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David Gilmour: Biography

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Birth Name: David Jon Gilmour
Birth Place: Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge, England
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/06/1946, Pisces
Profession: Rock musician

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David Gilmour Fast Facts:

Has sold, as part of Pink Floyd, over 74 million records and CDs in the U.S., and more than 200 million worldwide.
Acquired his first guitar at age 13, when a neighbor lent him his. He never returned it.
Learned to play guitar from a Pete Seeger guitar-instruction record and book.
Met Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, during childhood in Cambridge .
Spent the summer of 1965 busking in the south of France with Syd Barrett.
Briefly worked as a model during the mid-1960s.
Recruited to Pink Floyd in 1968 to flesh out their sound; Syd Barrett left shortly thereafter.
Pink Floyd's classic 1973 LP Dark Side of the Moon remained on Billboard's Top 200 (U.S.) album chart for a record-setting 14 years.
Discovered and mentored British chanteuse Kate Bush.
Released his first solo album, David Gilmour, in 1978.
Feuded with Floyd bandmate Roger Waters after Waters quit the group in 1985 and sued Gilmour and the other members over the rights to the Pink Floyd name; they later settled.
Awarded the CBE (Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2003 for services to music.
Inducted with Pink Floyd in 1996 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hired the Australian Pink Floyd (a tribute band) to play his 50th birthday party.
Learned to play saxophone in his mid-50s after his son Charlie expressed an interest in the instrument; they took lessons from the same teacher.
Sold his London home in 2003 and donated the entire amount (3.6 million pounds) to the homeless charity Crisis; he later served as the organization's vice president.
Donated all royalties to charity when Pink Floyd sales spiked following the group's memorable Live 8 reunion in 2005.
Once watched The Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon to check the alleged synchronicity between the two. It didn't make much sense to him.