David Gilmour on Songwriting, Inspiration and Getting Older
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David Gilmour is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Born on March 6, 1946, in Cambridge, England, Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in 1968, becoming an integral part of the band's classic lineup alongside Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and, earlier, Syd Barrett.
Gilmour's guitar work is highly acclaimed, and he is considered one of the greatest guitarists in the history of rock music. His contributions to Pink Floyd include iconic solos and compositions, particularly on albums like "The Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," "Animals," and "The Wall."
In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, David Gilmour has pursued a solo career, releasing several albums, including "David Gilmour" (1978), "About Face" (1984), and "On an Island" (2006). He is known for his soulful voice and melodic guitar playing.
David Gilmour played a crucial role in shaping the sound of Pink Floyd, and his musical influence extends beyond the band into the broader realm of rock music.
Pink Floyd was an English rock band formed in London in 1965. The band achieved worldwide fame for its progressive and psychedelic rock music, elaborate live shows, and thought-provoking lyrics. Pink Floyd is often considered one of the greatest and most influential bands in the history of rock music.
The founding members of Pink Floyd were Syd Barrett (vocals, lead guitar), Roger Waters (bass, vocals), Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals), Nick Mason (drums), and later, David Gilmour (lead guitar, vocals) joined the band. Barrett left the band in 1968 due to mental health issues, and Gilmour became a permanent member.
Pink Floyd gained commercial success with albums like "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" (1967), which was heavily influenced by Syd Barrett's psychedelic compositions. However, their most significant success came with the release of concept albums like "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975), "Animals" (1977), and "The Wall" (1979).
"The Dark Side of the Moon" is particularly iconic and is considered one of the best-selling albums of all time. Pink Floyd's music is characterized by complex compositions, atmospheric soundscapes, and philosophical lyrics. The band disbanded in the 1990s, but its legacy continues to endure, and Pink Floyd's albums remain popular and influential in the world of rock music.
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Dave Gilmour on.....
00:00 - Discord Within Pink Floyd
00:48 - Memories Of Syd Barrett
01:46 - Writing Shine On You Crazy Diamond
03:33 - Drawing Inspiration From Unusual Places
05:01 - Touring While Getting Older
05:34 - Would Pink Floyd Work Now?
06:02 - Finding Purpose After Fame
08:01 - Songwriting
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Dave Gilmour's best guitar solo? Thoughts and comments below!
I really love the live version of Fat Old Sun
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Comfortably numb, both studio record and live versions like pulse and live at pompeii are absolutely amazing.
@@burakag0a personal favourite for sure, in all its forms, live and recorded. Magic was made when he recorded that beauty 👌🏼
@@mikebutler1641a man of fine taste 👌🏼
the thing with pink floyd is... is that they were way ahead of their time. their music will always be relevant. no matter what year it is
Great answer, I hope you’re right and their music lives long into the future still 🎸
Roger that!
La musica de P.Floyd que es la de Gilmour..continuara vigente,viva(como dices tu SC) por los siglos de los siglos!!!!
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@@user-to5rk6yw5i 🔥 🎸
Very much agreed!! They are timeless…
People will taking about Pink Floyd in a hundred years or more. Thank you for the music David its a part of my life. The good times and the bad.
Well said 👏
Actually, badly said. Read it again.
@@DAP-mi7ck I shall forgive them the linguistic errors, for I am a merciful CZcamsr.
I don’t think they would work today.
People don’t have the patience for such slow-burning brilliance.
Most wouldn’t get past the intro to songs like Shine On You Crazy Diamond today.
They landed at the perfect time, when people would invest time in music, and were prepared to be challenged by music that didn’t deliver hooks every 20 seconds, and I believe the 1970s were the greatest years for classic rock.
I couldn’t possibly agree with you more. Algorithm’s and social media have destroyed attention spans, and great music along with it. I fear the glory days of great musical creativity are long gone.
@@MusicMatters_SC 100%, mate.
As a huge Floyd fan I unfortunately agree .
