David Gilmour CBE, the voice & guitar of Pink Floyd, hit No. 1 in the UK for the third time as a solo artist in 2024 with ‘Luck and Strange’, his latest studio album. The album was followed in 2025 by ‘The Luck and Strange Concerts’ live album and ‘Live at the Circus Maximus‘ concert film, both recorded in Rome. A Cambridge friend of Syd Barrett, David joined Syd, with Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason, in Pink Floyd in early 1968, only for Syd to leave the group five gigs later. Pink Floyd's subsequent huge worldwide success continued after Roger Waters' departure in 1985, with the albums A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both charting at No. 1 in the UK and the US, and sell-out world tours. The 2006 solo album ‘On an Island’ was followed by Pink Floyd’s final album, 2014’s ‘The Endless River’, (No. 1 in 21 countries) and ‘Rattle That Lock’, released in 2015 (No. 1 in 13 countries).