ROCK CALENDAR: may 25, 1978 David Gilmour released a solo album

David – one of the musicians of Pink Floyd, the four guys who created the greatest creation of modern music – the album "The Dark Side of the Moon". David put a lot of work into this album – guitarist, singer, author of many songs... And there was still a departed Sid Barrett, from which it all began...When I first heard this music, it seemed to me a genius, as Lenin would say - "Amazing, inhuman music!"But Lenin ends his musical speech with sadistic words – "But on the heads of people still have to beat...", of course – that for their own good. Now God forbid that such will be resurrected... But I do not know.

The guys from Pink Floyd are just English, just like the Beatles. I told you, in the ' 60s, point your finger at any Englishman with a guitar, if he's from the back alley – and you get to the star of rock music, or in the future of a great musician. What is interesting – that when I first heard the Beatles music, it seemed to me charming, I could not tear myself away from it, like a rat from the pipes of the Hamelin pied Piper.... I wanted to take a guitar and pick it up, and play and sing it all the time... Completely different the experience was from the Dark Side... I thought she was magnificent, perfect and inaccessible for the execution of mere mortals, so it seems, and still…

In his solo albums, David retains that magical sound of Pink Floyd music.

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb Live in Pompeii 2016