Happy Birthday, David!
Yes, ‘On An Island’ hits the shops in the UK today and you all have to rush out and buy at least one copy if you aren’t waiting for the postman to deliver it.
But, above all, it’s David’s 60th birthday today, so let’s have your birthday greetings from around the world instead.
As hard as it is, if you could please refrain from commenting on the album until tomorrow, when fans in North America will also have heard it, tomorrow’s blog can be choc-a-block full of album-related opinions and thoughts.
As you know, David and Polly check up on us, so I think it would be fitting to show our thanks, appreciation and gratitude for the man who has given us such great music down the years, not least such a personal and meaningful new album this year.
I’ll leave it to you to send David your birthday greetings, however you deem fit.
Please keep them of a reasonable length, if you can. The more individual comments we have, and the easier it is for everyone to read through them all, the better.
Happy Birthday, David!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU,
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HAPPY BIIIIIRRRRTHDAY, Dear David
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!
And all the best wishes to all other bloggers…
Regards
Karin (next week in Hamburg)
PS: SUCHE dringend ein Ticket für CCH/Hamburg! Kontakt, klick auf meinen Namen. Komme von Berlin nach Hamburg!
Well, Happy Birthday David. It’s fantastic to hear you sounding so contented and at ease with the world – through the music of ‘On An Island’ and in the various interviews we’ve all heard and read. So looking forward to Tuesday at the Mermaid, as I hope you are!
And a big ‘Hi’ to Polly as well, quite clearly the reason for all that contentment!
Neil Pudney
Happy Birthday, David! Best wishes to you and yours.
Happy 60th, David
-Thanks for the music, it means a lot to your younger fans!
Yeah, a very happy birthday from Holland David! I’ll see you in Amsterdam on the 19th. Love your guitar playing style.
Happy Birthday David, I am not too far behind you. I am sure you will have a good one. I think I will have a pint in your honour. Look forward to your Massey Hall show in Toronto April 9th.
From what I have heard from the album from your fantastic webb page and the tireless efforts of your Fed Ed, even rock and roll gets better with age. Thanks again David and Ed for making the winter fly by. Later.
George
A very Happy Birthday to David, and many, many more! The time had come when we can all enjoy the fruits of David and Polly’s labour of love.
To David: Thank you for enjoying music enough to share something so personal and special with the rabid lot of us.
We will see you on Apri 10 in a state of bliss!
Till then, good luck and all hopes for an auspicious tour!
Reiner
Happy Birthday, David ! Good luck to your new album and tour . I am looking forward to see you in NY and Toronto in April . My best wishes to the greatest guitar player of all time !!!
“Thinking that we’re getting older and wiser when we’re just—”… ah, what the heck. Congratulations and best wishes!
Dear Mr. Gilmour!
I wish you a very happy 60th birthday!
Thank you for giving us all this incredible moving music over the last 40 years. I’m very much enjoying your latest work, but I’m also looking forward to what you will create in the next 40 years as well…. :-))
Enjoy YOUR day!!
Best wishes from
JT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID! I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AND HAVE FUN THIS EVENING AT YOUR PARTY!
I WILL SEE YOU IN CHICAGO APRIL 12th!
Happy Birthday, David!!!!
Hey, Big Guy!!! Have a great 60th!!! And, from me to you, a big thanks for the years of inspiration and consolation your music has given me. I look forward to picking up my copy March 7th here in the Bronx, NYC, and to seeing you live April 5th at Radio City.
I am really very happy for you and your wife, Polly. The wonderful family life that you have been able to create around you is obviously very special. Bless you and your family, and may the warm contentment you have found blanket you always!!!!
Hi David,
A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Being a teen in the 70′s thanks for the fantastic music, all of these years. Have a great day with your family. Life begins at….60!:)
Steve Carr
First of all I want to wish to you, David, an happy birthday.
