David Gilmour

Pink Floyd beats Bublé to Xmas No.1, only 2,620 weeks after their first

David Gilmour raises a glass as Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ drifts, somewhat belatedly, to Christmas Number One in the UK. Reissued for its 50th anniversary, the album eclipses its 1975 debut performance and secures the longest gap between an artist’s first and most recent chart-toppers—2,620 weeks, to be exact.

Amid digital repackaging and nostalgic vinyl, the band edges out Taylor Swift, Olivia Dean, and a predictably snow-dusted Bublé. Meanwhile, pop-up stores and fanzine reprints complete the ceremonial nod to capitalist sentimentality.

Gilmour Says “Never” to Waters Reunion, Cites Autocrats and No Nostalgia

David Gilmour states, with glacial certainty, that he will “never” reunite musically with Roger Waters, brushing off any suggestion with the flick of a syllable: “Nothing.”

Their discord, decades in the making, veers firmly into geopolitics, with Gilmour condemning Waters for his alleged fondness for autocrats and hostile attitudes toward women and LGBT rights.

Waters, predictably litigious, calls the accusations “wildly inaccurate.” Gilmour, now 78, finds the whole narrative tiring, preferring to remember bandmate Rick Wright, not a man he sees when he looks at Waters.