David Gilmour - first two albums get remastered
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 06 June 2006

At long last, the promised reissues of David Gilmour's highly regarded first two solo albums, get their release next month, according to Sony's Music Store site.

Hitting the stores on the same day as Pink Floyd's PULSE DVD - July 10th/11th - the albums have been fully remastered. From the huge number of emails we had during David's recent tour, bemoaning the fact that none of the tracks from these albums were played live, it is obvious that these are going to popular CDs.

David Gilmour solo album cover
DAVID GILMOUR (1978)
David Gilmour solo album cover
ABOUT FACE (1984)
For those of you who haven't heard one/both of these, you are in for a treat. The first album has a bluesy feel, a contrast to David's work on the then recently released Animals album, whilst the second brings a more contemporary feel, a precursor to later period Floyd albums (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell).

We understand that the packaging is as before, and contrary to very early reports about these titles, there are NO additional tracks.

TRACK LISTINGS:

David Gilmour (first solo album, released 1978)

  1. Mihalis
  2. There's No Way Out Of Here
  3. Cry From The Street
  4. So Far Away
  5. Short And Sweet
  6. Raise My Rent
  7. No Way
  8. It's Deafinitely
  9. I Can't Breathe Anymore
About Face (second solo album, released 1984)
  1. Until We Sleep
  2. Murder
  3. Love on the Air
  4. Blue Light
  5. Out of the Blue
  6. All Lovers Are Deranged
  7. You Know I'm Right
  8. Cruise
  9. Let's Get Metaphysical
  10. Near the End

The albums can be ordered, for delivery upon release, through the following special links at Amazon:

Any item bought through these links at Amazon (not just Floyd items) helps with the running costs of the site, and we really appreciate it.

Our thanks to Terrence Reardon for the info!