David Gilmour: Rai5 airs the documentary "Wider Horizons", spanning his solo career and Pink Floyd

An evening dedicated to Pink Floyd and their guitarist David Gilmour. On Wednesday 14 January, at 11:20 pm on Rai5 (later streaming on RaiPlay), “David Gilmour: Wider Horizons” will air: a documentary retracing the musician's entire career, from his role, after the departure of original frontman Syd Barrett, in decisively driving the English band's rise.

The crew directed by Alan Yentob – the BBC's creative director – captured the key moments of Gilmour's personal and professional life and the turning points that shaped him as a man and a musician. The documentary reveals details and curiosities nobody suspected existed. In the film Gilmour himself reveals that he sang on a couple of songs in the 1967 film “Two Weeks in September” with Brigitte Bardot. It was known that David had a “crush” on the actress, as he himself stated in a 2008 interview with “Panorama”: “All I did was wink at her several times while performing at a party in Paris. I was playing guitar and couldn't move. She smiled at me and then left with a German gentleman who wasn't sexy at all, but much more elegant than me”. But nobody knew that Gilmour had taken part in the soundtrack of one of her films.

Last year David Gilmour returned with a new solo effort, "Luck And Strange", which hit No.1 on the UK Chart (the third time for one of his solo records), along with a world tour that also saw him play a run of dates at Rome's Circus Maximus.

Those shows yielded the concert film "Live at Circus Maximus. Rome", which also reached Italian cinemas, and the double live album "The Luck And Strange Concerts". A work that takes on particular significance, as it could turn out to be a kind of definitive statement, especially if the rumors that this was the English guitarist's last tour are confirmed. What's more, the record inevitably ends up in dialogue - and contrast - with the contemporaneous "This Is Not A Drill" by Roger Waters, since the human and artistic distance between the two has never seemed so stark.

It was at Circus Maximus, in the heart of Rome, that the "Luck and Strange Tour 2024" kicked off, the guitarist's first tour in almost ten years of silence. Six consecutive sold-out nights launched a run that sold out everywhere it went: from the warm-up dates at the Brighton Centre to the London shows at the Royal Albert Hall, on to the American gigs at the Intuit Dome and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, wrapping up with five nights at Madison Square Garden in New York. In total, all 23 dates of the tour sold out, confirming the artist's extraordinary following.

The film "Live at Circus Maximus. Rome", directed by longtime collaborator Gavin Elder, captures the magic of those Roman nights against the imposing backdrop of the Circus Maximus ruins. Distributed internationally by Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing, it will be screened in cinemas and IMAX theaters worldwide; in Italy it will arrive as a special event through Nexo Studios, with Virgin Radio as official radio partner and in collaboration with MYmovies and D'Alessandro e Galli.

"Luck And Strange", Gilmour's fifth solo album, topped the charts in the UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Portugal and Austria. It reached No.2 in France, Italy and Belgium, the Top 5 in Spain, Japan, Norway, Denmark and Hungary, and the Top 10 in the United States, Australia, Finland, Sweden, Ireland and New Zealand.

Tickets and the list of venues (standard and IMAX) are available at davidgilmour.film and nexostudios.it.

But that's not all, because David Gilmour is also planning to make a new studio album. In an interview with Record Collector, picked up by the site Floydiani.it, the guitarist and voice of Pink Floyd revealed that this time the wait between one record and the next could be shorter than usual: “I'm planning to make another record”, he stated, adding that he hopes to soon be able to immerse himself in the work with his usual obsessiveness.

Gilmour's solo career has always been marked by long gaps between albums: "David Gilmour" (1978) was followed by "About Face" (1984), then "On An Island" (2006) and "Rattle That Lock" (2015), up to the recent "Luck And Strange" (2024). If he keeps his promise, the next wait could be the shortest of his recording career.

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