New David Gilmour tour dates

David Gilmour will be touring Europe (Royal Albert Hall among other places), the U.S.(New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and more..) and Canada from March 10 to May 31 to promote his new solo album "On An Island". David Gilmour sometimes misspelled David Gilmore or David Gilmor was ranked the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. He is famous for his blues influenced guitar work with Pink Floyd and on his solo albums.
 

David Gilmour background and short history

David Gilmour was born and raised in Cambridge in England.  Gilmour started his music career in a small band called Joker's Wild in 1963. Gilmour left Jokers Wild in 1966 and formed a new band with some of its members. This band, firstly named Flowers, later renamed Bullitt, spent the rest of 1966 and most of 1967 playing in Spain and France, before breaking up later that year. Gilmour was asked to join Pink Floyd in January of 1968 and only months later, he assumed the role of the band's lead guitarist and shared lead vocal duties with Roger Waters. Gilmour's guitar work and song writing including an even balance between lyrics and instrumental work became major factors in Pink Floyd's world-wide success during the 1970s. However, in the early and mid 1980's, Waters took more and more control over the band. The relationship between Waters and Gilmour got worse until finally in the Mid 1980's the band parted ways. Even before this though, Gilmour released his first solo album "David Gilmour" in the spring of 1978. One of the songs he wrote at the time, but did not use, was developed to become the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb". Gilmour released his second solo album, About Face, in 1984. And In 1985, Waters declared that Pink Floyd was defunct. However, Gilmour assumed full control and created A Momentary Lapse of Reason which was very popular and proved that the band could still put out great albums with Gilmour at the helm.