Someone’s birthday…
Today is David’s birthday, so please feel free to burst into song, blow up some balloons or just leave a birthday greeting below by clicking on the ‘Comments’ link.
For everyone’s sake, please try to keep your message of a reasonable length. There were more than 1,300 posted last year, and I certainly wasn’t the only one to read every single one of them.
David and Polly read the blog regularly and were incredibly touched by last year’s well wishes. We’d love to see more this year. (Come on, make me earn my money…)
It’s also a year since ‘On An Island’ was released. Hasn’t the year just flown by? Your thoughts, as always, are more than welcome.
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish David a very happy birthday on behalf of everyone at davidgilmour.com. Have a great day, David.
WOOOHOOO!!! Happy birthday David!
Ok, you missed this bday with another album out…i forgive you…but dont let that happen next time, OK!?!?! haha…
Cheers! Have a good one!
Heureux double anniversaire, M. Gilmour, le vôtre et celui de votre opus ‘On An Island’ !
Donc, ce soir, nous sabrerons deux fois le champagne en votre honneur à la maison…
Ma famille et moi, souhaitons tout le bonheur du monde à votre famille à vous !
Michèle
Happy Birthday to you! I Hope you have a great day with your family & friends.
Hope the new album will be out soon! ;-)
It was great to see you back on stage last year and I hope for more…
See you soon.
Philipp
Happy birthday David!
I wish you good health, luck and a lot of joy with tour family! And of course we are looking forward to some new music from you!
And if you come one day in Czech Republic we would be very glad here:)
Take care,
Honza J-dro Jaderny (Casual Wasters), Czech Republic
Happy Birthday, David !
Thank you for OAI and the whole of last year’s experience.
Have a great day,
Ralph
I remember the day exactly one year ago. Its was an ice cold day up here in Norway. I went downtown and bought the new solo album OAI. Then I got straight home again and listened trough it a couple of times.
The impression was mixed: Some songs like castellarizon, on an island, take a breath and where we start immediately became favorites. Though it wasn`t like I had expected. But one year later I find this as a very good warming and sensitive album, the best solo album you ever made David!
Keep up the good work David and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! From one of your fans
Happy Birthday David!!! You`re cool.
Happy Birthday David.
Doesnt seem a year ago that I was so looking forward to the Mermaid and being snowed in Inverness. Oh what fun. Best time ever though.
I will raise a glass and a glass and a glass and a glass and a glass and a glass and a glass to your continued good health.
Fashion dictates the focus on celebrating “special” birthdays such as 18,21,40,60 etc..But each and every birthday is worthy of celebrating no matter who or how old you are. In this way we are all equal. But thankfully not the same
Ian Pearson
Happy birthday Mr.Gilmour and thanks for everything.
We wish you all the best from Czech Republic.
Happy Birthday David!
I hope you’ll never stop playing your guitar and your music, alone or with Pink Floyd!!!
Happy birthday Dave, and thank you for everything you did, and for everything you’ll do in future!!!
Thanks
Lang zal David leven, lang zal David leven, lang zal David leven in de gloria, in de gloriaaaa, in de gloriaaaaa!!!!! Hieperdepiep hoeraaaa!!
Well, a little birthday song in Dutch!
Happy birthday David! May it be a good year!!
Greetz,
Bas.
PS: On our national radio station they said David turned 63 today, I thought 61??
[Yes, 61 today. The Pointy Stick Brigade are on their way. - Features Editor]
hello
happy birthday david, come back soon
Hello David,
We wish you a Happy Birthday and good health for the future.
Please visit Germany soon for some concerts!
Happy birthday, David! I hope you, Polly, and the rest of your family have a great day.
All the best.
Hello David. Happy Birthday from Norway.
And thank you for a fantastic concert in Royal Albert Hall May 29th.
Happy birthday David, and thanks for your music
best wishes from Czech Republic
bery
Happy birthday David, have a great day. Tanti auguri.
Ciao ciao
Roberto
Happy Birthday David. Have a good one.
BEST WISHES DAVE. THANKS FOR GIVING ME 30 YEARS OF MUSIC BLISS.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS FELLA
Happy birthday
In Mexico we miss you and we remembered it from the 94 tour Pink Floyd
Luck and Great Happy Birthday.
PD: RETURN PLEASE TO MEXICO!!!!
Dear Dear David
Do so hope you and Polly have a lovely day
Thanks for everything
heather
In your azure gaze there is the limpidity of a noble soul
in your smile there is serenity and gratification
in your fingers there is the harmony of your musical universe
in your voice there is a powerful sweetness
in your music there are immense emotions of the endless magic of Life.
Happy Birthday Sir David Gilmour! Have a wonderful day with your family and friends surrounded.
Elisabetta
Cheers Beers David.
