David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, CBE (born March 6, 1946) is an English guitarist and vocalist with British rock band Pink Floyd and has also released solo material and collaborated with many others. Following the depart

David Jon Gilmour, CBE (born March 6, 1946) is an English guitarist and vocalist with British rock band Pink Floyd and has also released solo material and collaborated with many others. Following the departure of Roger Waters in the mid-eighties, Gilmour effectively assumed control of the band.

Gilmour was born and grew up in Cambridge. His father was a senior lecturer in zoology. Gilmour met Syd Barrett while attending the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology where they spent their lunchtimes learning the guitar. They were not, however, bandmates, and Gilmour started playing in the band Joker's Wild in 1963. Gilmour left Joker's Wild in 1966 and formed a new band with some of its members. This band, firstly named Flowers, later changing their name to Bullitt, spent the rest of 1966 and most of 1967 playing in Spain and France, before disbanding later that year. Gilmour was asked to join Pink Floyd in January of the following year. Barrett "left" (in other words, his bandmates just decided not to pick him up for gigs) the group only months later and Gilmour assumed the role of the band's lead guitarist and shared lead vocal duties with Roger Waters. Gilmour's guitar playing and song writing became major factors of Pink Floyd's world-wide success during the 1970s. However, at the turn of the decade, Waters took more and more control over the band. The relationship between the two grew ever worse.