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Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.
Wrench sold The Spectator in 1954 to barrister Ian Gilmour.
Gilmour sold The Spectator to the businessman Harold Creighton in 1967 for £ 75, 000.
In 1967 Ian Gilmour, who by then had joined parliament and was already finding the proprietorship less of a help than a hindrance in political life, sold The Spectator to Harry Creighton for £ 75, 000.
In 1955, David Astor, editor of The Observer, Ian Gilmour, editor of The Spectator, John Grigg, editor of The National and English Review, and Sir Lynton Andrews, editor of The Yorkshire Post, formed a delegation to petition the Home Secretary for a new inquiry because of their dissatisfaction with the conclusions of the Scott Henderson Inquiry.
The proprietor and editor of the long-established weekly The Spectator, Ian Gilmour, invited Levin to join his staff.
Gilmour discouraged any hopes Levin might have had of succeeding Inglis as editor and in 1962, Levin left both The Spectator and The Daily Express, becoming drama critic of The Daily Mail.

Gilmour and
At the village of Mowat, abandoned by Gilmour Lumber Co. in 1900, the mill s former boarding house became Mowat Lodge in 1913.

Gilmour and end
When played live on the 1977 tour, the piano plays the chords on its own before the synthesizer solo was slowly changed from itself ( early part of European leg ) into half synthesizer and harmony guitar solo by Gilmour ( higher notes ) and White ( lower notes ; on the end of the European leg and April and May, 1977 US performances ) and then first a bluesy Gilmour solo followed by a harmony guitar solo by Gilmour ( higher notes ) and White ( lower notes ; on the June and July, 1977 US performances ) finally before ending with the synthesizer solo as on record.
There are some differences between the re-recorded version and the original ; mainly in the saxophone and guitar solos and the overall use of reverb and Gilmour repeating " away " at the end instead of the high pitch scat singing on the original.
The performance of " No Way " had Gilmour playing regular lead guitar solos at the end of the track on his Fender Esquire ( with distortion ) instead of the lap steel guitar solos ( with distortion ) that had appeared on the album version and had a clean ending instead of fading out like on the album ( the remastered CD version of the album had Gilmour's lap steel solo extended this time to feature a duel between himself playing high notes on his lap steel and lower notes on his trademark Stratocaster during the fadeout on the remaster ).
" I Can't Breathe Anymore " had Gilmour playing a regular guitar solo at the end of this song's performance whilst on the album version ( and on the remastered CD in an extended coda ), a distorted lap steel guitar countered the ending guitar solo.
At the end of 1850, Dunsmuir's mentor, and his aunt's husband, Boyd Gilmour, had signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company to exploit a coal finding on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island at Fort Rupert ( near present day Port Hardy ).

Gilmour and Britain
After William Hague ruled out Britain joining the euro under a Conservative government, former cabinet minister Ian Gilmour said he would vote for the PECP, and four former Conservative MPs-Julian Critchley, Nicholas Scott, David Knox, Robert Hicks-and four former MEPs-Margaret Daly, Adam Fergusson, Madron Seligman and Anthony Simpson-wrote in a letter to The Times that " We would have wished that William Hague's party had put forward a manifesto more like that of the Pro Euro Conservative Party.

Gilmour and writing
Gilmour was known for writing coherently from the One Nation perspective of the Conservative Party, in opposition to Thatcherism ; in particular in his books Dancing with Dogma ( 1992 ) and ( with Mark Garnett ) Whatever Happened to the Tories ( 1997 ) and in his critical articles in journals such as the London Review of Books.
Waters is said to have refused Gilmour's request for more time to complete his own ( Gilmour's ) material, which effectively denied Gilmour any writing credits on The Final Cut.

Gilmour and leader
When Margaret Thatcher became the new leader of the Conservative party, she appointed Gilmour as Shadow Home Secretary in 1975, then as Shadow Defence Secretary from 1976 to 1978.