I want to thank you for all this beautifull music you gave to us in all this years, it helped me in a difficult moments of my life, it is like a white sheet of paper that helped me to fix my feelings in.
Thanks also for this beautifull “On a Island”, I’ll hope to meet you on Milan Show…
Happy birthday David – I hope you have a great day, I will give you your card on Tuesday as I have forgotten to post it (how many times have we said this eh?)
Happy Birthday great David Gilmour.. Thanks for “On An Island”
Best wishes from Istanbul
Happy Birthday Dave. Your as young as you feel.
Take care
Ray Bowen
happy birthday David – 60 years young!! i hope you and Polly enjoy another 25 years of marital joy – at least!! thank you for all you’ve created and shared with the invisble Us. you’ve become the backdrop and continuous thread for a couple decades of our lives – that makes you very significant to us.
thank you, happy day, and i look forward to seeing/hearing you in NYC – -
much love
laurie
Happy Birthday, David! From your friends of KayaMBeE.
Best Wishes,
Kerry & Bert
happy b’day Dave, and many more to come!!! you’ve brought me so much happiness through the morbid music I can’t thank you enough, and I still think The Narrow way part 3 is one of the greatest songs ever recorded! Look after yourself and that fine family and that white fender with the gold bits on
lots of love Matt and Kelsey forever and ever xxx X 60
Happy Birthday David, can`t wait to see you in concert on April 20th at the Gibson Theater.
Best Of Wishes,
Barry
Happy Birthday David
Happy Birthday, David! Its still March 5th here in the states so I have two days until I can enjoy your album.
All the best David – really looking forward to OAI dropping through the letterbox, think I’ll grab myself a vinyl copy as well!
Good luck with the tour, see you in Manchester in May – it can’t come soon enough (although I hope I’m celebrating a sixth European Cup for Liverpool earlier that month
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We both wish you a special B-Day…Health,Chear,Music Lovers(of yours}together for 30+ years will see you in NYC
Happy birthday from Baltimore, Maryland, USA…see you in New York City.
Happy Birthday, David!
Happy Birthday, David!
Thanks for the new album and tour and oh yes, Happy Birthday, David!
Best Regards-
Happiest o’ birthdays to you, David. What an uncommon delight it is to be able to send you this message. (Many thanks to the groovy Features Editor and everyone who makes it possible.)
I was able to make a small donation to Crisis in your honor…wish it could have been more. I hope Crisis and the other charities you support are overwhelmed with donations today.
You’re my favorite, David Gilmour. Your music is always with me and I’m so grateful for it. Here’s hoping you have the most marvelous day and year.
Becky Baldwin
Dear David,
Birthday geetings from NYC! Hope you have a very happy birthday!! My wife and I are looking forward to seeing you at Radio City Music Hall on April 5th. We are also looking forward to playing your new cd when it’s released on Tuesday.
All the best! Ed & Vicki
Happy Birthday David, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever personally wished a hero of mine a happy birthday,and by the counter I think I’m the first, cos it’s late and I’ve just got in from my gig! Which is why I couldn’t commit my right arm to last weeks challenge, cos I’m a guitarist. Perhaps you could see it in your heart to tell your webmaster general chappie to grant me 2 tickets for Tuesday’s gig, I’ve tried every other way, and failed miserably. I’ll be in the shop first thing tomorrow afternoon to get my copy of the long awaited album. Best wishes, have a good’un but don’t get too hammered we want a good show on Tuesday. LW.
Happy Birthday David!
From one DG to another, I would just like to say that you truly are an inspiration to me. Your music lights up my world. It goes without saying, you are one of the best guitarists ever. Nobody can put so much emotion and power into a solo like you do, and because of you, my guitar playing has reached new levels. If I can someday play my Strat with even half your level of feeling, I’ll be a happy man. Your singing as well, it just blows me away every time, its simply mesmerising.
