All right, it's all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. And if you don't already know it,

these are the opening strains to Pink Floyd's 1975 album. Wish You Were Here. The

The and I'm a I'm I'm I'm you're I'm I'm I'm The album Wish You Were Here.

It's celebrating its 50th anniversary, 50.

There's a big deluxe version coming out with a bunch of demos and outtakes.

There's a bunch of live recordings from that time that are all included in it.

So this week, we've got Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David

Gilmore in to talk all about it, to share memories and stories from the making of the album.

But this isn't just a nostalgia trip. Gilmore has a lot cooking right now. He turns 80 years old in

March, and I don't think it's a cliche or a throwaway

line to say he isn't slowing down. He had a new solo album last year. He co-wrote with his wife and

longtime collaborator, Polly Samson. It's called Luck and Strange. He just released a concert film

from his tour for the album, and he has a live album version of it coming out called The Luck and Strange Concerts.

So when David Gilmore and I sat down to talk, I was in D.C.

He was in his home studio south of London, and we started off with the new stuff, The Luck and Strange Concert concerts, which opens a lot like Wish You Were

Here opens with this slowly blooming and super calming song called 5am.

It is a recording of the sound outside my bedroom window at 5 a.m. one morning. And that moved on into inspiring a piece of simple music that suited a bit of guitar playing. and These things are hard to explain quite how they come to pass, how that inspiration strikes you, but it's a lucky moment when they do.

Yeah, I was going to ask you if you wrote it at 5am.

Are you a morning person?

Yes, I am, actually.

I mean, I didn't write it all.

No, I was leaning out of the window with the recorder,

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