Live in Gdańsk
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| Live album by David Gilmour | ||||
| Released | 22 September 2008 Specific regions are detailed below |
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| Recorded | 26 August 2006 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, Blues-rock, Symphonic rock | |||
| Length | 2:28:58 (2-CD version), 7:40:58 (4-disc 2-CD/2-DVD version), 8:58:24 (5-disc 3-CD/2-DVD version) 2:58:47 (iTunes version) |
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EMI (UK) Columbia (U.S.) |
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| Producer | David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| BBC | (favourable) |
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| The Guardian | |
| IGN | (8.4/10) |
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Live in Gdańsk is a live album by David Gilmour. It is a part of his On an Island project which includes an album, tour, DVD, and live album. It was released on 22 September 2008. A David Gilmour Signature Series Fender Stratocaster was released at the same time.
It is a recording of the final show of his On an Island tour in 2006, where he played to an audience of 50,000 at the Gdańsk Shipyard to celebrate the founding of the Solidarity trade union. The show featured the song "A Great Day for Freedom", from the Pink Floyd album The Division Bell (1994) and was the only show of the tour to feature it. It was last performed by Gilmour during his semi-acoustic shows in 2002.
It's also the final Pink Floyd-related recording to feature Richard Wright, who died on 15 September 2008, one week before the album's official release. Gilmour and his band were backed by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner. Leszek Możdżer was featured on piano as a special guest.
The six different available editions of Live in Gdańsk are:
The DVD that comes with the 3, 4, and 5 disc sets allowed the purchaser to download 12 additional tracks free of charge via a web-pass. (As of May 2010, this content is no longer accessible.) These tracks included all 12 tracks on the bonus CD included with the 5 disc version, and the song "Wot's...Uh the Deal?" that was performed at the concert but not included on the album itself. The bonus tracks were released one per month as follows:
Below are the official track listings for the different editions of the album.
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