David Gilmour shuts down possible Pink Floyd reunion: “It’s not going to happen”
Former Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour has confirmed the band have no plans to return and told fans to “dream on”.
The final performance by Pink Floyd came when they united at Live 8 in 2005 at Hyde Park. At this stage, they had already feuded for two decades, but put their personal problems aside for the greater, charitable good.
Although the performance was a success, and the band were offered a lucrative sum of money to heal their differences for a world tour, Gilmour refused the opportunity. Since then, the issues between him and Roger Waters have grown to a seemingly unrepairable degree.
Significantly, after Waters was accused of antisemitism in 2023 and had shows cancelled in Germany due to the allegations, which he denies, Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, wrote on X: “Sadly, Roger Waters, you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”
Soon after, Gilmore supported Samson’s comments by quoting the post and adding: “Every word demonstrably true.”
When Waters appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored, he refused to respond to Samson and Gilmour’s remarks, telling the host, “No comment. Oh, shut up… They’re public, and I’m private”.
In addition to the feud between the pair, the death of keyboardist, Richard Wright, in 2008, is another reason why a Pink Floyd reunion was always unlikely to materialise but Gilmour’s latest comments are the final nail in the coffin. He told ITV News in a new interview: “Dream on, it’s not going to happen. There’s only three people left and we’re not talking and unlikely to so it’s not gonna happen.”
On the topic of reunions, Gilmour backed Oasis’ decision to write another chapter of their story, commenting, “I think Oasis should do exactly what they want to do. I’m not sure about this strange ticketing thing that’s going on. I think they should put a price on tickets and stick to it.”
However, he does fear that the next generation of bands won’t go on to become a Pink Floyd or Oasis, pointing the blame on “greed” and “short term thinking” as reasons why record labels aren’t devoting their resources to uncovering groups.
Looking back on the 1970s, Gilmour reminisced: “Well, that was part of what was the golden age. There were a lot of record companies that had ideologies that involved them investing money in the futures of young, talented people, and that doesn’t seem to be here right now in the same sort of way.”
Despite being a veteran of the music business, Gilmour remains committed to his craft and released his latest solo LP, Luck and Strange, on September 14th. In a four-star review, Far Out wrote: “The album is tortuous both sonically and emotionally, with moments of brightness, darkness, beauty and fear. As we make our way through this series of emotional undulations, however, Samson and Gilmour present omnipresent themes of ageing and mortality. Gilmour’s glory years with Pink Floyd are many years behind him now, but in this balanced, familial album, he proves he’s still got it. “
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