David Gilmour

It took an act of global philanthropy to finally thaw some of the ice in one of the music industry's best known feuds. When David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed with fellow Pink Floyd members Nick Mason and Rick Wright at last summer's Live 8 it was for the first time since an acrimonious breakdown of their relationship in the mid-eighties.

That rift was caused when Waters attempted to disband the group, only for Gilmour to reform it, sans Waters, claiming he was "too young to be retiring". For years, as the curator of the Pink Floyd catalogue, Gilmour has gone to great lengths to stress that the much-coveted reunion is a non-starter.

But now the camel's back has been broken in the name of a good cause, is it such a leap of faith to imagine it won't happen again? Gilmour has been trotting out the same party lines as before ("I'm not in it for my career anymore"), whilst simultaneously plugging his solo venture 'On an Island' which was released in March of this year. An astute man, he will know that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that David Gilmour: solo artist, will never attract the same sentiment or standing as David Gilmour: longstanding Pink Floyd member.

His arrogant website boasting ('The Voice and Guitar of Pink Floyd') indicate he is perfectly willing to trade on the name. With reunion fever and demand for nostalgia-on-tap at an all time high, record industry execs with pound signs in their eyes will do everything in their power to make it happen. "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash" they'll say. Odds are he will.