David Gilmour

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched that of the British Empire from its zenith to its final decades. Kipling was in his early twenties when his first stories about Anglo-Indian life vaulted him into celebrity. He went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize, and to add more phrases to the language than any man...

At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father...

"One of the most acclaimed concept albums of all time ...."--Amazon.

Gilmour's 2009 jam session with ambient collective the Orb has grown into an album. The album features David's guitar and lap steel guitar, Alex Paterson contributes sound manipulation, keyboards, and turntables, and Martin 'Youth' Glover adds bass and keyboards and handles the production.