@@dannypacini9820 sad times
@@MusicMatters_SC This has already been proved by science. What the researchers found is that harmonic complexity has decreased (making music sound homogenous), timbral diversity has dropped exponentially after peaking in the 1960s (meaning modern music is less deep and rich), and loudness has increased (which means that volume is now favored over sound quality). Such a shame. There are probably only a couple of genres still producing complex and rich music, like metal and country where musicianship is still valued.
Dark side of the best moon is best prog rock album ever a Sgt pepper of its time !! Never get bored of listening too it got everything you could ask for in a album pure class 😎😎😎😎😎
I agree entirely 🎸 🔥
Their music is timeless!!
Correct 👍🏼
David Gilmour has trully amazing life. Beautiful music.
Some of the best ever recorded
I first discovered Pink Floyd in 1967 at Gorleston Floral Hall near Yarmouth and followed them every rear right up until Earls Court in 1994. My only regret is not making to live Aid. It's been one hell of a beautiful journey. Love and thanks guys!
Bet you had some great times 🎸 🔥
“If The Doors or John Lennon were getting started now, the industry wouldn’t sign them in a million years”
That was a 1986 lyric from Jello Biafra and unfortunately it still rings true today. All we can do is be thankful and feel fortunate, those of us who were there from the get-go, that they were even here at all.
Well said, and I agree. I’m too young to have been around at their pinnacle, but I’m glad they made records that will last long beyond me
hear, hear.
I'm very confident that if Dark Side came out today, it would be a #1 smash hit success
My adored wife Moby loved Shine on You Crazy Diamond, so I had it played when she was brought into the crematorium. As she was laid down, the wonderful four notes rang out…
Ah man, heartbreaking! Hope hearing them brings back some memories from the good times too 👍🏼
One of a kind. A genre all their own.
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If Pink Floyd doesn’t work for any era, all one can do if feel sorry for them. They know not what they’ve missed. Cool video.
Agreed, sadly I fear the era of great original music is very much behind us now
I find it settling that David FINALLY, humbly admits that there was a disconnect and absence of commitment towards the end , and how frustrating that was to them all but most of all to Roger. In order to move forward it’s important to admit the facts of the day/situation. Good for you David , I’m sure you deep down miss those days of deep comradeship you all once had…..
Very true
I've heard that interview in full, and he was talking about recording Wish You Were Here (a long time before they reached "the end"). The interview itself is over 10 years old, maybe 20, so not really anything new.
@@bertjilk3456 right….but my point is still valid…a lot of hardcore fans will claim the band was on slide down after darkside ….
David was referring to the period of recording WYWH, that the other 3 were not pulling their weight and how frustrating that was for Roger
I began listening to PF in the early 90s. Still enjoying the music.
It’s very moreish
Pink Floyd's music is timeless but without Rick Wright it's not Pink Floyd. Can you imagine Floyd's music in the Sphere in LA?
Ah man I never thought of that! What an experience that would be
I can't imagine it ... but only because the Sphere is in Las Vegas. LOL
@@johnsimion2893 Doh!! 🫣🤣
@@johnsimion2893 😁
Pink Floyd did 4 albums with Rick not really involved.
Would still NLOW EVERYONE AWAY. BRILLIANT SONG WRITERS AND MUSIC MASTERS❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A world tour would be epic!
Yeah we can but hope for that one 🤞🏻
Always on top
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I can do recognizable version of those magical notes and progression on my Les Paul, but absolutely evocative on any electric guitar, and not difficult at all to learn, even for a beginner.
Beauty in its simplicity
The titles that appear in the video don’t seem to correspond to what he then says. Several times, he’s obviously talking about a particular album or track, but we can only guess which one because there’s no context. Kind of disjointed. Oh well.
Just listened to Animals. Yep, still works. All good.
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David and Roger you should get together one more time. Give your music to the world. Time on earth is not endless.
We live in hope
Hell yeah!
Preach!! 👏
Roger and David are both musical geniuses. Just like Lennon and McCarthy. Producer's have zero control over their creative process.
