Pink Floyd's Gilmour turns 60

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Like George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Cher and a host of other famous folks born at the crack of the baby boom, David Gilmour turns 60 this year. And the singer/songwriter and erstwhile Pink Floyd guitarist has mixed feelings about reaching this milestone.

"I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time," says Gilmour, who hit the big 6-0 Monday. "But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list."

Gilmour admits he has grappled with his own "terrors, with that thing that one tends to be afraid of, dying. But that tends to have evaporated over the years, I think."

Thus the tone on Gilmour's new CD, On an Island, released Tuesday, is one of "contentment and resignation," he says. "It's tinged with little regrets and sadness and nostalgia, but there is a happiness at the core of it."

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[method77]

I think he will be here this summer. I will go see him

[Crazy Horse]

I will too. He has always been one of my favorite guitarists.