In June 2019, David raised $21.5m from the Christie's sale of more than 120 of his instruments and artefacts. He gave the proceeds to
ClientEarth, a charity which uses the power of the law to protect the planet and its people.
"The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face," said David. "I hope that the sale of these guitars
will help ClientEarth in their actions to use the law to bring about real change. We need a civilised world that goes on for all our
grandchildren and beyond, in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung."
For more information on ClientEarth, their work and how you can help, please visit
clientearth.org.
Monday 27th February 2023 A Great Day For Freedom
Friday marked one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Our thoughts are with the brave and resilient people of Ukraine, coping as best
they can with the awful situation.
A Great Day For Freedom is the B-side from the Pink Floyd single, Hey Hey Rise Up. Taken from a PULSE rehearsal during
Pink Floyd's two-week run at Earls Court, London, in 1994, the recording, using the original drums and bass by Nick and David, has
keyboards by Rick and backing vocals by Claudia, Sam and Durga. New piano, Prophet 5 synthesiser and Hammond are played by David, as
on the original demo.
Stream / Download Hey Hey Rise Uphere.
Get Hey Hey Rise Up CD, 7" and merchandise here.
Friday 24th February 2023
Today marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Our thoughts are with the brave and resilient people of Ukraine, coping as best
they can with the awful situation. We are taking the opportunity to revisit Hey Hey Rise Up today; all proceeds from the sale
of the single, and the associated merchandise, goes to help those in need in Ukraine. The single, recorded on 30th March 2022 with
Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox, has so far raised over £500,000 to help alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
David Gilmour and Nick Mason contributed to the amount raised so far, which is being distributed to the following humanitarian charities,
who accept donations directly as well:
Hospitallers
A Ukrainian voluntary organization of paramedics.
Kharpp
A grassroots initiative that has grown out of the volunteers' time on the Polish-Ukrainian
border, helping refugees with their immediate needs in Ukraine and as they arrive in Poland.
Vostok SOS
Provision of assistance in the search for housing for temporary displaced persons, the logistics of safe departure from the conflict
zone, the search, release, and rehabilitation of kidnap victims.
Livyj Bereh Donate:linktr.ee/livyj_bereh
A volunteer group providing medicines, food, and assistance with the reconstruction of houses and schools in remote and often
disadvantaged communities affected by the war.
Kyiv Volunteer
The charity emerged as a food-community response to the war in the country and is currently engaged in providing aid and helping feed
civilians.
The charity also has an initiative to rebuild the bridge between children. "Kids for kids" is a project that will allow kids who are now
far from the war to put their peace and care in a box and send it to children in Ukraine.
You can also stream / buy Hey Hey Rise Up and purchase fundraising merchandise via
https://linktr.ee/pinkfloyd.
Friday 23rd December 2022 Hey Hey Rise Up Update
Pink Floyd would like to thank everyone who has supported Hey Hey Rise Up. The single, recorded on 30th March with Andriy Khlyvnyuk
of the Ukrainian band Boombox, has so far raised over £450,000 to help alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
Stream / Download Hey Hey Rise Uphere.
Get Hey Hey Rise Up CD, 7" and merchandise here.
David Gilmour and Nick Mason have added £50,000 to make this up to £500,000 which will be distributed to the following humanitarian
charities. Let's see what else we can do this winter. There are links and information here and it would be great if you feel able to
contribute to any of these charities directly.
Season's Greetings to you all and Slava Ukraini.
Hospitallers
Hospitallers is a Ukrainian voluntary organization of paramedics. Its members are doctors and people of various professions and ages
who volunteered to join the first aid squad and deliver life-saving support to all in need.
Kharpp
The Kharkiv and Przemysl Project (KHARPP) is a grassroots initiative that has grown out of the volunteers' time on the Polish-Ukrainian
border, helping refugees with their immediate needs in Ukraine and as they arrive in Poland.
Vostok SOS
Provision of assistance in the search for housing for temporary displaced persons, the logistics of safe departure from the conflict
zone, the search, release, and rehabilitation of kidnap victims. They also collect and distribute humanitarian aid for displaced
persons in Kyiv, as well as delivering humanitarian goods to front-line settlements and providing psychological assistance.
Livyj Bereh Donate:linktr.ee/livyj_bereh
A volunteer group providing medicines, food, and assistance with the reconstruction of houses and schools in remote and often
disadvantaged communities affected by the war.
