Watch The Video For David Gilmour’s ‘Luck And Strange’ Ft. Richard Wright
David Gilmour is reunited with his old Pink Floyd colleague, late keyboard player Richard Wright, in the new video for the title track of Gilmour’s brand new studio album Luck And Strange. You can watch the video below.
Gilmour released the new album, his fifth solo album over-all and first for nine years, last week and Richard Wright features on electric piano and Hammond on the album’s title track, from sessions originally recorded in 2007 at a jam in the barn at Gilmour’s house.
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“I toured in 2006, and Rick asked if he could be in my band and I said ‘of course’,” Gilmour told Prog magazine. “And when we finished that tour, in the January, I got together that touring band and said, “come down to the house and we’ll jam for a week in the barn”. What was going through my addled brain I don’t know – it was fucking freezing in that barn.
“Anyway, the first jam we did on the Monday morning was the one that became that song – I added a chorus and middle-eight, rebuilt the stuff on top with different chords. There’s bits where Rick’s playing a Hammond lick and I’ve put guitars on since and I’m playing with him, bouncing off his keyboards and it is a bit weird, but I’m not fazed by that element of Rick being there at all at the moment. I just think: “ah, it’s Rick, it’s me, we’re playing”.”
As was predicted earlier this week, Luck And Strange has become the UK’s new Number One album. The record is becomes the third Gilmour solo album to top the UK charts, following 2006’s On An Island and 2015’s Rattle That Lock. The legendary musician has also scored six number one albums in the UK with Pink Floyd.
Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Gilmour responded to the news by saying, “I’d like to thank everyone who’s bought my new album, Luck And Strange, and helped to make it Number 1 in the Official Albums Chart.”
Prog magazine’s review said “As a fan, you always hope there’ll be more from your favourite artists, but, as the theme of this album explores, time doesn’t always work that way. Luck And Strange would stand as a fitting epitaph to his not inconsiderable talent. It’s a delight of an album.”
Earlier this week, Gilmour has shut down any suggestion that Pink Floyd might reunite to tour once more. In the interview with ITV News, Gilmour says that anyone hoping to see the prog rock legends sharing a stage again should “dream on”.
He made the comment after being asked by ITV News Arts Editor Nina Nannar, “What do you say to this perpetual yearning for Pink Floyd to get back together?”
“I mean, it’s not going to happen,” he continued. “There’s only three people left and we’re not talking and unlikely to. [Laughs] So it’s not going to happen.”
Gilmour recently announced two special rehearsal performances in Brighton offering fans an exclusive preview of his forthcoming live shows in Rome, London, Los Angeles, and New York, at the Brighton Centre on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21.
The Luck And Strange tour kicks off in Rome at the Circus Maximus on September 27 and also includes shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October, as well as further performances in Los Angeles and New York.
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