It’s not zero, though I doubt it would be much control. Still, would their genius be appreciated by a modern audience?
Can't believe this McCarthy guy is still getting away with calling himself a Beatle!!
@@davidmurray2539 🤭
Yes they would work now without a doubt. Look at the reaction of people on here who hear Comfortably Numb for the first time, they are astounded as was I when I first heard it in 1979. I consider myself very fortunate to be in my teens in the 70s and be able to go and see the album tours. Bloody good times.
A good time to be a teenager 👌🏼 🎸
Music has changed so much in the past 50 years alone. (Not for the best in my opinion) but goodness... Can you all imagine how popular music in 2045 going to be like?
Im so intrigued by that thought, but also terrified of it!
What will most music be like when its 2050 and 2000 was a half century ago!?
It’s an interesting point. I think pop music in 2050 will likely be whatever our robot overlords want it to be.
Of course they would and the Will! ❤
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I use Pink Floyd songs to teach literary concepts and poetry to 7th and 8th graders. The students actually love their music. I think that Pink Floyd would not only work today, but that they are necessary today to preserve music written to evoke emotion and thought.
That’s really interesting! Great use of their lyrics 👍🏼
Sir Gilmour is GOD plain and simple, he so humble and honest. More importantly he plays form the heart and makes that bloody guitar SING.
He really does
Anyone know what two songs he's talking about in the last chapter? (8:00) I've heard that Gilmour won the argument about some of the Final Cut tracks not quite making it for The Wall, but I'm curious which songs Gilmour wanted for an album that were ultimately scrapped or pushed to another release
He's referring to 'Raving and Drooling' and 'You Gotta Be Crazy' that ended up being recorded on Animals as 'Sheep' and 'Dogs'.
@@alexcanduci3824 fab!
What was the ambient background music that was being played very quietly through this video?
Its a royalty free ambient track from CZcams’s audio library 👍🏼
That’s brilliant! Let’s stay in touch :)
'Would it work now?' or 'Would they sign them now?' is pointless, honestly ;) More than half a century later we're still all here celebrating them, their music is still everywhere, the surviving members are still publishing and touring. A better question would be: would anyone of the current Top 40 still be relevant 50 years from now? ;)
Shine on!
Unbelievable! Reach out to me.
comfortably numb is obviously a classic but what about dogs ? never seems to get a mention but also a classic
Yeah that’s a fair point. You could almost say it’s an UNDER-DOGS. I’m literally a genius.
Is this a new interview?
Silly to think anything other than Pink Floyd is Timeless....
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This is the type of swooning opinion that leads me to believe Pink Floyd fans also believe that the last 50 years of McCartney muzak constitutes the work of genius in the same vein as Beethoven!! Be it Ludwig van,
Pink Floyd or Macca, none of it is rock music.
It's not repetitive enough like most of today's pop music is on Spotify and the like.
You’re not wrong
Complex things like progressive rock worked in the 70s for many people and today only for a small audience.
This is sadly true, hopefully it comes back around again
@@MusicMatters_SC Sorry, when people only listen to 20s reels, they are not able to enjoy a 20min Prog-Epic!🙄
@@alancampbell6236 😞
People get older music only grows, like a tree.
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It's David Gilmour.
Fixed!
ID ALWAYS PREFER PINK FLOYD OR CLASSIC ROCK IN GENERAL OVER ANY MODERN MUSIC
Couldn’t agree with you more 👏
Be kinda odd with half of the band playing and Roger over there just miming his little heart out with an unplugged bass.
😂 worth the ticket price for that alone lol
Roger must be laughing all the way to the bank. Tens of millions banked on touring over the last 20 years, all for standing on stage not playing anything and doing it all under the premise of making the world a better place 😂
Lovely that he gets richer and richer each time of course.
@@kjek1 the cynic in me tends to agree lol
@@MusicMatters_SC it’s not cyclical mate, it’s true. I have so much respect for Waters as a songwriter, but he’s a total fraud as a performer and as a political figure. Defrauds fans by selling a live show then lip syncing his arse off, promotes socialist and anti capitalist messages yet lives it up like a fat cat capitalist in the Hamptons in New York. He’s the ultimate champagne socialist.