Kyiv Volunteer
The charity emerged as a food-community response to the war in the country and is currently engaged in providing aid and helping feed
civilians. They feed about 13,000 people every day.
The charity also has an initiative to rebuild the bridge between children. "Kids for kids" is a project that will allow kids who are now
far from the war to put their peace and care in a box and send it to children in Ukraine.
Wednesday 31st August 2022 Comfortably Numb voted Greatest Guitar Solo of All Time
Comfortably Numb has been voted the Greatest Guitar Solo of All Time by listeners to Planet Rock radio
in a new poll.
Thousands of votes were cast for the poll, which was an open vote – meaning that any rock song in recorded history was eligible to be included
in the countdown.
Once the votes had been counted, David Gilmour's solo for the band's 1979 track Comfortably Numb was named the Greatest Of All Time.
Monday 18th July 2022 A Tweet from ClientEarth
BREAKING: We won our case against the UK gov's inadequate net zero strategy!
On the hottest day on record in the UK, the High Court has ruled that the government's Net Zero Strategy breaches the Climate Change Act.
This is a landmark victory.
Sunday 15th May 2022
Pink Floyd invites you to join us in our support of the people of Ukraine with a collection featuring art created for Ukraine. The
Sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine painted by Cuban artist Yosan Leon, in direct reference to the seeds given to Russian
soldiers so that when they are gone flowers will grow. The Kherson Defenders painting by Ukrainian artist Sana Shahmuradova. The
painting, that was part of the Hey Hey Rise Up music video was "inspired by a civilian from [Russian-occupied] Kherson who
jumped on a Russian tank with a Ukrainian flag".
Pink Floyd will donate all net proceeds to Ukraine Humanitarian relief along with proceeds from their April 8th release of
Hey Hey Rise Up with David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on
keyboards, all accompanying an extraordinary vocal by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox.
Pink Floyd
are releasing a new single in support of the people of Ukraine entitled Hey Hey Rise Up. The single will be available on all streaming and download platforms from midnight tonight.
This is the first new original music that they have recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell.
The track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards and features an
extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.
The track, recorded last Wednesday (30th March), uses Andriy's vocals taken from his Instagram post of
him singing in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square. The song itself, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, is a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first
world war which has been taken up across the world over the past month in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. The title of the Pink Floyd track is taken
from the last line of the song which translates as 'Hey Hey Rise up and rejoice'. The song's opening choral parts are by Ukrainian VERYOVKA Folk Song
and Dance Ensemble.
David, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren says: "We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile
act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers".
He explains how he came to know Andriy and his band Boombox. "In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre,
whose members have been imprisoned. Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band, Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set,
but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band backed me for my set – we played Wish You Were Here for Andriy that
night. Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense.
Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence
of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music."
While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a mortar
shrapnel injury. "I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together
in person in the future."
Speaking about the track David says, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities and raise
morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and, in that way, show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to
invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become".
The video for Hey Hey Rise Up was filmed by acclaimed director Mat Whitecross and shot on the same day as the track was recorded. David
Gilmour: "We recorded the track and video in our barn where we did all our Von Trapped Family live streams during lockdown. It's the same room that
we did the 'Barn Jams' in with Rick Wright back in 2007. Janina Pedan made the set in a day and we had Andriy singing on the screen while we played,
so the four of us had a vocalist, albeit not one who was physically present with us".
The artwork for the track features a painting of the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower, by the Cuban artist, Yosan Leon. The cover of the
single is a direct reference to the woman who was seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and telling them to carry them
in their pockets so that when they die, sunflowers will grow.
All proceeds will go towards Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
Friday 11th March 2022
To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of
David Gilmour's solo recordings are being removed from all digital music providers in Russia and Belarus from today.
Wednesday 28th July 2021
Missing Rick on his birthday.
Here's the birth of Marooned from our Pink Floyd sessions of January 1993. It was originally known as 'Cosmic 13'. Just Rick
with me, Nick and Guy jamming straight to a stereo DAT machine at Britannia Row.
For me, a magical moment.
Tuesday 27th July 2021 SongWriter: Polly Samson + David Gilmour
Polly reads an excerpt from A Theatre for Dreamers and David talks about the process of finding inspiration for new music he wrote
for the audiobook.
David and Polly chart their collaboration from The Division Bell through Polly's new audiobook A Theatre for Dreamers,
and discuss the difficulties surrounding an upcoming Animals reissue.
