As reported in a press release taken from "Loudersound", "Behind the wall" will retrace, through Ginger Gilmour's experience, her relationship with David Gilmour himself and Pink Floyd, as well as the "dynamics between the band members at the peak of their fame". The former Roger Waters buddy was married to Ginger Gilmour, born Virginia Hasenbein, between 1975 and 1990, before marrying Polly Samson, his current wife, four years later.
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's first wife Ginger Gilmour will publish a new book, Behind The Wall, on May 24 through New Haven Publishing, charting her life with Gilmour, with whom she had four children, and life with Pink Floyd in the 1970s.
"Behind the Wall is a unique insight into her relationship with David, Pink Floyd and the dynamics between the band members at the height of their fame," the publishers state. "This book includes many private photographs of her family and Pink Floyd on many of the tours she attended and at their homes."
American born model and artist Virginia 'Ginger' Hasenbein first met Gilmour backstage at a Pink Floyd concert in 1971 and has described it as "love at first sight". The pair married in 1975 and went on to have four children. The relationship ended during the band's A Momentary Lapse Of Reason world tour, with Gilmour later marrying author Polly Samson in 1994, with whom he also has four children. Ginger also penned Memoirs Of The Bright Side Of The Moon in 2015.
Later that very same month, Waters unexpectedly leapt to the defence of his ex-Pink Floyd collaborator after an article in The New Statesman appeared to quote Waters as criticising Gilmour's guitar playing on the band's legendary 1973 album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. "Now, I don't know who [The New Stateman's Stuart Maconie] thinks he's quoting when he says GiImour's 'horrible guitar solos' but it sure as shit ain't me," Waters stated bluntly. "I was there, I love Dave's guitar solos on DSOTM, both of them, and on WYWH and on Animals and on The Wall and on The Final Cut.
"In my, albeit biased view, Dave's solos on those albums constitute a collection of some of the very best guitar solos in the history of rock'n'roll." Waters singled out an article published by The New Statesman titled The War within Pink Floyd and took aim at the fact it quoted him as labeling Gilmour’s guitar solos in The Dark Side of the Moon as “horrible”.
However, The New Statesman’s article attributed the quote to a Spanish publication called El País – which in turn did not cite a source at the time – with the latter suggesting the solos were removed by Waters’ from his upcoming re-recorded version of The Dark Side of the Moon as they were “horrible”.
"There is a crappy article in The New Statesman, written, if you can call it writing, by a chap called Stuart Maconie. It’s the usual, shit stirring, ill informed nonsense. However, there is, in the article, something upon which I need to set the record straight."
Gilmour "absolutely" doesn't want to go back to the group and play stadiums again, as he enjoys being able to be "free to do" what he wants.
Speaking to Guitar Player magazine, he said: "It has run its course, we are done. I'm all for Roger doing whatever he wants to do and enjoying himself.
"But I absolutely don't want to go back. I don't want to go and play stadiums. I'm free to do exactly what I want to do and how I want to do it."
