David Gilmour says he was “bullied” into making final Pink Floyd album ‘The Endless River’

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David Gilmour has claimed he was “bullied” into making the final Pink Floyd album ‘The Endless River’ in a new interview.The former Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist opened up about making the final album with the band in 2014 – a work that arrived 20 years after their last work on ‘The Division Bell’, which was meant to be the band’s final goodbye to fans.Work on ‘The Endless River’ included contributions from drummer Nick Mason and some archived recordings from keyboardist Richard Wright who passed in 2008.

Former bassist Rogers Waters had left the band in 1985 and did not return for any of these recording sessions.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Gilmour explained that while recording ‘The Division Bell’, they’d produced many hours worth of ambient music that was originally meant to make up a new instrumental record.

However, when this release never happened, Gilmour claims their record label then insisted that the ambient recordings were released.Gilmour explained: “I’ll tell you: When we did that album, there was a thing that Andy Jackson, our engineer, had put together called ‘The Big Spliff’ – a collection of all these bits and pieces of jams [from the sessions for 1994’s ‘The Division Bell’] that was out there on bootlegs.“A lot of fans wanted this stuff that we’d done in that time, and we thought we’d give it to them.