It was a dream come true when I won tickets to see you at The Mermaid on Tuesday (thanks FE!). I’ll be the half-Chinese guy with the black Pink Floyd t-shirt on!
I hope you have a wonderful birthday, see you on Tuesday!
PS. I agree with you mate, if I was to be re-incarcerated, it would not be as a goat!
Happy Birthday David!!!!
I truly hope you have a wonderful day- and thanks for giving your fans a present! Your album is absolutely beautiful- thanks for sharing your music with us. Can’t wait for the shows!!!
Chris
Happy 60th Birthdy Mr. Gilmour!
Thank you for all you have given to this wordl. Sooo much enjoyable music that touches the heart!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
Ana
From Brazil
happy birthday, your work’s given a little happiness to literally millions of people all over the world – not a bad way to be spending your life…
Happy Birthday to you…
Happy Birthday to you…
Happy Birthday Dear David…
Happy Birthday too you!!!!!
Hugs and Love to you on your big 60th!!!
Enjoy yourself!!!
Happy birthday to David! Thanks for all the music and well wishes for the upcoming tour!
Happy Birthday David!
Thanks for giving the rest of us the birthday present – hope the album and the tour provide a pleasant distraction from turning 60
The clocks are a tad slow here in Australia, so I’ll be celebrating in full force when OAI comes out on the 18th!
Really looking forward to the next album on your 61st!
cheers
Ben.
Hi david Happy Birthday your the main reason i sarted playing Guitars and your tabb books have put a smile on my face thanks for some realy great music have a great tour and Birthday doo
Alan
Dear David! Our DJ! However you will stay simply Dave forever for us. 60 times, no, 60 thousand times we shall cry out to you Happy birthday!!! I wish, that this nice smile never left your lips. That the guitar never left your golden & able fingers henceforth. Huge Love from Polly and us – your adorers. Wish you to celebrate your gold wedding at our life too. The seas and oceans of new music, silver tenderly voice and certainly health to you!!!And also mutual understanding of creative colleagues, from both parties. Perhaps recollect good old times. SHINE ON!!! GOD BLESS YOU!
Max from Moscow, whom never watched you in real alive on scene. So wanna… indeed :-)))
happy Birthday to the one & only David Gilmour :-)
Happy, Happy Birthday Mr. Gilmour. On behalf of my son Erik and I, we want to thank you for the wonderful music you have put out there. May you enjoy this day with your family and may you have many,many more.
Feliz Cumpleanos
Love your Fans
Erik B. 9yrs and Renee B. (His mom)
Fontana, Ca USA
We almost share a Birthday. I’m the 7th!
May your 60th be as happy for you as your music has made me for all these years!
To the administrator or any Gilmour fan. Does anyone know where the chords are for On An Island on the internet are? If not, is it possible to post them here? I would love to sit down and jam out “The Blue” on my piano…thanks,
Chris McKay
[Sorry, Chris. - Features Editor]
Happy Birthday David!!!!! I really want you to have the best time of your life. I hope you enjoy every day of your life, and I wish this day was a very special day, with your family, your friends and your guitars! Keep making that fantastic music and art you do, because it makes a lot of people really happy.
Thanks, and best wishes!
Hello David!
Happy birthday to the greatest musician I can think of. Today you’re 60 years, but I always say that: “age is just a number, and just a state of mind.” You are as old as you feel it inside you! Have a nice birthday, and congratulations for the new album due to be released today!
(If you think my english is bad, I’m sorry. I’m from Norway.)
David,
Happy birthday mate! Wicked record (from what I’ve heard). No doubt you willl hear a lot form us fans over the coming months, so enjoy the day with your family. I’ve been listening to you for 30 years since I was a kid, & no one plays the guitar quite like you.
Go well.
Peace
Jon
Good Works Dave!
The only thing, that’s outrageous to don’t have Montreal in your tour schedule!
Fan’s will not appreciate it!
So Dave, Have a Good Birthday!
Peace!
