{"id":806216,"date":"2020-04-09T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=980896"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:08:40","slug":"flashback-david-gilmour-covers-beatles-across-the-universe-and-revolution-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-david-gilmour-covers-beatles-across-the-universe-and-revolution-in-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: David Gilmour Covers Beatles\u2019 \u2018Across the Universe\u2019 and \u2018Revolution\u2019 in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Gilmour<\/a> made a rare public appearance earlier this week when he played two Leonard Cohen songs at the digital book-launch event<\/a> for A Theatre for Dreamers,<\/em> a new novel written by Polly Samson, his wife and longtime co-lyricist. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties, and Cohen, who lived there at the time, is a character.<\/p>\n

It was a relatively unique chance to see Gilmour play music written by another artist. His solo shows going all the way back to his first tour in 1984 have always concentrated exclusively on his own work and Pink Floyd classics. He only really breaks from this for special occasions like a TV appearance with Kate Bush<\/a>, the chance to play guitar in Pete Townshend\u2019s 1985 supergroup Deep End,<\/a> or the time in 2010 he duetted with Roger Waters<\/a> on a tongue-in-cheek rendition of the Teddy Bears\u2019 1959 tune \u201cTo Know Him, Is to Love Him\u201d to poke fun at their combative relationship.<\/p>\n

Another exception took place on June 21st, 2002, at the Cowdray House in West Sussex, England, when he appeared at a special Beatles tribute show to raise money for the Tibet House Trust and other charities. He was part of an incredible lineup that included Ringo Starr, Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford, Queen drummer Roger Taylor, Bob Geldof, Donovan, Lulu, Paul Carrack, Faces drummer Kenny Jones, and many others.<\/p>\n

This was an under-the-radar show that never aired on TV, but a fan did manage to capture video of Gilmour singing \u201cAcross the Universe\u201d and \u201cRevolution,\u201d complete with a ripping guitar solo. The clip ends with snippets of Paul Carrack tackling \u201cIt Won\u2019t Be Long,\u201d \u201cAll My Loving,\u201d and \u201cLet It Be.\u201d You can check it out here.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully there\u2019s professional footage of this entire event in a vault somewhere. It would make for an incredible release. In the meantime, Gilmour is planning to appear at a second streaming event this week to promote A Theatre for Dreamers.<\/em> We can only guess at what surprise covers he plans to break out this time.<\/p>\n

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David Gilmour made a rare public appearance earlier this week when he played two Leonard Cohen songs at the digital book-launch event for A Theatre for Dreamers, a new novel written by Polly Samson, his wife and longtime co-lyricist. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties, and Cohen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 18:12:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}