McCartney Times

It exhibits the significance of The Beatles in that they inspired every prominent musician of their generation in one way or another. One group who have made no bones about the impact of the Liverpudlian quartet on them is Pink Floyd, with guitarist David Gilmour particularly enamoured by their work. Demonstrating the extent of Pink Floyd’s love for The Beatles is the account of drummer Nick Mason, who described John Lennon and his band as “God-like figures to us”. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal in 2011, he recalled a moment when his band were in close proximity to the Fab Four when recording their 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, at London’s Abbey Road Studios. At the same time, The Beatles were also in the building, laying down ‘Lovely Rita’, from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Source: How The Beatles shaped David Gilmour: “They were fantastic”