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DAVID GILMOUR, LIKE MOST OF US, MAY have reason to consider elements in his past with a degree of caution. “I tend to examine my nostalgia and think, Wow, it really wasn’t that great,” he admits to MOJO this month, before pointing out it’s now been nearly four decades since he was in a band with his nemesis, Roger Waters. In that time, Gilmour has steered Pink Floyd to a dignified end, and focused on a solo career that’s flourished to a point where he can call his new album, Luck And Strange, “the best record I’ve made going back to The Dark Side Of The Moon.”

If he’s sometimes appeared to have a rather serene approach to work post-Waters, much of Mark Blake’s excellent cover story reveals a very different artist. Gilmour in 2024 is, in many ways, the model of a rock elder statesman: acutely aware of his own history, but unafraid of interrogating that heritage as well as the fundaments of his music. “In my life, people generally are too respectful,” he says. “I really needed to be kicked right out of my comfort zone.”

JOHN MULVEY, EDITOR

Reach for the sky!

Hats off to Nelson George for his excellent piece on Motown 1964 [MOJO 371]. Every now and then someone writes something that simply highlights why we love music and the sheer exhilaration that classic music provides. This was one such piece. Nelson captured the atmosphere superbly and I almost felt I was there, even though I was only three at the time! Loved the quotes from the mighty James Jamerson. This article fair uplifted me on a dull Glasgow evening.