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Many Pink Floyd<\/a> fans would quite passionately claim that \u2018Comfortably Numb\u2019 is the greatest rock song ever written. <\/p>\n Poignant lyrics of personal isolation are layered over the top of a melody built on luscious rock orchestration, before descending into a quite\u00a0mesmerising solo from David Gilmour<\/a>. It\u2019s anthemic in all the best ways and has set somewhat of a benchmark for music after it. Be it in rock, pop or even electronic music, musicians have taken that formula of tension build and release and taken it into new realms.<\/p>\n While it is rightly credited as a Pink Floyd song, many attribute its brilliance to David Gilmour. For how iconic that solo is, he is often heralded as the de facto beholder of this now iconic tune and is often the name on everybody\u2019s lips when asked to name an influence. But while his style in the Floyd was largely forward-thinking, the influences he calls his own were rooted in tradition.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think the same sources are there that have always been there at the heart of everything I do,\u201d he explained when asked about the root of his virtuosity style. He continued, \u201cI don\u2019t spend much time now listening to new music in that obsessive way that I did then, and there are precious few moments nowadays that leap on me and knock me over like those early records did.\u201d<\/p>\n He elaborated on what those precious records exactly were, proving that most of the greats who dominated the 1970s all came back to one simple sound: blues. Gilmour explained, \u201cBill Haley\u2019s \u2018Rock Around the Clock\u2019 was the first single that I bought, and Elvis Presley\u2019s \u2018Heartbreak Hotel\u2019<\/a> was a major thing as well, and still every time I listen to it, I think, \u2018How did they put something as perfect as that together?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Both songs represent a key grounding point for Gilmour. They are absolutely packed with a simple but profound sense of emotion, and so remind Gilmour, Pink Floyd or any of their \u201870s contemporaries that wherever their sonic experimentation takes them, the pursuit of emotion can\u2019t be left behind if they are seeking musical greatness.<\/p>\n