How 'Fat Old Sun' Marked David Gilmour’s Arrival as a Songwriter and Its Legendary Live Guitar Solos

David Gilmour’s first solo writing credit on a Pink Floyd album wasn’t a space-rock epic—it was a gentle, pastoral number called “Fat Old Sun.” Released on Atom Heart Mother in 1970, it showed Gilmour could write more than riffs. The lyrics are a nostalgic, sun-drenched snapshot (“The fire’s a-ragin’ / The rose I’m savin’”), and the arrangement builds from fingerpicked acoustic guitar into