David's first solo album recorded at Super Bear Studios, France in 1978. The album was a side project, featuring Rick Wills on bass and Willie Wilson on drums & percussion, the album charted in the UK and the US. This self-titled solo debut peaked at #29 in 1978 and 1984's About Face peaked at #32 in 1984, thus making him the only member of Pink Floyd to have a commercially successful solo career. "There's No Way Out Of Here/Deafinitely" were released as a single. Read more on Last.fm.
David Jon Gilmour, known as David Gilmour (born 6 March 1946 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom) is an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, who was the guitarist, lead vocalist and one of the songwriters of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
Gilmour was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a teacher and film editor who raised her family at Grantchester Meadows Read more on Last.fm
