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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has told Rolling Stone that he is working on a new solo album, which will be his first since “On an Island” (2006).

Gilmour said:

It’s coming along very well. There are some sketches that aren’t finished, and some of them will be started again. There’s a few months’ work in it yet. I’m hoping to get it out this following year. Then I’m hoping to do an old man’s tour, not a 200-date sort of thing.

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David Gilmour has said that Pink Floyd’s forthcoming album, “The Endless River,” will be the band’s last.

Gilmour told BBC Radio 6:

This is the last thing that will be out from us. There will not be any sort of follow-up to this… It’s a shame, but this is the end.

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Pink Floyd’s recent 20th anniversary 7-disc reissue of “The Division Bell” will be followed-up in October with the release of a new album called “The Endless River”. The new album will be based on material worked on at the 1994 sessions that produced “The Division Bell”.

The news of the new album came via the Twitter account of Polly Samson, who is the partner of David Gilmour:

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Pink Floyd are celebrating the 20th anniversary of “The Division Bell” with a multi-disc box set and vinyl release.

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Recordings by Janis Joplin (with Big Brother and the Holding Company), Simon & Garfunkel, Chubby Checker, and The Ramones are among the latest additions to the Libary of Congress’ National Recording Registry.

Every year, the National Recording Preservation Board selects 25 recordings annually that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and are at least 10 years old.

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