David Gilmour opens up about marking the end of Pink Floyd

Fans of Pink Floyd are no doubt getting excited for the release of The Endless River (released on November 10) but unfortunately it does not look like a tour will be on the cards.

David Gilmour has opened up to Rolling Stone about the album marking the end of Pink Floyd. Speaking of the release of The Endless River, Gilmour said: “Anything we had of value is on this album. Trying to do it again would mean using second-best material, and that’s not good enough for me.”

Of course, a tour will also not likely occur due to the fact that keyboardist Rick Wright, unfortunately passed away in 2008. Gilmour elaborated: “Without [Rick], that’s kind of impossible. I’m really enjoying my life and my music. There’s no room for Pink Floyd. The thought of doing any more causes me to break out in a cold sweat.”

Drummer Nick Mason spoke to us recently and pointed out all the problems with the idea of touring stating: “The first thing to make really clear is that a lot of the new album is actually something that was originally started 20 years ago, so a lot of it is where we were 20 years ago,” said Mason. “The idea was that we were going to make [1994's 'Division Bell'] into a double album, half of it songs and half of it ambient — this is based on some of that ambient material with a lot of other things added in. In some ways it’s old Pink Floyd, rather than new Pink Floyd. It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s different, I suppose.”

Aside from breaking the hearts of Pink Floyd fans across the world, the feature did give a lot of insight into their new album. Listeners will only hear one song with lyrics, ‘Louder Than Words’. The lyrics to this closing track were written by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson.

Speaking about his distance to Roger Waters, Gilmour explained: “Why on Earth anyone thinks what we do now would have anything to do with him is a mystery to me… I was in my thirties when Roger left the group. I’m 68 now. It’s over half a lifetime away. We really don’t have that much in common anymore.”

The Endless River will be released 10 November.