Have a wonderful birthday. Thank you for sharing your music with us.
Good morning FEd,
What is that snippet of music over on the main site, please ? It sounds almost as haunting as Castellorizon.
Greetings,
Ralph
[It's just one of many snippets that David let us share with you. Glad you like it. - Features Editor]
Happy Birthday form Mexico city
Para mi también es un día especial y no porque cumpla años, sino porque hoy veré a Roger Waters y estoy casi seguro que durante el concierto pedirá al auditorio un saludo de cumpleaños para usted.
Aquí se le estraña desde hace ya 12, casi 13 años que tocó aquí en México city (Pink Floyd tour 94).
PS. Por favor vuelva a tocar en méxico, se le extraña.
happy birthday david, i love your music.
Best wishes for your birthday, David.
Good to see you still in action.And thank you for all the music you brought to your fans – from your earlier works to last solo-album.
To David,
Happy 61;
Gee, this blog is fun!
Full of well-wishers and such;
for a man who’s given so much.
Hope your day is a great one!
From the South Bay of California to your side of the great pond….HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
(-:Tomi Sue:-)
A year ago I walk with OAI in the hand and the tickets for Milan’s concert in the pocket.
A year later I only want to thank you for all.
Happy birthday from Viterbo!!!
A very happy birthday Mr. Gilmour. And thank you so much for making music.
It’s the first time I write here, but I read you everyday…
I just wanted to wish David a very happy birthday, and thank him for the wonderful music of “On an island”, that I bought exactly one year ago…
obviously hoping that more wonderful music will be released soon… ;-)
Ciao!
mauro
Happy Birthday David !
Best wishes to you and your family. We’re all waiting for a new solo record… or maybe with the other band too (who knows…). Hope to see you live again !
Another year of great music. I had the pleasure to listen twice “Echoes” live, and I wasn’t there, I was in Pompeii! It was a mystic experience, you upset my life one more time…
Happy birthday David!
Edoardo
Hey Mr.D! have a veeeeeery nice day. And not just today
Hello there from germany.
Mr. David Gilmour, what should i say without repeating others? You be our god for all times. Your music and your personality will always beside me…
Wish you good luck in every thing you do!
Joyeux Anniversaire David!
Make 2007 a great music year, I would like to see you in France!
Happy Birthday David and thanks for making my 40th a night to remember…last night at the RAH.
Cheers
Paul
Happy Tuesday,
Happy birthday David !!. Enjoy your day.
Is it really a year that has gone by since all those activities were taking place.
Was it coincidence that ‘Live at Abbey Road’ was replayed this morning at 12:15am. Knackered now but well worth staying up for.
Pete – Coventry
David !! All polish fans wish You: Happy Birthday !!
Hapy Birthday David.
Saw you in concert last year and watched C4 with you and the team at Abbey Road last night, fantastic.
Enjoy your day.
Ciao
Buon Compleanno DAVIDE!!!!
Happy birthday, David.
Wishing you a wonderful day with your family and friends !!
Dear Dave,
Wow ….. What an incredible year it has been since the previous B-day announcement on your website.
My wife and I seen you at the Kodak Theatre, Jay Leno, and at the Gibson Ampitheatre last year for some of the most spectacular performances I have ever seen you perform.
I cannot wait to get a copy of the “Remember That Night” because for me it was truly something I wish I could have shared with so many of my friends but now they can enjoy what we seen and heard which will be awesome. I can’t wait to share my copy of the DVD with them and to get their reaction…priceless….
There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t day-dream about the music and my previous adventures relating to Pink Floyd and all of your previous work and shows.
Thank you so much for the incredible music that you have crafted and shared with the world. The world is a much better place because of the music that you shared with everyone.
I hope that for your birthday that you do something that really makes you happy and that you can share it with your family and friends.
To good health and cheer for the upcoming year!
Gregg Hooker
Ciao Dave and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I WANT to see you playin’ guitar again here in Italy… maybe with the other three guys, you know what I mean ;-)
Christian
Happy Birthday,
May all your wishes come true. Have a very nice Party with all your friends.
Andreas from Geesthacht (near Hamburg), Germany
Hi David,
Greetings from Pakistan. Happy Birthday man! I know you’ve never toured this part of the earth (Yes Yes! its a part of this planet earth with lots and lots of music and everything else..) but if you ever plan to, you know countless fans are always waiting for you…
Party on…
Hasan Zulnoon
P.S. & don’t you even think about retiring from music (which also includes Pink Floyd projects haha!) Give us more man! Sing me something new…
David,
All I can say is that I wish you a very warm, prosperous and happy birthday.
Thank you for such a wonderful album and of course, your deep and emotional guitar playing which never fails to move me.
Best regards.
