David Gilmour is relieved that a deal was reached last month for Pink Floyd‘s catalog to Sony for $400 million.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, “I’m an old person. I’ve spent the last 40-odd years trying to fight the good fight against the forces of indolence and greed to do the best with our stuff that you can do. And I’ve given that fight up now.
“I’ve got my advance — because, you know, it’s not fresh new money or anything like that. It’s an advance against what I would have earned over the next few years anyway. But the arguments and fighting and idiocies that have been going on for the last 40 years between these four disparate groups of people and their managers and whatever — it’s lovely to say goodbye to.”
Floyd have retained their publishing rights, and Gilmour adds that if he hears one of their songs in a commercial, he’s “not gonna give a [crap].”
Gilmour started a five-night run at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Monday with show two tonight (Tuesday), followed by Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. He will perform on NBC’s Tonight Show Thursday.
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