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Polly Samson on photographing life with husband David Gilmour: ‘I saw it in my mind’s eye first’

INTERVIEW: The photographer and author is showing her work at an exhibition in London. She describes her creative process, her photography heroes and how her and husband David Gilmour’s home, surrounded by water meadows, inspires her

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Pink Floyd collaborator Polly Samson, wife and creative partner of David Gilmour, has a London photo exhibition featuring her documentation of the creation, recording and live performance of Gilmour's Luck and Strange album

Polly Samson - Between This Breath and Then is at the Leica Gallery London

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Leica Gallery London presents ‘Between This Breath and Then’ exhibition by writer and photographer Polly Samson

Leica Gallery London presents “Between This Breath and Then,” a new exhibition by writer and photographer Polly Samson

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“The last thing you want is people just deferring to you”: He may have been around for nearly 60 years, but David Gilmour’s return to form was inevitable. Here’s why

While the ex Pink Floyd leader is a world-class guitarist and vocalist, his attitude to family, social issues and collaborations make him even bigger than that

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“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the chance of a Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters

The powerhouse Gilmour–Waters partnership is no more – and Floyd fans will most likely never experience it again

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‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

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“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour shuts door on idea of ever performing with Roger Waters again

Plus his wife Polly Samson reveals why she condemned Waters as “anti-Semitic” on X

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'There is no possible way': David Gilmour rules out Roger Waters reunion

David Gilmour says he will never perform with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters again, stating: "There is no possible way that I would do that."

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Pink Floyd star David Gilmour says ‘no possible way’ for Roger Waters reunion

Former bandmates are embroiled in one of music’s most acrimonious feuds

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“I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write

The guitarist’s wife and long-term creative partner helped him put a full-stop on The Endless River, before the couple brought his 2015 album Rattle That Lock to fruition

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“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange

Collaboration, family, mortality and that stridently emotive guitar work - it's all there on David Gilmour's sixth studio album Luck And Strange

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David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album

David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October

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“It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell

Pink Floyd explored the theme of communication on 1994 album The Division Bell – despite their infamous communication issues

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"I did start by saying: 'Do we need another guitar solo here?'" David Gilmour on boomer fortune and the making of Luck And Strange

For Luck And Strange David Gilmour assembled a team that produced "the best album I've made since The Dark Side Of The Moon"

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Guitar World

“I've not got a huge history with Gibson, but this one I bought to have a different tone”: From a forensic Black Strat replica to a Gibson that caught his ear and a ‘90s Zoom unit, here's everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit

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“The Stratocaster is a clearer signal… the person who’s playing it is more recognizable on a Strat than on a Les Paul”: David Gilmour on breaking free from his past, the guitars he couldn’t face selling and why one Black Strat is as good as another

Luck and Strange, Gilmour’s first solo album in nine years, came together in a barn, features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a rotating cast of vintage guitars, and a producer who challenged him to take his sound to new places

Guitar World

“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

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David Gilmour will never perform with Roger Waters again

David Gilmour has dashed any remaining hopes of a Pink Floyd reunion by declaring he will never perform with Roger Waters again because he can't stand his political opinions.

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The Independent UK

Pink Floyd ‘sell music rights’ for a colossal amount

Rock group are said to have handed over their name-and-likeness rights for reported deal

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A Pink Floyd reunion with Roger Waters? An unequivocal ‘no’, says David Gilmour

Guitarist says he’s ‘never had so much fun’ working on an album as with his new solo record, ‘Luck and Strange’

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David Gilmour and Polly Samson on death, drugs and married life after Pink Floyd

The guitarist and his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, talk to Geordie Greig about collaborating on his new album, the secret of their lasting love, their fears about mortality, and why there will never be a Floyd reunion with Roger Waters

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"Our heyday was ninety-five per cent musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter": David Gilmour on the past, the present and the future of Pink Floyd

David Gilmour on Rattle That Lock, Endless River, and 50 years of Pink Floyd

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Watch the video for David Gilmour's brand new single The Pipers Call

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

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"It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright features on David Gilmour's Luck And Strange

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A new David Gilmour album is expected to be released in 2024

David Gilmour's wife Polly Samson has posted photos of him working in the studio with an array of musicians

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