David Jon Gilmour was born in Cambridge, London in March 6, 1946 as the

second child of Douglas Gilmour, a senior lecturer in Zoology at the University,

and Sylvia, a teacher. Best known as guitarist, vocalist and writer with Pink
Floyd, he is also renowned for his solo work and collaborations with other artists
including Kate Bush, Paul McCartney, and Pete Townshend.

When a teenager he went to Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and
met Syd Barrett and together they used to spend their lunch times playing guitar.
They had spent a lot of their guitar sessions playing The Beatles tunes. Then he
joined a band called Jokers Wild during 1963 for three years and in 1966 he left
had and joined a band called Bullitt which then changed to Flowers. He had
spent a lot of his time playing in Spain and France with his band Flowers and two
years later he received a call from Pink Floyd asking him to join them for the
purpose of replacing bands member Syd Barrett, who left the band for his drug
consumptions. Gilmour then permanently replaced him and then took advantage
of becoming the lead guitarist and participated with the lead vocals with Roger.
David Gilmour is well known for his soothing guitar sound with delicate string
bends and slides that makes his playing style unique to many others. This along
with his particular voice sound is used widely on most of the successful Pink
Floyd albums in the 1970s including the bands biggest ever album Dark Side of
the Moon. Gilmour owned much of the Pink Floyd sound.

After being apart of albums following Dark Side of The Moon such as Wish You
Were Here(1975), Animals(1977) and The Wall(1979) David Gilmours relationship
with Waters grew sour as Waters increasingly took control of the band. In 1985,
Roger Waters no longer wanted Pink Floyd to carry on and tried to demolish the
band. However Gilmour really stepped in and tried as hard as possible to stop
Waters from doing this by filing a number of law suits. After spending a lot of
money on numerous law suits and much hard work, Gilmour got Floyd back
again and took full control of the band until 1996, when the band made his last
album The Division Bell and broke up after the tour.
Gilmour has also produced his own solo albums as well as the Pink Floyd
albums. His first one titled David Gilmour was produced in 1978 which was
produced before album The Wall was released. The second album that Gilmour
produced About Face was brought out after the The Wall in 1984. Both of these
albums were not very successful.Also, in between band duties. Gilmour has
performed with many other stars such as Roy Harper, Kate Bush - whom he had
founded, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Elton John, Arcadia, Bryan Ferry, Berlin,
Robert Wyatt, Paul McCartney, Sam Brown, Jools Holland, , Pete Townshend,
Alan Parsons, and more. David Gilmour can also play bass guitar and has very
lately been playing the saxophone which is heard on one of his tracks on his new
album On an Island. In 2003, he was appointed CBE for his charity work and
was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards, and
participated in two Pink Floyds reunion, one in 2005 for Live 8 in London, and
another one in 2010 for a concert of Roger Waters The Wall Tour in Londons
02 Arena.