agonisingly so,” says Polly Samson, youthfully elegant at 62, intensely articulate, as she talks of David Gilmour, 78, Pink Floyd guitarist, rock legend, and her husband for the past 30 years.

Through all this, David Gilmour maintains a beatific bonhomie. He is a father of eight - four from his first marriage and four with Polly. His days are spent negotiating teething and homework.

David Crosby, Graham Nash, latter-day Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Jools Holland and others among the illustrious company. After Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, contributed to Floyd’s The Division ...

Years before Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters would say he came to “regret” one of the band’s most distinctive cuts, guitarist David Gilmour went so far as to refuse to sing it in the first ...

In 1986, David Gilmour bought an antique houseboat, The Astoria. The Pink Floyd co-frontman would then repurpose the vessel into a floating recording studio. The Astoria was built in 1911 for the ...

David Gilmour and Roger Waters trade off vocal responsibilities in the album version of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” to stunning effect. Waters draws the listener in with his creepy verse ...

Rattle That Lock is David Gilmours fourth solo album ... lyricist is Gilmours longterm writing partner Polly Samson and it is coproduced by David Gilmour and Roxy Musics Phil Manzanera This ...