Pink Floyd's David Gilmour in First Major U.S. Television Interview [WATCH]

On Friday, former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour unveiled his first solo album in nine years, titled Rattle That Lock. The rocker has since sat down with CBS This Morning to detail his latest solo venture for his first ever U.S. television interview.

His wife, Polly Samson, joined in on Saturday's interview that boasted details concerning the songwriting process, the ultimate ending of his group's classic rock tyranny and the death of keyboardist, Richard Wright. Having wrapped up his life-long Floyd jaunt with The Endless River, the 69-year-old guitarist detailed his mentality on crafting new music. "When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it," Gilmour explained. "You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people."

Samson, who lent a hand in penning lyrics for half of Rattle That Lock's 10 tracks, divulged how she carefully chose the words for each song. "I walk for miles with [the track] on repeat in my headphones ... But the more I walk with it and the more I listen to it, things just start emerging," Samson said. "And the music is so suggestive. I mean, David speaks with the guitar." Samson first offered her rhetoric to 1994's The Division Bell and admitted that it was a dooming task to follow the songwriting mastery of Roger Waters and Syd Barrett.

Rattle That Lock incorporates a homage track to the late Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright, called "A Boat Lies Waiting," Rolling Stone reports. The song samples Wright's voice laid over a lengthy piano introduction before Gilmour launches into the bulk of the music. "We've missed Rick as a friend, as a person, but I think it was at the point that you realized exactly what you'd lost in terms of music, you know, 50 years of reading each other's musical minds and what came out of that," Samson said to Gilmour, acknowledged her husband and the keyboardist endured musical "telepathy" with one another.

Gilmour once again confirmed that Pink Floyd has seen the end of an era with its 2014 swan song release of The Endless River. "It's impossible anyway to go back and do that properly without [Wright]. And there would be no great joy in it," Gilmour said. "It ran its course in a wonderful way. I don't miss it."

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