A very happy birthday to Polly Samson, best-selling author and lyricist for Pink Floyd and David Gilmour.
Here are Polly and David in Olympic Studios during The Division Bell sessions in 1993.
Wednesday 14th April 2021 Tonight on ITV
David and Polly were interviewed today about the Von Trappeds and A Theatre for Dreamers for tonight's
ITV News at Ten on the eve of the paperback's release.
Friday 19th March 2021 David Gilmour CD available with Polly Samson paperback
Polly Samson's bestselling novel, which was a 2020 book of the year in The Times and Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and Spectator, will
be published in paperback by Bloomsbury on April 15th 2021.
Those pre-ordering the paperback from Rough Trade can currently also
get an exclusive limited edition David Gilmour bonus CD, featuring music inspired by the book. The four tracks include Yes, I Have Ghosts which was
written by Polly and David, and performed by David and the couple's daughter Romany. It also features three instrumentals originally
by David for the audiobook version of A Theatre for Dreamers.
CD Track Listing
1. Yes, I Have Ghosts
2. Tell The Truth
3. Astral Dust
4. Kokineli
Friday 19th March 2021
It is with great regret that due to the ongoing pandemic, the dates for A Theatre for Dreamers – An evening of words and music with
Samson and David Gilmour, due to take place in June, have been cancelled.
We ask that ticket holders do NOT contact the box offices and wait to be contacted by their respective venue's box office team.
Manchester RCNM – Friday 25th June
Birmingham Town Hall – Saturday 26th June
London Westminster Central Hall – Monday 28th June
For details on refunds (including Terms and Conditions), please click here.
Wednesday 17th March 2021 The Lyrics of Syd Barrett Published
Pink Floyd
co-founder Syd Barrett's influence was profound and long-lasting, despite tenure with the band lasting a mere three years. If his guitar gave the
band a distinctive hallucinatory sound, his often obscure and surreal lyrics were perhaps even more intoxicating.
Perhaps surprisingly, up until now Syd's lyrics were never officially annotated, but that omission has been rectified with the publication last
month of The Lyrics of Syd Barrett by Omnibus Press. This first authorised collection represents the most definitive versions possible,
after much study and input from David Gilmour and Syd biographer Rob Chapman, involving in some works the auditioning of isolated vocals from
the original master tape recordings.
Compiled in collaboration with the Syd Barrett estate, the book includes a foreword from former Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner and a comprehensive
introduction by biographer Rob Chapman. Accompanying the lyrics to all 52 songs written for Pink Floyd and Syd's subsequent solo career are rare
photos and artwork, making The Lyrics of Syd Barrett a beautifully illustrated insight into one of rock music's most imaginative and searing minds.
Wednesday 10th March 2021 Pink Floyd Live at Knebworth 1990
Pink
Floyd Live at Knebworth 1990 will be released for the first time on CD, double vinyl and digital platforms on Friday 30th April 2021.
The concert was part of the star-studded 1990 Silver Clef Winners performance at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, headlined by Pink Floyd.
The monumentous Knebworth concert saw Pink Floyd topping the all-star bill that included Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Genesis, Phil Collins,
Mark Knopfler, Robert Plant (with Jimmy Page), Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, and Tears For Fears. Around 120,000 music fans saw these giants of rock
appear on the hallowed stage of Knebworth, all in aid of the Nordoff Robbins charity, profits from which went towards setting up the BRIT School.
The concert was broadcast globally on MTV.
Pink Floyd – David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright – were joined on stage by members of their touring band including Guy Pratt,
Jon Carin, Tim Renwick, and Gary Wallis. Backing vocals came from Durga McBroom, Sam Brown and her mother Vicki, and (original The Great Gig in
the Sky vocalist) Clare Torry. Pink Floyd also welcomed guest musicians including sax player Candy Dulfer and keyboard player and composer Michael
Kamen.
David Gilmour and Andy Jackson have remixed the audio from this iconic concert featuring all seven tracks performed on the day, and the album
features new artwork shot by Floyd collaborator Aubrey 'Po' Powell of Hipgnosis and designed by Peter Curzon of StormStudios.
Thursday 14th January 2021 Join The Von Trapped Family Tonight
David and Polly are hosting another Von Trapped family live stream tonight on Facebook to celebrate the North American
release of Charlie Gilmour's memoir, Featherhood.
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