Why David Gilmour Said 'Pink Floyd Is Over' in 2015 and Refused to Reunite

In a 2015 interview with the BBC, David Gilmour made it clear that Pink Floyd was finished for good. His blunt reasoning: keyboardist Rick Wright had died in 2008, and Gilmour saw no point in carrying on without him. “We’ve done all we can do,” he said, calling the band “a spent force” and noting that the 2014 album The Endless River was written as a tribute to Wright, not a new beginning.

Gilmour also pointed to the lack of creative chemistry with Roger Waters as a secondary factor. Even if Waters wanted a reunion – which he’d hinted at during the same period – Gilmour said he had no interest. “Life is too short,” he explained, adding that he preferred to focus on his solo work rather than revisit old tensions. For Gilmour, the emotional and musical core of Pink Floyd was gone with Wright, and no amount of nostalgia could bring it back.