Floyd back again and took total control of the band.
Gilmour stated:
"I had a bit of problems with the way of the phone in our recent past, before Roger left. I see the songs were very dull and that, because the specific meanings of those words were so important, the music became a mere vehicle for lyrics, and not a very inspiring one_ Dark Side of the Moon and Charge You Were Here were so successful not simply because of Roger`s contributions, but also because there was a better balance between the music and the lyrics than there has been in more recent albums. That`s what I`m trying to do with A Momentary Lapse of Reason more stress on the music, restore the balance."
David Gilmour discography: His solo career
Gilmour has also produced his own solo albums as well as the Pink Floyd albums. His first one titled David Gilmour was produced in 1978 which was produced before album `The Wall` was released. The 2nd album that Gilmour produced `About Face` was brought out after the `The Wall` in 1984. Both of these albums were not very successful. Also, in between band duties. Gilmour has performed with many other stars such as Roy Harper, Kate Bush - whom he had founded, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Elton John, Arcadia, Bryan Ferry, Berlin, Robert Wyatt, Paul McCartney, Sam Brown, Jools Holland, Pete Townshend, Alan Parsons, and more His Guitar working ability Gilmour does not work fast, instead he plays few notes with very expressive string bending, slides and double stops. I like to say it like this `he talks through his guitar playing`. When he was young Gilmour used to Sit listening to the radio with his guitar and try to be what he heard also incorporating the rich notes. He makes use of the standard riffs that all bringers use but bring them with his own meaning. He actually said that he makes use of several musical phrases used in `Gone with the Wind`. David Gilmour can also play bass guitar and has very lately been playing the saxophone which is heard on one of his tracks on his new album `On an Island`.
Amongst his various Pink Floyd work, here are a bit of David Gilmour`s solo albums:
David Gilmour albums (Solo)
Live in Gdansk
Remember that night
On an Island
David Gilmour
About Face
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