![]() ![]() ‘Every time I listen to the actual original recording, I think, “God, I should have really done that a little bit better,”’ he says. ![]() This passage was then mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along. He played the intro on the Martin D12-28 12-string, processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, before overdubbing a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo on the D-35. The song opens with the sound of a car radio, which was recorded in Gilmour’s car. ![]() ‘Because of its resonance and the emotional weight it carries, it is one of our best songs.’ ‘Although Shine on You Crazy Diamond is the one that is specifically about Syd and Wish You Were Here has a broader remit, I can’t sing it without thinking about Syd,’ Gilmour explained in the 2012 documentary about the making of the album. Along with Shine on You Crazy Diamond, which bookended the album, the ballad is inspired by Pink Floyd founder member Syd Barrett, who left the band in 1968. ‘To me it’s not a luxury,’ he explained, ‘it’s an essential… Life is impossible without a guitar.’ĭavid Gilmour’s Martin D-35 is immortalised for its part in Wish You Were Here, the classic title track of Pink Floyd’s 1975 follow-up album to The Dark Side of the Moon. ![]() When host Sue Lawley inquired what his luxury ‘desert island’ item would be, Gilmour said that he would take his Martin D-35. In the same year, 2003, Gilmour was a guest on Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC Radio 4 show. ‘I guess it would be my Martin D-35,’ he replied. More than 30 years after that chance encounter on the streets of New York, Gilmour was asked by Guitar Player magazine which of his many guitars had most songs attached to it. Little was he to know then that the instrument would go on to spend decades as his primary studio acoustic for both Pink Floyd and his solo recordings. The Pink Floyd singer and songwriter took a look, liked what he saw, and liked what he heard even better. Gilmour had gone in search of a new acoustic guitar, but before he had even made it through the door of Manny’s he was approached on the street by a musician who was hawking a Martin D-35. It’s hard to describe, but it was a wonderful place.’ As well as being lined with guitars, the shop’s walls were plastered with many thousands of autographed publicity shots of famous musicians, including Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Who and The Beatles, who all made a beeline for Manny’s whenever they hit town. ‘It was a very New York experience - the sort of thing we English boys had seen in films. ‘It was legendary,’ confirms Gilmour, who had purchased his iconic ‘Black Strat’ from Manny’s just the year before. The area near Times Square was a thriving hub for musicians who came to buy and sell instruments, and one of its most popular haunts was the famed Manny’s Music store, which had been in business since 1939. The Seventies were still in their infancy when David Gilmour turned onto Music Row, West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan. ![]()
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