Three Classics David Gilmour Won’t Play in Concert in Rome

Next September 27th David Gilmour will hold the first of his six Italian concerts at the Circo Massimo in Rome in support of his latest album “Lucky and strange” (read the review here) released earlier this month. The guitarist of Pink Floyd has not performed in Italy since 2016 and among the many curiosities of the fans is that of finding out which classics will be included in the setlist and which, unfortunately, will not be able to find a place.

Gilmour himself partially answered this question in an interview with Mark Blake of the magazine

Mojo saying: “There are songs from the past that I don’t feel comfortable singing anymore. I love ‘Run Like Hell’ (from Pink Floyd’s 1979 album ‘The Wall’). I loved the music I created for that, but all that ‘You’d better run, run, run…’ now I find quite, I don’t know… a bit terrifying and violent.”

He goes on to explain: “Another Brick In The Wall” is another song I’m not doing. I don’t think I’ve done it with my band, but I certainly did it in the post-Roger Pink Floyd, against my better judgment. Same with “Money”. I’m not doing it. I’ll continue to play the stuff that is essentially my music and that I feel a part of in some way. “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, maybe…”

In an interview with ITN News,
David Gilmour
stressed that anyone hoping to see the three members of the
Pink
Floyd
–
him, Roger Waters and Nick Mason
– sharing a stage together again should be “dreamed of”. In the same chat he was asked: “What do you think about this constant desire for a Pink Floyd reunion?”. He answered bluntly: “It’s not going to happen. There are only three people left and we’re not talking about it and we’re unlikely to. So it’s not going to happen”.

He was also asked what he thought about why rock bands no longer dominated the UK singles charts like they did with
Pink Floyd
of the golden age in the 70s. “Well, that was a golden age. There were a lot of record companies that had an ideology that led them to invest money in the future of talented young people, unfortunately today it doesn’t seem to be like that.”