![]() "Learning to Fly" would help them finally take off, but into a very uncertain future: Waters had filed suit in an attempt to stop Pink Floyd from continuing without him. Instead, Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason – who'd also decided to take flying lessons – elected to move forward. When Waters announced he was quitting, he wasn't alone in assuming that would mean the end of Pink Floyd. By the end of the '70s, however, he'd begun to recede within towering Waters-centric narratives that defined 1977's Animals, 1979's The Wall and 1983's The Final Cut. Gilmour joined in time for Pink Floyd's second album, 1968's Saucerful of Secrets, and played a central role in crafting a new sonic approach. "'Learning to Fly' is about breaking free," Gilmour later told Only Music, "and the actual mechanics of learning to fly an airplane." ![]() His initial trepidation, in both cases, gave way to a soaring sense of opportunity. ![]()
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