Pink Floyd: Rai5 to air the documentary "David Gilmour: Wider Horizons"

"David Gilmour: Wider Horizons": on Tuesday 26 May at 00:20 on Rai5 (later streaming on RaiPlay), a documentary will air tracing the entire career of the guitarist who, after the departure of original leader Syd Barrett, played a decisive role in the rise of Pink Floyd. Just days ago we told the story of Gilmour's historic official debut with the English band on the French TV show "Bouton Rouge".
The crew led by Alan Yentob — creative director at the BBC — 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 aspects and curiosities that no one 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 already 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 repeatedly while I was performing at a party in Paris. I was playing guitar and couldn't move. She smiled at me and left with a German gentleman who wasn't sexy at all, but far more elegant than me". But no one knew that Gilmour had actually taken part in the soundtrack of one of her films.

Last year David Gilmour returned with a new solo work, "Luck And Strange", which hit No. 1 on the UK Chart (the third time for one of his solo works), and with a world tour that also saw him play a series of dates at the Circus Maximus in Rome.
Those shows provided the footage for the concert film "Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome", which also reached Italian cinemas, and the live double album "The Luck And Strange Concerts". A work that takes on particular significance, as it could turn out to be a kind of definitive testament, especially if the rumours are confirmed that this was the English guitarist's last tour. What's more, the album 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 clear.

It was right at the Circus Maximus, in the heart of Rome, that the "Luck and Strange Tour 2024" kicked off, the first in almost ten years of silence. Six consecutive sold-out shows launched a run that would sell out everywhere: from the warm-up dates at the Brighton Centre to the London shows at the Royal Albert Hall, all the way to the American dates 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 the Circus Maximus, Rome", directed by longtime collaborator Gavin Elder, captures the magic of those Roman nights against the imposing backdrop of the ruins of the Circus Maximus. Distributed internationally by Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing, it will be shown in cinemas and IMAX theatres around the world; in Italy it will arrive as a special event through Nexo Studios, with Virgin Radio as official radio partner, 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, the 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 Pink Floyd guitarist and singer revealed that this time the wait between records could be shorter than usual: "I'm planning on doing 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 turn out to be the shortest in his recording history.

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