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David Gilmour review – astonishing, goosebump-inducing solos

In between collaborating with Ice-T, selling the rights to the Pink Floyd name and promoting a new album, the veteran musician delivers a stream of unimpeachable classics

There have been shots fired at ex-bandmate Roger Waters (“I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin,” Gilmour remarked drily); a surprise appearance during his youngest offspring Romany’s set in a Brighton pub. Several visits to The Dark Side of the Moon are greeted by mini-ovations and an unexpected amount of air drumming Gilmour may not be prolific but he’s never lazy, and has long been attentive to the needs of other musicians, from the days when he tried to help ailing Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett start a solo career after being sacked by the band. A lightly folky version of Wish You Were Here is superb, and even lesser Pink Floyd songs such as Marooned and Fat Old Sun are delivered with a vehemence much less fragile than their earlier incarnations, all three guitarists playing off each other alongside the three-woman choir, keys and piano also filling out the sound.

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