# How Phil Manzanera reconnected with David Gilmour, leading to Pink Floyd’s final album

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/how-phil-manzanera-reconnected-with-david-gilmour-leading-to-pink-floyds-final-album/
- Published: 2026-11-15T05:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T05:19:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Louder
- Original article: https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/phil-manzanera-davif-gilmour-pink-floyd
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- MiniDiscs helped renew Gilmour’s solo career.
- Manzanera helped shape *The Endless River*.
- The 2014 album honoured Richard Wright.

## Summary

Phil Manzanera says cataloguing David Gilmour’s forgotten MiniDisc recordings helped restart the Pink Floyd guitarist’s solo career and began a decade-long collaboration. The work led to Gilmour’s 2006 album *On an Island* and later contributed to *The Endless River*, Pink Floyd’s final studio album.

Manzanera and Gilmour had known each other since their early careers and first worked together on “One Slip” for 1987’s *A Momentary Lapse of Reason*. Manzanera spent six weeks selecting and assembling recordings from the *Division Bell* sessions into a four-part structure; after a delay of nearly a year, Gilmour added guitar and Nick Mason drums. Released in 2014, *The Endless River* was conceived as a tribute to keyboardist Richard Wright.

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