Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters – the driving creative forces behind Pink Floyd – reunited at a gig last weekend, the first time the two have shared a stage since 2005’s Live Aid gigs.
Playing in front of just 200 people at the Hoping Foundation benefit gig in Oxfordshire, the two put aside their legendary animosity to perform four songs together for the charity which raises funds for Palestinian refugees. The pair opened with Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (apparently a Floyd sound-check staple) and the classic tracks “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb” and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.”
Although the death of keyboards whiz Rick Wright in 2008 is thought to have put the kybosh on any reunion hopes, Gilmour is leaving the door open for such an event, despite turning down an offer to join Waters on his massive US tour of seminal 1980 album The Wall. According to a status update on Waters’ Facebook page, Gilmour has indicated he’s thinking about joining his old bandmate for some gigs.
Waters infamously quit the band in the 1980s as his control freak tendencies made him impossible to work with, while as the joke at the time went, his bandmates were known as Pink ‘Ha ha Roger, we got the band name’ Floyd.
