The song that David Gilmour prefers to dance

At first glance it might seem that the guitarist of Pink Floyd David Gilmour It may be very far from the sounds of Soul and R’n’B music, in reality the great musicians draw inspiration and enjoyment from any kind of source.

When i Pink Floyd They appeared on the musical proscenium, in the second part of the sixties, in their Great Britain blues and psychedelic rock lived a great season, while in the United States Soul music was successful thanks to artists like Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin And Nina Simoneand the impeccable work of the record label

Motown Records.

Among the many successful songs by Motown a place of his own “Dancing in the Street”interpreted by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson And Ivy Jo Hunter In 1964, it is a song that pushes to move the back and get to dance happily but also proved to be a hymn in favor of civil rights. For this reason, the song was opposed by the British press because it was accused of inciting the violent revolt.

The biographer of Martha Reeves In this regard, he reported: “The British press irritated the Reeves when he put a microphone in his face asking her if he was a militant leader. The British journalist wanted to know if Reeves agreed, as many had said, that” Dancing in the Street “was an invitation to the revolt. For Reeves, the question was clearly absurd. Song ‘”.

Definition, that of Reeves, who David Gilmour He fully married so much to insert her, in 2003, in the list of the eight songs that would bring with him on a hypothetical desert island in the radio program of the BBC ‘Desert Island Discs’. When he was asked to motivate his choice, the guitarist of Pink Floyd He replied: “I think I should take Martha and the Vandellas to dance. I will need to dance. At my extremely advanced age I don’t do it very often, of course. But I need some music to dance for the Tamla Motown that accompanies me on this beach.”