DAVID GILMOUR REISSUES 'ON AN ISLAND' AS CD/DVD COMBO
On An Island was released in March, and it entered the Billboard album chart at Number Six. Gilmour told us he worked on the music for the better part of a decade: "Yes, a couple of years this one's been in, in the pipeline directly. I've obviously been writing the stuff that it comes from over the last 10 years -- just jotting down little ideas and, and then popping them away into a place where I hopefully won't forget them forever, but come back to them later."
The songs featured on the On An Island DVD are: "On An Island," This Heaven," "Smile," "Take A Breath," "High Hopes," and "Comfortably Numb," from AOL; "Astronomy Domine" from Abbey Road; and "Take A Breath" from Royal Albert Hall.
The AOL Sessions material is still online at music.aol.com.
As much as I liked the original CD, I have real mixed emotions about the re-release of this as a re-package in such a short period of time. This smells like a money grabbing move to me.
As always, comments are welcome.