David Gilmour was brought in to Pink Floyd as a lead guitarist to play for Syd Barrett when the later was having one of his episodes. One night the band decided to not pick up their leader for a gig, and Gilmour took over the role of lead guitarist and joint lead singer with Roger Waters. With this, Syd was outed from the band and the classic Pink Floyd line up was formed, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright. David Gilmour became the main music composer for the band with Waters focusing on the concepts and lyrics.
Where would music be without David Gilmour? Would Pink Floyd have continued to exist beyond their debut album? Unlikely seeing as Syd's downward spiral would have held the band down; as much as he was amazing and they loved him, he wasn't up to the task. So in came David Gilmour to bring the band forward to modest success, you know, mildly popular albums like Dark Side of the Moon (the 2nd best selling album of all time), Wish You Were Here, and The Wall, not to mention all of their other fantastic albums. Pink Floyd created a genre of music, were champions of the concept album, and have influenced more bands then Gilmour has years under his belt. Without David Gilmour this may have never happened, and to that glorious achievement I salute him (though the solo in Comfortably Numb would have been enough by itself).
I give you the incredibly famous song from The Wall and scene from the movie, Comfortably Numb.
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