He is a guitarist and singer-songwriter born in Cambridge,
England. His father
was a lecturer in Zoology and his mother a teacher.He met Syd Barrett while still a
child in Cambridge and when he
was a student at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology they
played guitar together.He was
with the band Jokers Wild and then he toured Europe
with Flowers and later he was a member of Bullitt.He became a member of the group Pink
Floyd in 1967 as a singer-songwriter and guitarist.Their album Dark Side of the Moon is the third most successful of all
time.From 1978 he was also
working on his solo career and he produced two albums David Gilmour and About
Face.After Roger Waters
left Pink Floyd in 1985 he took control and they released the No. 1 hit
albums, in the US
and the UK,
A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell.In 2004 he donated the #3.6
million proceeds from the sale of his house in London
to the homeless charity, Crisis, and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE for his
services to music.As a collaborator and studio musician he has worked with
artists including Paul
McCartney, Kate
Bush
and Pete Townshend. He has been nominated for a
2007 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance on the song "Castellorizon" from his album On an Island.