Happy Birthday, David! From Japan with Love. We are waiting for you and ‘On An Island’ .
congratulations and many happy returns david. (mr. gilmour to me i suppose) thanks for a lifetime of music and happiness. i’m sure it has made its way back to you and yours. see you in toronto. happiest of happy birthdays. make a wish.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!! Wishing you the best on your special day and many more to come. Thought you should know that I have a little David Gilmour in the family. His full name is David Gilmour Crane. He will be turning two years old in May. He is definitely the littlest and biggest fan that you will ever have. His favorite song is Out of the Blue and his second is On an Island. He will come running from the other end of the house when he hears your voice. We hope to come see you perform in the U.S. but I do not have tickets yet. I’m trying to win tickets from the different giveaways and contest, I will give it another week and then I will have to look into buying some from ticket brokers. quick question f. editor, would it be an injustice to David to buy tickets on EBAY? Because I would love to take my son to see him live being his littlest but biggest fan which would be my biggest dream to see him perform this type of venue in such a personal way.
[It's really not for me to say, Robert, but the only way eBay sellers will ever be stopped is, obviously, if people refuse to bid on their auctions. That said, I see your predicament. - Features Editor]
happy birthday david
Happy Birthday David!!!
Happy Birthday David!!!
What a way to spend your birthday, the official release of his AMAZING 3rd solo album and most importantly, he’s in excellent health.
Best wishes for the future
Paddy
Ireland
Happy Birthday David. I hope your day isnt to much of a spectacle. A pleasant Day with Polly your children, and friends is what I hope for you. I hope you have a nice simple little party with food, cake and drinks. Maybee a camp fire if its nice, send the children to bed and enjoy the night with your wife and friends. Thank you for the new material and tour. This day is yours, enjoy it!
Happy Birthday David! Thanks for giving so much to us all throughout the years!! Im going to buy On An Island the second my record store opens! And im looking forword to seeing you in Oakland this April!
Happy birthday Mr. Gilmour… A very special day 6th march.
Happy birthday to Gabriel Garcia Marquez too!! Sorry, but i love both.
Mr. Gilmour more. 
with love.
I would like to wish David a very happy 60th birthday and wish him many many more years of making wonderful music! Thank you David for all of the years of sharing your talents with us. I applaud you for being able to do it on your terms now and for doing what makes you and your family happy.
I will celebrate by going out an buying ‘On an Island’ on Tuesday (a day later than the lucky UK fans who will be able to get it on David’s birthday). The wait for it will soon be over!
Happy Birthday Sir David! Instead of us giving you a gift you rewarded us with On An Island release.
Thankyou so much!
Happy Birthday from the States,David! I raise my glass to you and your bride. Thanks for being a part of my life.
Happy Birthday David! Thanks again for all that you have given! I just left a donation at the Crisis web site for your birthday. It may be really big or really small, I looked up the dollar to pound conversion on google. Hope I got it right.
Many more,
Brian and Tanya Haase
Denver, Iowa
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!
Congratulations on yet another year of fantastic and meaningful music that is so appreciated by us all.
Good luck and have a blast at tomorrow’s show as well as those follow…We will be sure to!
Shelley
Happy Birthday David! As the years advance on us we reflect on past achievements and look forward to our future plans. I wish yourself, Polly and your family all the very best for this day and the future. Take care.
Kindest wishes,
Justin.
A very very happy birthday to you David. For many years I have thought you to be the greatest guitarist alive…and that all came about after seeing you and the rest of the band on June 23, 1973 at Olympia Stadium in Detroit (you had HAIR back then). I am most fortunate to have seen you and the band also in’77 and ’94 at Soldier Field in Chicago and the RCA Dome in Indianapolis respectively.
