David Gilmour has claimed Pink Floyd were “bullied” by their record label to release their final album, ‘The Endless River’, as a “properly paid-for record”.
David Gilmour insists Pink Floyd’s last album wasn’t intended to be a follow-up to ‘The Division Bell’
The 78-year-old rocker – who joined the legendary prog rock group in 1967 – believes the 2014 record was wrongly promoted as a follow-up to 1994’s ‘The Division Bell’, when in fact, it was just a continuation of instrumental and ambient music recorded in the same sessions for its predecessor.
Engineer Andy Jackson originally edited the music into an hour-long ambient composition tentatively titled ‘The Big Spliff’, but the ‘Comfortably Numb’ group decided not to release it, though two of the tracks do appear as bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of ‘The Endless River’.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Gilmour said of his latest solo album ‘Luck and Strange’: “Hope you like this album better than The Endless River.”
He then explained: “A lot of fans wanted this stuff that we’d done in that time, and we thought we’d give it to them.
“My mistake, I suppose, was in being bullied by the record company to have it out as a properly paid-for Pink Floyd record. It should have been clear what it was — it was never intended to be the follow-up to ‘The Division Bell.’ But, you know, it’s never too late to get caught in one of these traps again.”
The album was released following the departure of the bassist, Roger Waters, in 1985, and the first following the death of keyboardist, Richard Wright, in 2008, who made a posthumous appearance.
While promoting the record, Pink Floyd transferred to the Parlophone Label Group during the sale of EMI to Universal Music Group.
Then, Warner Music…
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