In June 2019, David Gilmour raised $21.5m from the Christie’s sale of more than 120 of his instruments and artefacts. He gave the proceeds to ClientEarth, a charity which uses the power of the law to protect the planet and its people.
“The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face,” said David. “I hope that the sale of these guitars will help ClientEarth in their actions to use the law to bring about real change. We need a civilised world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond, in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung.”
Argentina has been announced as the seventh country to hold The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, a critically lauded major retrospective of Pink Floyd, their music, and the band’s influence on art and culture. Following its enormously successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 2017, which drew over 400,000 visitors, and an equally successful tour through Rome, Madrid, Dortmund, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Toronto, the Exhibition will now take up residence in Buenos Aires. The Exhibition, which is making its debut in South America, will open on September 10 at the Pabellón Frers of La Rural Fairgrounds. This major exhibition room is the appropriate setting for the comprehensive experiential trip through Pink Floyd’s world, from high-tech audio-visual events to items.
The album features eight new tracks along with a beautiful reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers’ Between Two Points and has artwork and photography by the renowned artist Anton Corbijn.
Musicians contributing to the record include Guy Pratt and Tom Herbert on bass, Adam Betts, Steve Gadd and Steve DiStanislao on drums, Rob Gentry and Roger Eno on keyboards, with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. The title track also features the late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at David’s house.
Some contributions emerged from the live streams that Gilmour and family performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021; Romany Gilmour sings, plays the harp and appears on lead vocals on Between Two Points. Gabriel Gilmour also sings backing vocals.
The album’s cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Charlie Gilmour for the album’s final song Scattered. Of working with his family on Luck and Strange, David says, “Polly and I have been writing together for over thirty years and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy”.
Luck and Strange
1. Black Cat
2. Luck and Strange
3. The Piper’s Call
4. A Single Spark
5. Vita Brevis
6. Between Two Points – with Romany Gilmour
7. Dark and Velvet Nights
8. Sings
9. Scattered
