Former Pink Floyd star David Gilmour has announced his first UK solo exhibition in eight years and will appear at London’s Royal Albert Hall for six nights in October.
The musician, 78, posted the news on social media and shared a glimpse of the iconic venue ahead of the release of his new album Luck and Strange.
But Pink Floyd fans will be disappointed when David revealed he will only be performing their new material and none of the rock band’s hits from their heyday, saying he was “unwilling to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies.”
He said Without cutting: ‘(Other decades) could be better represented. I mean, at least one from the sixties. The one we have done in the past is ‘Astronomy’ from 1967.
David left Pink Floyd in 1985 after falling out with Roger Waters and their long-running feud continues to this day.
Former Pink Floyd star David Gilmour, 78, has announced his first UK solo exhibition in eight years and will appear at London’s Royal Albert Hall for six nights in October (pictured in 2019) .
But Pink Floyd fans will be disappointed when David revealed that he will only be performing their new material and none of the rock band’s hits from their heyday, saying he was “not willing to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies” ( David in the photo of Pink Floyd in 1977)
The musician took to social media with the news and shared a glimpse of the iconic venue ahead of the release of his new album Luck and Strange.
Last JanuaryThe tensions between them showed no signs of improving after David supported his wife’s claims that Roger was ‘anti-Semitic’ and ‘a Putin apologist’.
Polly Samson, 61, made a series of inflammatory claims about the legendary musician, 80, apparently in response to an article he had shared about Israel.
She had posted a tweet telling Waters that he is “anti-Semitic to (his) rotten core” and added that he was a “Putin apologist and a liar, thief, hypocrite, tax evader, lip-syncer, misogynist, sick with envy.” “. megalomaniac’.
Bassist Waters has denounced the claims as “wildly inaccurate” and “inflammatory”, adding that he is “receiving advice on his position”.
Then, earlier this year, Rodger was his record label eventually dropped him months after he was accused of anti-Semitism for endorsing Hamas‘ October 7 attack on Israel.
German music rights firm BMG, which signed Waters in 2016, recently parted ways with the 80-year-old rock star following a series of controversies, including a series of incendiary comments he made about Israel.
David left Pink Floyd in 1985 after falling out with Roger Waters and their long feud continues to this day (Pink Floyd pictured in 1968)
Last January, tensions between the band showed no signs of improving after David backed his wife Polly Samson’s claims that Roger was “anti-Semitic” and “a Putin apologist.”
Then, earlier this year, Rodger was finally fired from his record label months after he was accused of anti-Semitism for endorsing the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel (Roger pictured on stage in 2023).
waters said Variety in November he had been “fired” from the company after relatively new CEO Thomas Coesfeld canceled the planned release of a newly recorded encore of a Pink Floyd album. Sources have now told the magazine that they have broken up.
BMG officials told DailyMail.com they were aware of the report but declined to comment.
The band’s former bassist was scheduled to release a new version of the 1973 album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, but the project was reassigned to UK-based band Cooking Vinyl.
It comes after he allegedly sang that his agent was a ‘f***ing Jew’ in an improvised song and appeared to dress like a Nazi at a concert in Berlin in May.
The claim about the song came from Rogers’ former producer Bob Ezrin in The Dark Side of Roger Waters, a documentary produced by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Ezrin, who has also worked with big names including Lou Reed, U2, Taylor Swift and Aerosmith, said he was “embarrassed” to admit he didn’t question the bassist’s song about Bryan Morrison.
He added: ‘It was my first inclination that there might be some anti-Semitism under the surface.
German music rights firm BMG, which signed Waters in 2016, recently parted ways with the 80-year-old rock star following a series of controversies, including a series of incendiary comments he made about Israel.
Waters told Variety in November that he had been “fired” from the company after relatively new CEO Thomas Coesfeld (pictured) canceled the planned release of a newly recorded encore of a Pink Floyd album.
“Now, Roger knew I’m Jewish, so I didn’t know if this was another one of those things he was doing, just to see if I’d react, or if I just didn’t even understand.” How offensive could that be to a Jewish person.
He is convinced that Waters does not really consider himself anti-Semitic despite the nature of his alleged comments.
Ezrin concluded: “I don’t think Roger sees himself as an anti-Semite, just as most people don’t see themselves as racist.
“But it walks like one, quacks like one, swims like one… so you know, from my point of view, it’s functionally a duck.”
Bryan Morrison, the alleged subject of Waters’ improvised song according to Erzin, died in 2008 at the age of 66 after spending two years in a coma following a fall from a horse.
The documentary also conveys claims that Waters wanted a giant floating pig at his concerts to be adorned with the Star of David and slogans that contained denigrating language about the Jewish people.