He also suffers from serious delusions of grandeur with regards to the importance and influence he thinks his own opinion has.
I know Roger definitely lip syncs for certain songs the past 10 years. Especially another brick for some reason. But he really does sing 85+ percent of his songs that he plays to this day.
I do remember being really pissed though for specifically another brick in the wall part 2 when I saw him in 2017 because he didn't try to hide it and straight up used the voice track from Roger Waters The Wall DVD. At my show for that song.
I honestly doubt most of the great bands and musicians of the past would work nowadays. Hell, they couldnt even get on the Voice. Could you imagine Roger Waters , Donald Fagen , even David Bowie trying out for the voice. They'd likely never get past the 1st audition. Music isnt art anymore, its a business.
Ha, now there’s a reality show in the making! Actual musicians trying out for the soulless, corporate ‘talent’ machine. But yes I fear the days of actual creativity within the music business are very much behind us now.
True but there's still a longing out there for what a lot of people refer to as "good music." A group of musicians from Philadelphia, The War On Drugs, are staunchly representative of all the best music, and an aura, from the past yet even they have a tenuous five finger hold in a crevice on a steep rock cliff. One group. Clearly not an indicator of a new dawn for lovers of "good music".
@@davidmurray2539 the night is darkest before the dawn
Everything is a business now, not only music.
No, he's already had his wife write PF songs. You could put all PF lyrics into a DB and spit out the last one.
Roger wrote for PF period.
I love Pink Floyd they are the greatest band ever, but to me Pink Floyd were finished as a band in 1985 when they split up, that’s why I have not followed them since. Queen did the same when they lost their front man Freddie Mercury, that never worked either, to me Queen were finished towards the end of 1991 when Freddie passed away.
Yeah that’s a legitimate viewpoint. Things just never quite seem the same afterwards….
Would Pink Floyd work in 2023? You're having a laugh. The only reason they wouldn't work is because the so-called music producer's would not allow them to because they would embarress them and totally destroy them like they have, even now.
Music isn’t what it used to be sadly
@@geetarman you’re completely right. The internet made music a commodity rather than a product and thus practically overnight killed selling music as a viable business model for musicians. I recorded and released an album during the pandemic as a vanity project and even at that minuscule level of interaction with the music industry I was staggered at how saturated the market is and how little money is paid to musicians. I don’t see a way back to the music industry model that created great bands and musicians, so at the risk of sounding old, the good old days are long gone.
@@geetarman 👍🏼
Have you seen Tame Impala??? Modern day Pink Floyd.....
@@Fitzfish 🎸 🔥
Love the records and the shows but at the end of the day it was very short lived in terms creativity by all…even Rodger …who’s problem ultimately was he didn’t sound like Floyd when writing or perf performing solo…they needed the whole package to progress any further….and they just never really got on the same page after Dark Side of the Moon…yes they made a couple of really good records following that…but as Gilmore points out…no one else in the band was really engaged besides Roger at that point….sad but true
No. Because the record companies have no patience.
Agreed. And arguably neither do audiences anymore.
if you play dark side in 5023 people will think it was released in 5022
Ha true
I think with what we found out during Covid what was going on in the schools that another brick in the wall is incredibly relevant today. Kids being indoctrinated right before our eyes. Hey, teacher, leave our kids alone. Never meant more at any time.
You’re dead right
If Pink Floyd organised a world tour tomorrow it would be a sell out.
You’re not wrong. And I’d be front row haha 👌🏼
It would be a sad spectacle with two or three clapped out old men who can't stand each other. They don't need the money or the adulation.
@@MisterTMH but a spectacle nonetheless
@@MisterTMH Sadly, very true and Gilmour has lost his voice 😪
An embarrassing spectacle.@@MusicMatters_SC
Freekin commercials.....I'm starting to hate youtube
Haha they help me feed my kids though!! I salute you for enduring them on their behalf good sir 👍🏼
Roger Waters was the songwriting genius behind a vast majority of Floyd's work. So, as He left the band 30 years ago, the answer is no.
