Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is keen to sell the band's back catalogue, not for the financial gain it would likely bring him, but rather to reduce the headache he would have to deal with in the future.
“Freeing myself from the decision making and the arguments that go into keeping it going is my dream,” he explained in a recent interview with Rolling Stone“I am not interested in it from a financial point of view. I am only interested in getting out of the mud bath it has been in for quite some time.”
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The “mud bath” Gilmour speaks of likely refers to his contentious relationship with his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, whom Gilmour described as a “misogynist, anti-Semite and Putin apologist” in 2023. That was just one relatively recent incident in decades of tension and conflict between the two.
In 2022, Pink Floyd first explored a catalog sale, but these talks fell through due to infighting between band members and a round of incendiary comments from Waters, making potential buyers wary of moving forward. According to the Financial timeThe catalog sale would be worth around 500 million dollars if it were to be completed.
While these conversations remain on the back burner, Gilmour has been focusing on his latest solo work, Luck and Strangewhich will be promoted on a fall tour (get tickets) here). He described the LP as “the best album I've made in all those years since 1973 when The dark side of the moon “He left.”
In recent years, several legendary artists have sold their catalogues for huge sums of money. Recent examples include Bruce Springsteen, who sold his master recordings and publishing rights to Sony for $500 million, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers struck a deal with Hipgnosis Songs for $140 million.
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