But it’s that show in Detroit that stands first and foremost in my memory…and is still the greatest performance I have ever seen, and trust me I have seen many over the years. So even though it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to see you perform this time around, I will always have the past performances locked in my mind forever and trust me I STILL discuss that Detroit show and can remember it as if it happened yesterday. That monstrous quadraphonic PA system and the crispness of the band just totally blew me away. The setlist as I remember it was:
1) Obscurred By Clouds
2) When You’re In
3) Echoes (magnificently done)
Band took a break
4) Entire “Dark Side of the Moon” with Dick Parry on sax
5) Encore: “One of These Days”
Above my stereo hangs your picture (framed I may add) and I still have the ticket stub from that show. Hard to believe that the ticket price was $5.00…four of us attended for a grand total of $20.00.
Again…Happy Birthday to you good sir and good luck with the tour and in the future. Wish I could be there just one more time!
Ro in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Hi,
Happy birthday David. Looking forward to the album when it reaches New Zealand.
I’ve been a fan since I was 10 (1975), you’ve done some great stuff over the years. You have a chance to do something even greater over the next few, don’t waste it.
pAUL.
Congratulations David! Have an awesome birthday.
May you have as much Happiness on your Birthday as your music has brought me over the years.
Happy 60th Birthday David!!!
Great pics!
!!!!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!!!HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY MY SWEET DAVID !!!YOU ARE A SPECIAL PERSON !!!THIS WORLD IS LUCKY TO OF HAD U IN IT!!DAVID,YOU R A SPECIAL GIFT FROM GOD!!JUST THINK HOW MANY HARD TIMES YOUR MUSIC HAS GOTTIN PEPOLE THRU…PEPOLE YOU HAVE NEVER MET!!WHAT A GREAT THING THAT IS .LOOK YOU HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN ME IN YOUR LIFE BUT THE MUSIC YOU HAVE WRTN HAS TCH MY HRT.YOU ARE A GREAT MAN!!HAPPY 60 MY LOVE!!!!I HOPE YOU HAVE 60 MORE!!XOXOXOXO
Happy birthday, David!!!
Be happy!
Happy Birthday, David!
Remember… 60 is the new 40.
It’s a truly beautiful album and I look forward to seeing you live soon. Thanks again for presenting the award to Phil with me last year.
All the best, Mark Cunningham
Congratulations David on yet again a remarkable album. It seems you planned this just right, not only to debut on your birthday, but having an interesting cosmos theme.
And will David have time to watch the total solar eclipse aboard the Astoria in Kastellorizon? It looks that he has a week break from the shows in Europe, till he heads to the States. Enjoy!
Happiest of Birthdays!
Zach
Happy Birthday, David! From Brazil!
Happy birthday David!!!
There’s nothing on the Earth I can give as a gift to You comparable to the gift You gave to me/us in all these years: Your music, Your voice, Your sound, You… Maybe I’ll find it on (the dark side of) the Moon or… on an Island…
But meanwhile I give You my presence and my emotions in Milan and exactly today the money I’ll use to buy Your new album (and with that You can buy “On An Island” dedicated from me to You hehehe!). I hope You appreciate this…
“Thank You very much indeed” and see You very soon!
Steve (from Majano (Ud) – Italy)
Happy Birthday David! Funny you should be giving US a birthday present on YOUR birthday, but I won’t complain! I hope you get to spend a bunch of time with Polly and the kids and I hope you get to put on the big surprised face when the kids give you some homemade gift that only a child can give! Enjoy your day!
Tim
David, have a wonderful birthday and best wishes for a fun and successful tour ahead. Looking forward to seeing the show in Chicago and I cant wait till Tuesday so I can buy my copy of the CD. The clips that have been posted sound great and I am so anxious to hear the full CD.
Best wishes and HAPPY 60YH BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
Bob Fasano….Worth,Illinois U.S.A.
Thanks you David, and may Our God give you many years of pleasure with your love ones. Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday David! Thanks for giving us all a lifetime worth of incredible music. Best of luck with the album and tour old friend. See you at Radio City!