Julie
hi david
Everyone here just wish u a happy bday, so i wish the same too, but i am sure u hope to read more interesting and original things
Today i choose to talk about your last 2006 concerts compared to the Waters ones.
These last year you did a important step, and i think that u did it successfully : you are finaly david Gilmour, and not “only” the guitarist of the pink floyd. Your new cd is different from the Floyd material, your concerts are different too, without big screens and clips like u did in Pulse, i can say that u turned the page without denied the past.
For his part, roger can’t go foward, if you see his concerts, he still uses big screens with floyds clips, lot of effects , look like Pulse, and plays the complete DSOTM , like u did in your 1994 tour… He still tries to give his political opinion inside his music “roger we dt need thought control…”
He works with 3 guitarists Andy Fairweather-Low, Snowy White and Dave Kilminster, with the hope to reach ur creativity level. Kilminster finally managed to have your sound and copy your solo note by note . if you listen to the HAVE A CIGAR that he plays in concert, you would think that u listen to the cd, same sound, same bends etc… It means that roger didnt accept, until today, that you left him, all he does is just to copy the music u did when u played together.
i think for this bday, it’s the best gift. I know you dt hate him, but all this proves that he had no rights to be the Boss, and you took the right choice when you decided to leave.
Thx for all the charity acts that u do david, we knows only the visible part of the iceberg, your first quality is your incredible generosity, only after comes your awesome musical talent.
My bday comes soon, i like gifts too, plz edit the gdansk footage on dvd, in 2008, the fans are always hungry
take care, col
Hi David I want to wish a very happy birthday!
My english is poor so I can’t write to you all I wish. I can only say, THANK YOU for the emotions you gave (& give) me with your beautiful music.
Love and happiness to you and all your family! HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE DAVE!!
Marco from Turin
Happy Birthday David!!
On An Island is running right now – great Album -thanx for all the new tracks and keep on with your music! Still the finest Gutarplayer on the Planet!!!!!
sunshine here in austria – have a nice day
werner
HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Rome, David!!!
Fabio
Greetings from Beijing
I thought i would not get a chance to wish Dave a very happy Birthday from a fellow piscean. im sure your day will be great as you have your family around you.
Im a long way from home at the moment and it feels like it, take care dont eat to much cakey and any presents you dont like you can pass on to me. fed has my details.
Damian
Hello david,
Happy birthday
Joyeux anniversaire
Feliz compleaño
Le petit lion
a french fan
Happy Birthday to you,David!!! and happy birthday to the album,too!
In Italy it’s 9.53 a.m. and I’m listening to ‘Smile’…I hope you have a great day David,surely with your nice family.
All my love
Emi
A birthday wish to you David from my family and me all the way from South Africa.
Thank you for all the years of truly inspirational music.
Happy birthday
thanks for OAI and a great concert at the RAH on May 29th. can’t wait for the DVD
Mal
Happy birthday Mr. Gilmour!
Thanks for giving us On An Island + the tour + dvd’s etc etc…. Looking forward to more new music in the future!
Enjoy your day!
Cheers!
JT
Happy birthday David, Thanks for the music.
Happy birthday ! I wish you the best for the year to come.
Thank you for the wonderful concert in Vienne on July 2006 !
Happy Birthday David!
Hope you have a great day – and many thanks for all the wonderful years of music that you’ve provided, and to many more to come!
Johnny.
all the best David.
you made my year last year so make your own year and enjoy all you have. you deserve all the praise you are getting.
once again thanks i was thinking the other day when i went to see you at knebworth 90 i had to sit throgh Cliff Richard. now thats devotion for you.
all the best David. i would only sit through Cliff Richard for you. have a good day
from another italian brick…very happy birthday, David…Diego…
Yes, the year just flew by. But with “On An Island” always on the air, the flight was unique and wonderful, every day more than the previous ones.
Thank you David, and have a unique and wonderful day on your 61st birthday.
My best and most sincere wishes. With infinite love and esteem.
Have you come to the age when people at concerts are shouting, “do you remember whateversong?” instead of “can you play?” :-)
Happy Birthday!
Un très bel anniversaire, Cher David.
Have a good b’day big man. keep rockin’!!
Happy your birthday dear David. I love you and pinkfloyd.
Mohammad,Iran
Happy Birthday Mister Gilmour!
Last year we have sung “happy birthday to you” in Hamburg. This year will be no gigs. Bad for us, good for you.
David, have a wonderful day with your family and friends!
All the best for your life and health!
Best Wishes from Berlin
Ina
Happy Birthday David.
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since OAI was released but what a year it’s been. I hope you keep making music for many more years to come.
Have a great day.
Happy Birthday, David! Thank you for all the great music. Best wishes for you and your family.
