Pink Floyd, “it’s in the past”, says David Gilmour

The musician spoke about the sale of Pink Floyd’s musical catalog, recently sold to Sony for a nice sum. And he has no regrets.

400 million dollars. This is the very large check that Sony Music signed to recover the musical catalog of Pink Floyd a few weeks ago. In this juicy deal, all the recordings, related rights, and rights to use the name and image of the group. Enough to hesitate for some. But not for David Gilmour.

“I gave up this fight”

The musician has indeed put all his years into Pink Floyd his derrière “It’s history — it’s the past, he confided to the Los Angeles Times. These are things for future generations”. A legacy which Sony Music will have the heavy responsibility of highlighting and perpetuating for years to come.

Claiming to now be “an elderly person”, Gilmour explain : “I have spent the last 40 years trying to fight the good fight against the forces of indolence and greed to do the best that we can do with our equipment. And I have given up this fight now”.

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A practical thing about such a contract is that the musician has already received an advance. “Because, you know, it’s not new money or anything like that, pour­suit-il. That’s an advance on what I would have earned over the next few years anyway”. But it was not so much the lure of profit that pushed him to sign.

It is rather the deterioration of relations between the members of Pink Floydconsumed by ego wars. “The arguments, fights and silliness that has gone on over the last 40 years between these four disparate groups of people and their managers, it’s nice to say goodbye”, con­clut-il.

David Gilmour had already certified it in the newspaper The Guardian last month, he couldn’t anyway “absolutely not” play again with Roger Waters. “I tend to avoid people who actively support genocidal, autocratic dictators like Pou­tine et Maduro, he commented. Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is acceptable”.