David Gilmour - Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen)

Premieres tomorrow, ... which is Friday! See also these posts.


A cover of Leonard Cohen's Who By Fire, performed by David [and Romany and Polly and Charlie!] Gilmour as part of the Von Trapped Family livestream series.

YES, I HAVE GHOSTS is the first new song from David Gilmour in 5 years and features the voice and harp playing of his daughter Romany. Available to stream / download now: https://smarturl.it/davidgilmour

The paperback of Polly Samson's A Theatre For Dreamers is out now: https://linktr.ee/pollysamson

[See also this podcast with Polly reading from her book and discussion with David: https://songwriterpodcast.com/samson]

The audiobook of Polly Samson's A Theatre For Dreamers is now released - produced by me and featuring some music I put together for it, including the premiere of a new song Yes, I Have Ghosts. https://bit.ly/AFTDaudiobook

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In June 2019, David raised $21.5m from the Christie's sale of more than 120 of his instruments and artefacts. He gave the proceeds to ClientEarth, a charity which uses the power of the law to protect the planet and its people.

"The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face," said David. "I hope that the sale of these guitars will help ClientEarth in their actions to use the law to bring about real change. We need a civilised world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond, in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung."

For more information on ClientEarth, their work and how you can help, please visit https://www.clientearth.org/:

We use the power of law to bring about systemic change that protects the earth for – and with – its inhabitants.

We work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on earth. We work to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, advising decision-makers on policy, and training legal and judicial professionals.

[Their US office is in Calabasas, CA!]

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