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David Gilmour: ‘The rich and powerful have siphoned off the majority of music industry money’


As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush – and reconciliation with Roger Waters

The Division Bell is my favourite Pink Floyd LP and the song High Hopes felt like a full stop for the band. I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro [president of Venezuela]. There’s a song on the album called A Single Spark – Polly’s words, my feelings – that comes from a line on the first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s book Speak, Memory, and that says it all.

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