But if he came back…..
Forget it. The moments of their best work have past. They are 80 year old men now or they are dead.. You have the classic records. That is more than enough.
@@MisterTMH 😞
Pink floyd works forever.
Unlike todays garbage music.
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Of course not you need Rick Wright to complete the picture plus Rodger Waters wouldn’t do it because he’s an arrogant pratt even if he is a brilliant musician
I meant more if the music released then was released now. But you make a valid point 👌🏼
Rodger Waters, David Gilmore....Why do people struggle to spell Pink Floyd's band members' names properly?
Roger Waters is tone deaf and could not play through a Charlie Parker chart so that is the end of that " Brilliant Musician" hog wash.
Noooooo…..
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I don't think today's kids are smart enough to understand the music of Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, etc. well maybe some would.
I think it’s more to do with attention span than intelligence. Short form content is largely to blame.
Click bait
Why? 🤔
Music is mostly commercial crap
No real creativity or originality.
So NO it wouldn’t work!!!
Agreed, no room for real creativity now
It works for me.
@@KMarik 👌🏼
I am producing a retrospective film on Roger Waters. Would musi c matters like to make any comments on the Floyd and Waters legacy.
Kind regards
Barry
I’ll have a think!
@MusicMatters_SC no problem. Thanks for the reply
@@FloydGuy1980 🎸 🔥
Thats a hell no.... there simply isnt the necessary attention span
Id say 90 percenf of young listeners have never heard music with actual structure and nuance in its compositio, there is no tension or anticipation in modern music, there is a constantly narrowing sonic footprint nowadays, pop music is intentionally shrill and devoid of musicality, modern pop is music for stupid people now
you’ll get nothing but 100% agreement from me. These are dark musical times.
Nice guy
Is he entitled to the Pink Floyd mantle?
Absolutely not!
Shots fired hehe
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LEGALLY ..YES!!!! Of course the proof of which 'Pink Floyd' people went out to see from 1988-1994 is poor old Roger's whining about being on tour at the same time as Gilmour/Wright/Mason or PINK FLOYD, with them selling out large stadiums and him getting 3 people & a dog to his shows.
Waters was a great lyricist and ideas man but when it came to performance of what he wrote it was Gilmour/Wright's voices and Gilmour's guitar with "anyone can play bass", although Guy Pratt is a better bass player.
Presley never wrote a song, Geezer Butler was the main lyricist for Black Sabbath but who cared who wrote Presley songs and it was Ozzy & Iommi that got all the attention in Sabbath.
The Waters "devotees" never get it
@@thefuturefactory56 can’t really argue with it, well said!
No.. It's lift music
Because it lifts you into a different mindset. Never thought of it like that!
If people think Taylor Swift is something special no Pink Floyd wouldn’t work today. If people have that bad of taste in music as thinking her albums are good they wouldn’t get it. I mean how many songs can you write about ex-boyfriends.
Sorry have to vehemently disagree there. As someone who is a prog rocker, a heavy rocker, who is so greatful I grew up in the 70's as a teen. First 3 concerts were Hawkwind, Wishbone Ash and Argent. I was raised on Deep Purple, Led Zep, Black Sabbath. I saw Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Yes and Rush a couple of times. Never managed to see Floyd sadly, or Genesis for that matter, but I still loved the music and waited slavishly for every album to buy.But I didn't let my rock music roots blind me to other music. For instance the Carpenters back then were dismissed by myself and my mates as "Dad" music the sort of stuff he'd listen to on Radio 2, it is now only decades later that I realise how good that music is and how great a singer Karen Carpenter was, despite her mental troubles. I still love Floyd and all the music then now but I have widened it to include groups such as Marillion, Nightwish, Within Temptation and The Pretty Reckless. I also found myself listening to Taylor Swift, probably from the TV concert she did with Def Leppard back in 2008. She might lyrics and songs in a way that is completely alien to you but it does not make her music any less relevant. You have obviously never actually listened to her either, to say "how many songs can you write about ex-boyfriends" sums it up perfectly. There AREN'T that many actually. I think you would be very, very surprised at the number of folks that do actually listen to both rock music and Taylor Swift in the same way that I do. Some would say "what's a pensioner listening to Taylor Swift for?" I would answer "why the fuck not! we can live in the present and the past and enjoy each for what it offers and the memories".
