David Gilmour: Jonny Buckland's Missing Link

In 1966, David Gilmour was a struggling musician playing tiny Paris venues such as Le Bilboquet with his band, Flowers. Forty years on, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd is playing the third date of his solo tour in the French capital to promote his No 1 album, On an Island. Fans are begging for tickets outside Le Grand Rex, a very plush equivalent of the Brixton Academy.

Just when you think you're drifting into coffee- table wonderland, the guitarist jolts you with the menacing "Take a Breath", whose majestic sweep recalls "One Slip" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The song features a blistering solo suggesting that Gilmour is the missing link between Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and younger players such as Coldplay's Jonny Buckland.

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