Legendary rock musician announces first solo UK show in eight years but says ... trends now
Former Pink Floyd star David Gilmour has announced his first solo UK show in eight years and will take to London's Royal Albert Hall for six nights in October.
The musician, 78, posted to social media with the news and shared a glimpse of the iconic venue ahead of the release of his new album Luck and Strange.
But fans of Pink Floyd will be left disappointed as David revealed he will only perform his new material and none of the rock band's hits from their heyday, saying he had an 'unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies'.
He told Uncut: '[Other decades] might be better represented. I mean, at least one from the Sixties. The one we’ve done in the past is 1967’s ‘Astronomy.’
David left Pink Floyd in 1985 after falling out with Roger Waters and their long-running feud continues to this day.
Former Pink Floyd star David Gilmour, 78, has announced his first solo UK show in eight years and will take to London's Royal Albert Hall for six nights in October (pictured 2019)
But fans of Pink Floyd will be left disappointed as David revealed he will only perform his new material and none of the rock band's hits from their heyday, saying he had an 'unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies' (David pictured in Pink Floyd in 1977)
The musician took to social media with the news and shared a glimpse of the iconic venue ahead of the release of his new album Luck and Strange
Last January tensions between them showed no signs of improving after David backed his wife's claims that Roger was 'antisemitic' and 'a Putin apologist'.
Polly Samson, 61, made a series of incendiary claims about legendary musician, 80, seemingly in response to an article he had shared concerning Israel.
She had posted a tweet telling Waters he is 'antisemitic to (his) rotten core' adding that he was a 'Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac'.
Bass guitarist Waters has denounced the claims as 'wildly inaccurate' and 'incendiary', adding that he is 'taking advice on his position'.
Then earlier this year Rodger was finally been dropped by his record label months after he was accused of anti-Semitism for backing Hamas' October 7 attack against Israel.
German music rights firm BMG, which signed Waters in 2016, recently parted ways with the 80-year-old rock star following a series of controversies including a slew of inflammatory remarks he made about