Gilmour and which
Produced by Pink Floyd / David Gilmour engineer Andy Jackson ( taking over from previous band producer Bill Buchanan ), the album was preceded by the single " For Her Light ", which clipped the British Top 40 in its first week of release.
Key tracks include the title song, " Splendid Isolation ", " Run Straight Down " ( which had a promotional video that featured Zevon singing in a factory while Gilmour played his guitar solos ) and " They Moved the Moon ", the latter among Zevon's eerier ballads.
Gilmour helped the Sabres, which had been Stanley Cup finalists the season before, make the playoffs.
Co-written by their live sound mixer Peter Gilmour, it reached No 26 in the UK charts in October 1976, which prompted an appearance on Top of the Pops, where Czukay performed with a double bass.
The title track resulted from a number of instrumental figures the band had composed during these rehearsals, including the chord progression of the main theme, which Gilmour had called " Theme from an Imaginary Western ", and the earliest documented live performance was on 17 January 1970 at Hull University.
The second night saw Gilmour join Geesin on stage for the performance, which was extended to 30 minutes.
According to David Gilmour and Nick Mason on the Wish You Were Here episode of In the Studio with Redbeard, the band recorded a satisfactory take of " Shine On You Crazy Diamond ", but because of a new mixing console which was installed at Abbey Road Studios, it needed to be re-recorded because excessive ' bleed ' from other instruments could be heard on the drum tracks.
Gilmour confirmed this story, although he could not recall which song they were working on when Barrett showed up.
The highest note he hit on the lap steel / slide solo was a B-flat nearly 3 octaves above middle C, followed by a reprise of the guitar solo from Part IV ( which was played by Snowy White live on Pink Floyd's 1977 tour so Gilmour could switch from the lap steel guitar back to his Fender Stratocaster ).
However, when this section was played live on the band's 1977 " In the Flesh " tour, the sound was filled out by both Gilmour and Snowy White, who would trade guitar solos in a duet ( or known as the battle between Gilmour's black with white pick-ups Strat and Snowy's Goldtop Gibson Les Paul ) which would extend this section upwards to between 5 and 10 minutes.
Gilmour performed almost the whole suite ( save part 9 ) at his 2001 and 2002 semi-unplugged concerts ( which were documented on his 2002 David Gilmour in Concert DVD ) and has performed Parts 1 – 2 and 4-5 ( in a new arrangement ) on his 2006 On an Island solo tour.
The second album Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts was partly recorded aboard the houseboat-studio Astoria, which belongs to guitarist David Gilmour ( of Pink Floyd ).
However, he did not participate in frontline British politics again, and was given a life peerage by John Major in 1992, becoming Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, of Craigmillar in the District of the City of Edinburgh, of which his family were, for several hundred years, the feudal superiors.
Parry appeared on Gilmour's live dates in 2001 and 2002, one performance of which was released as David Gilmour in Concert.
Despite playing drums in Jokers Wild, Wilson played bass for sessions for Syd Barrett's album, The Madcap Laughs ( later sessions of which, were produced by Gilmour ).
It includes the first ever performance of " Smile " a track which would appear almost five years later on Gilmour's third solo album-On an Island, and Gilmour even plays a few Syd Barrett compositions.
The original launch date of November 21 was moved back to permit French president François Mitterrand to view the launch, which was also attended by David Gilmour and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, who made an audio recording of the event for potential use in a future project.
They went on to record Touched by Jesus in 1991 ( which featured David Gilmour of Pink Floyd on guitar on two tracks ), which made the UK Top 20, before changing record labels and releasing Ultraviolet, the year after.
David Gilmour was later interviewed by Texas-based DJ Redbeard, on the radio programme, In the Studio with Redbeard during which the focus was his 2006 solo effort On an Island.
" Murder ", which followed ( reaching number 11 ), was an outcry by Gilmour about the senseless killing of John Lennon, a longtime musical peer and inspiration to him.
Townshend used it with his lyrics as " White City Fighting ", which has a markedly faster tempo, on his 1985 album White City: A Novel, on which Gilmour plays.

Gilmour and claimed
The crew took with them a cassette of Pink Floyd's newly-released live album Delicate Sound of Thunder ( minus the cassette box, for weight reasons ) and played it in orbit ; this was claimed by David Gilmour to have been the first rock music recording in space.

Gilmour and has
The Blues failed to admit publicly that the trade was a result of the pending lawsuit against Gilmour, but Gilmour was convinced it was the reason: " I didn't want to leave St. Louis but from what has happened the past week, on our part and on the St. Louis Blues ' part, it was our best solution.
For instance, Gilmour has said the album was " a load of rubbish.
The performances featured the chamber choir Canticum, brass and noted cellist Caroline Dale, who has worked with David Gilmour.
David Gilmour from Pink Floyd has confirmed that he watched this Hendrix concert.
Due to city expansion, Leaside has become prime real estate with the GTA, and has attracted many local celebrities, such as NHL goaltender Trevor Kidd, Avalanche winger Darcy Tucker, Ex-NHL player Doug Gilmour, and comedian Colin Mochrie and his actress wife Deb McGrath.
#" Cry from the Street " ( Gilmour / Electra Stuart ) – 5: 13 ( original album ); ( the 2006 remaster has a longer fadeout at 5: 18 )
#< li value = 5 >" Short and Sweet " ( Gilmour / Roy Harper ) – 5: 30 ( original album ); ( the 2006 remaster has a longer fadeout at 5: 33 )
He has played with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Gary Moore on his 1989 world tour.
As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley & Creme, Nico and John Wetton.
He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt and Gilmour.
In its year history, Guitar World has had interviews with many notable guitarists in rock, including Keith Richards, Alex Lifeson, Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Arthur Rhames, Al Di Meola, John Frusciante, Steve Morse, Robert Ward, Mark Tremonti, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Synyster Gates, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Slash, Neal Schon, Tony Iommi, Steve Howe, Angus Young, Zakk Wylde, Allan Holdsworth and Eddie Van Halen, who has been featured on the cover 16 times, and twice on subsidiary magazine Guitar Legends.
The door to this tower has a classical pediment, above which is a 20th century plaque, erected by a descendant of the Gilmours, and bearing the arms of Sir John Gilmour and his wife.
The shift from a pejorative to a societal identifier has been abrupt and in no small part due to local comedian Ewen Gilmour whose stand-up comedy act as Ewen " Westie " Gilmour gave the term national prominence between 1995 and 2000 in the premier television programme Pulp Comedy.
David Gilmour has said this was an attempt to get round Roger Waters having the image rights for the pig
On numerous occasions Gilmour has acknowledged the influence of Green on his style, and even performed " Albatross " on Jools Holland's Radio 2 show on 10 November 2008.

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