Pink Floyd: Gilmour vs. Waters

Author Alexandre Higounet

While the conflictual relationship between David Gilmour and Roger Waters is systematically highlighted in the history of Pink Floyd, its genesis, its content, its mechanisms, and its artistic consequences have paradoxically never received real attention. This is the ambition of this book. Alexandre Higounet returns to the tortuous journey of these two musicians from the same city, Cambridge, sharing the same friendships, but seeming, from the start, to inexorably take different paths. An enriching opposition if ever there was one, it embodies one of the essential driving forces of Pink Floyd's work, this power struggle between two radically different artistic visions allowing for a synthesis as rich as it is unprecedented.

The Word and the Rest

ISBN: 9782384314102