Cheers,
Bill
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! BEST WISHES!
Happy Birthday Mr. David Gilmour!
Here’s to another 60!
Happy 60 years old Birthday David from ME and ALL Your Montreal, Quebec, Canada Fans and we are all hopping that you will add concert dates for Montreal after L.A. shows! Pleaseeeeeeeee
happy birthday david from across the pond in delaware.as spock says “live long and prosper”
Let me be the first of i’m sure many to wish the man himself Mr.Gilmour a happy and healthy 60th birthday. I Truly hope you enjoy yourself on this day, you deserve it! Just got the album, will post my comments tomorrow to be fair to others. Can’t wait to see you at the RCMH.
-Brian
David,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 60 years young. Enjoy your day. Hope you have a good time tomorrow. See you in Chicago.
Jeff in chicago
Thank you Polly and Ross from the gallery, WOW. Frost said it well in previous post WHO CARES, this is David’s creation. There are pictures of David by the way, 1984 About Faces Tour Program which includes 5 pics of David wearing a yellow tie with musical notes insignia. In short, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID, see you in Toronto again. Enjoy it well. Seeing the stage at the Kodiac theatre for the Oscars now. What a venue that will be in L.A. Peace all, and FED.
Happy birthday David! My grandfather always told me that the best years of your life start at 60. I can’t think of a better way for you to start off your “best years” than the release of a new album, and a tour. Hats off to you my friend. Life has just begun. Once again happy birthday, and I will see you in Chicago. Dan Brockert
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist who ever lived.
Some may say Clapton is God, and he is one. But David is the Supreme Being that oversees the Gods. Or something.
will i be the first to wish you a happy birthday from ste -adéle in canada. Dear David i am so happy to go to see you in toronto from all my family thank you for being what you are. we jus t love you and respect who you are . merciet bonne fete. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID, 60th is beautiful and give my regargs to polly and lovely kids… sylvie from canada.xxxxxxxxxxx
Happy Birthday David. See you in Chicago…. B
Happy Birthday, David, and congratulations on such a fantastic album! I live in sunny South Florida and was fortunate enough to buy your album on March 4th (the head manager of the record store was nice to me). As I listened on my boom box and read along with the lyrics, my ears went “WOW!” Cheers to you, Polly and all your fine crew for a job well done.
Happy Birthday Mr. Gilmour!
Here’s to many happy years to come with your family. Each day is truly a blessing.
Thanks for making your 60th a special one for us as well.
Shine on!
-Jon
Happy Birthday, David, from your biggest fan in Canada! I hope you have a super birthday! It is so great that you are giving us all such a wonderful gift on your own b’day! (I have to wait an extra day, but….) I haven’t been this excited for an album release since April 1994….
33 hours 31 minutes to go!
I’ve waited until today to post but have been lurking since day 1. Today is a special day.
Happy Birthday David,
A person with the gift to touch people’s souls
Wishing you many more.
Happy 60th David! You are looking as hot and sexy as ever! I hope your day is wonderful!
Love, and see you in Chicago,
Elizabeth
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!! Somehow we got the birthday present thing backwards. I didn’t get you anything, but you gave us a new CD. Can’t wait to pick it up tomorrow! Hope to see you somewhere in the northeast of the U.S. in April or May.
John
Happy Birthday Man!! See you in the Windy City! “Green Is The Colour” Cory
Happy Birth Day David,
Congrats on another year and thank you for making more wondeful music for all of us to enjoy. i hope you enjoy your birthday…i cant wait to see you in New York!
Happy birthday David! Your music has meant so much to me, and I hope you continue to craft it for many years to come. I look forward to getting your new disc tomorrow here in NYC and seeing you at Radio City on April 4th. I wish you the happiest of days, now and always.
Happy Birthday, guitarist of dreams. You are the sweetest. See you in Chicago!
Happy Birthday…and may you have many more…:)