The music industry has changed drastically since Pink Floyd’s day, perhaps because of changing musical tastes or perhaps due to corporate machines that dictate musical taste through algorithms. Maybe both! But yes, Taylor’s ex made her a lot of money ha.
You’re right on one aspect I haven’t listened to her music. Especially since her fan base is between the ages of 8-16. You see it as expanding your mind and opening up to different music. I see it as selling out to bubble gum sugar coated commercialized crap. By the way I like thousands of artists from The Beatles to Prince to Yes to Sade to Run DMC to Black Sabbath to Benny Goodman to Jack White. I like my music with less high school drama Taylor seems to bring to it. Things like Def leopard and Swift concert are just a contrived commercialization of what used to be good music. Brought to you by the same kind of folks that sell you hamburgers and the latest superhero movie.
@@donwarnick1089 If you think her audience are 8-16 year old girls then you are very deluded and merely buying into what ever mainstream media says. She has amongst her audience not only 8-16 year females but males also as well as their parents and grandparents who first started going to see her 18 years ago. btw the Def Leppard show was for CMT, and is used as a way openning up Country Music listeners ideas to other forms of music. The trouble is YOU let your eyes do the listening not your ears. You may have once let your ears listened but are now so blinded and prejudiced by what others say that you have just become an echo chamber. Is she my favourite artiste, no, not by a long way, but we cannot forever live in the past. We are getting old, hold onto your memories sure, I do, but embrace new things, once you have listened to them properly. Music is like food, unless you've tasted it you don't know if you like it: you might not in which case just quietly move along. There's plenty of music old and new that I don't like but you wo'nt find me bitching about it here.
@@clansome Sounds like a lot of words to justify listening to sugar coated commercialized pop. If you actually read what I wrote you’d see my musical tastes are from one end of the spectrum to the other I just don’t happen to like her mish mash school girl country pop so called rock she’s spewing.
As timeless as sleeping pills.. 💤💤💤
Heyyyyyyyy
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Who cares after the Syd Barrett era? Thank God for The Sex Pistols, Jam and Clash, Joy Division, Psychedelic Furs et al for re-injecting an energy and setting free a genre marked by bloatedness and pretention in the years leading up to the second British music invasion, late seventies.
Please, not another David Gilmour video.
I hope you’re joking? I made this for you!!
Sorry for you if you are incapable of looking the other way.
@@FuzzyJohn 👌🏼 👌🏼
No one asked you to watch it ……I’m 75 I’ve been with the from the beginning …….if modern music suits you don’t bother watching !
@@martinbirch632 👏
Yes, Pink Floyd would work in 2023/24. The problem is Waters can’t keep his mouth shut & Gilmour is a vindictive bastard. In their dotage you’d thing they’d both grow up, but then again they were both more mature in their 20s.
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Music only existed while Pink floyd was a group/band. neither, except Waters, were able to make really good music after the breakup. Gilmore's solo works are, in my opinion, too sterile and without soul. Wright and Mason's solo workds are so bad, that I will not even describe them in this context.
I agree entirely. When writing together they were far greater than the sum of their parts. Had the two never met, neither would have written anything close to what we got with Pink Floyd. Needless to say I’m grateful they bumped into each other.
“The breakup of Lennon McCartney dilemma .”
@@videogeekin it’s a common theme that appears in many bands
I think the work after Roger left was good, very good. But it wasn't near what Dark Side and The Wall was. They didn't get that one hit from it. They did with Roger.
@@joshcollville4865 valid point
Hey! That’s awesome! Shall we be friends?