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Pink Floyd\u2019s David Gilmour<\/a> has built a unique career that has earned him legendary status within the music industry, leaving little room for regrets.<\/p>\n Considering everything that Gilmour has achieved, which goes way beyond even his own wildest expectations, he doesn\u2019t stay awake at night pondering what could have been if he did things differently. After all, Gilmour is not only one of the most talented guitarists of all time, but also a songwriter of the highest order.<\/p>\n He\u2019s still a music fan, though. Therefore, naturally, even Gilmour can\u2019t help looking over his shoulder<\/a> and wishing he had written other songs by other artists, with one song from 1967, in particular, standing out to him as the perfect piece of music.<\/p>\n In 1967, Gilmour was still yet to be a permanent part of Pink Floyd, and it wasn\u2019t until December of that year that he began playing with the group amid Syd Barrett\u2019s ailing health. Earlier that year, he\u2019d been in France attempting to embark on a musical career, which had gone nowhere, before the lifeline from Pink Floyd arrived that proved to be life-changing.<\/a><\/p>\n While his early attempts in the music industry didn\u2019t lead to vast acclaim, it remains a golden chapter of his life. It was a remarkable time for British music, and for Gilmour, there were few better bands around than The Kinks, who he credited as creating \u201cthe perfect pop song\u201d.<\/p>\n The band are rightly revered as one of Britain\u2019s finest, with Ray Davies able to act like a bristling bard of Carnaby Street,<\/a> which paired beautifully with his brother Dave Davies\u2019 joyful riffs. For Gilmour, nothing in their oeuvre matches \u2018Waterloo Sunset\u2019.<\/p>\n Gilmour has spoken about this track on a number of occasions, including on the BBC\u2019s Desert Island Discs in 2003, when he listed it as one of the eight songs that he couldn\u2019t live without.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n More than a decade later, Gilmour told Uncut in 2015 how it transports him home to London whenever he listens, no matter where he is in the world, explaining, \u201cOn a lovely warm beach, to listen to this in \u2018somewhere else\u2019 sunset, and missing London would be a wonderful moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in his concert special, Remember That Night \u2013 Live At The Royal Albert Hall, <\/a>Gilmour spoke again<\/a> about the special place that the song has in his heart, revealing:<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, the perfect pop song is \u2018Waterloo Sunset\u2019 by the Kinks. I would have loved to have written that.\u201d<\/p>\n The track captures the unmatched brilliance of London on a wonderful summer day, which no song has come close to doing before or since. While the story behind \u2018Waterloo Sunset\u2019 has been hotly contested over the years, with Terry and Julie in the song reportedly inspired by the romance between British actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, it\u2019s a love letter to London first and foremost.<\/p>\n The true spark to write the song actually came from Davies\u2019 sister, who was planning on emigrating with her boyfriend, which put the songwriter in a wistful mood about London<\/a>. He later clarified that it was \u201ca fantasy about my sister going off with her boyfriend to a new world, and they were going to emigrate and go to another country.\u201d<\/p>\n Whatever sparked Davies to write \u2018Waterloo Sunset\u2019 is besides the point in the grand scheme of things; the meaning that the listener attaches to it is more important. Everyone has their own interpretation of \u2018Waterloo Sunset\u2019, even if they\u2019ve never set foot in London, but have their own special place in mind that\u2019s paradise to them, which is why it has such an everlasting appeal.<\/p>\n
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