Love
Henry from Dresden/Germany
OLYMPIA…
You were there last year and “happy birthday” song also. Each time I listen the song, each time I think about it singing at l’Olympia march 2006.
Happy birthday David. Bon anniversaire.
Je te souhaite tous les bonheurs possibles, et j’espère vous revoir toi et tes amis sur scène prochainement, pour tout ce que tu partages avec nous.
Merci
Félicien (Chantilly)
Happy Birthday!!!!
best wishes. and i will add the ever so nice, PLEASE TOUR THE USA AGAIN SOON!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
have a great day Mr Gilmour, thank you for your hard work
All the best for your 61st year.
Warm Regards
Robyns
By the way saw the live at abbey road programme last night (stayed up till midnight). It was great. I thought it was so nice to see the unique collaboration between Polly and David and the stunning results.
Happy Birthday David!!!
I’m russian (St-Petersburg). Thank you so much for “On An Island” and all YOUR MUSIC!!!
Very best wishes
Pavel (Pablito)
PS. When we gonna get a chance to see you in Russia?
Happy Birthday David, hope you’re having fun. Best wishes from Romania.
BTW, when will we get to see you here?
Wow, what an amazing piece of music playing today. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Oh, and come and play Brora in the Highlands – I’m sure most of the villagers would flock to the local football park!
Only kidding. I know, I’m bad.
Happy Birthday David! and thousands of these days!
I would like to thank you ’cause your music has always been a very important support in my life..
I hope you’ll read this message of a huge fan of yours from Italy!
Riccardo Bertola
Happy Birthday David. Hope it´s “nice to be 61″.
And have an “ausgezeichnet” day, with your family.
Andreas
Happy Birthday David, have a great day
All the way from not so sunny Liverpool
John
Maturing like a fine wine David. Thanks so much and wishing you a very happy birthday!
happy birthday David! thanks for you wonderful music n may the future be spactacular for u n family..! im ur asian fan.
Happy birthday David!!!!
Best regards from Arnfinn, Even and Christine from Norway.
Happy birthday David!
It was an absolutely amazing year, thanks again!
Polly, don’t let your husband retire yet, just keep the music going and David will stay young & happy!
Cheers, love and peace, to the kids as well!
Ernest… from The Netherlands,
because it’s your birthday: Arsenal should beat PSV, I think ;-\
[What David really wants is for Liverpool to beat Barcelona again... - Features Editor]
Happy birthday Mr. David. Thanks for a wonderful music.
Sto lat, odśpiewane po polsku
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID
From the psychedelic Italy…very happy birthday, David!
Diego
Happy birthday David Gilmour.
Love and joy
.
Happy Birthday David, I hope to see you again in Italy….three times in the last year were not enough
Buon compleanno e saluti da Milano
Marco
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!!
I wish you this wonderful sunny day will be the perfect frame of a very special day for you. (but first I have to hope you have, in Uk, the same sunny day we have here).
Enjoy and, from here, thanks for all you gave us in these years.
I could give you back an holiday in the Latium country side. Fantastic italian meals included!
I am also sure David will have a lot of fun reading the posts and looking the fantastic cards you prepared for him. Becky, the prize of the best birthday card is your, for the moment!
L!
Happy Birthday David Gilmour! Best Wishes!
Buon Compleanno David!
Last year you were celebrating for OAI being published, that was one of the best albums you ever gave us, with a terrific tour.
I saw you in Amsterdam and in Florence, and I’ll never forget those nights.
Before that we have to go back to 1988 in Rome, and it was nice to find almost the same band members here now.
It was a year full of emotions, and this website is becoming better and better.
All the best and take care.
Happy Birthday and many thanks for the superb music.
Peter
Happy Bday David! The older .. The better ..
Shine On!
Ramesh
Happy Birthday, have a wonderful day and thank you.
Lorraine & Samantha
Hi David, Polly and family,
Happy Birthday and best wishes for more great lyrics to inspire generations to come, your own family and their generations to come.
Have enjoyed your concerts at the Albert Hall (May 30th and 31st), then meeting you at the Hotel Gritti Palace (August 4th) where I stayed and presented my deep felt feelings for a failed scaffolding, but enjoyed seeing again the following week-end when flying was just suddenly too dangerous.
Finally through your lyrics and Zbigniew Preisner classical vision of your music, I rediscovered Poland with my sweetest Polish partner Magda and loved an extended experience in the crowd of people who deeply feel for your wisdom.
Happy Birthday with many happy returns (and may I say, there should be more people like you to lead countries agreeably spirited by a peaceful mind).
Happy Birthday! Can’t wait to see you back in Italy
Love
David
Je te souhaite un bon anniversaire.
Philippe (Haute Savoie)
What can one say? Happy birthday, may the next year bring you many new wonders…
Oh and happy anniversary to OAI!
All the best,
Steve