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David Gilmour: Live In Gdansk is a nod at history. It chronicles on two CDs and one DVD a 2006 show played at the shipyards of the Polish city. Those very shipyards were where the seeds of the 1980 populist uprising that changed that country forever were sown. It is also a poignant farewell. It is the last recorded snapshot of keyboardist Richard Wright, who was a charter member of Pink Floyd when they formed in 1965. In fact, it was released in the U.K. one week after he died Sept. 15. Above all, though, this is a great document of David Gilmour as an elder statesman of rock hitting on all cylinders. After being associated with Pink Floyd from the outset, Gilmour joined them full-time in 1968 after initial leader Syd Barrett's illness and demise. He was part of their commercial apex that ran throughout the 1970s with megahit albums like 1973's Dark Side Of The Moon and 1979's The Wall. After anger and lawsuits, he ended up with the name of the band and most of its members when it imploded in 1983 and Roger Waters went solo.
