Watch David Gilmour perform "Wish you were here" at London's Earls court

The Endless River might mark "the end" of Pink Floyd but that won't stop David Gilmour from performing the band's music. Last Saturday night at London's Earls Court, the guitarist made a rare appearance first playing lap steel guitar before performing the Pink Floyd classic "Wish You Were Here" live for the first time in over two years.

"This man gave me my first guitar and was one of the first people to play this venue and by my count has played here more than 27 times", Bombay's Bicycle Club guitarist Jamie MacColl told the crowd. Earls Court is planned to be demolished and rebuild so as The Bombay Bicycle club’s gig was scheduled to be the last concert ever there, it was natural for the Pink Floyd guitarist to be on hand for Earls Court's curtain call.

Gilmour ties with the historic Earls Court Exhibition Centre goes way back in time. In 1973 Pink Floyd performed Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety at the London venue. Portions of Pink Floyd's live album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 and the entire 1995 Pulse concert film were also recorded at Earls Court.

While Pink Floyd is no more, Gilmour said that he plans to release solo album with plans to tour in the future. "It's coming along very well", Gilmour told Rolling Stone of his solo LP. "There are some sketches that aren't finished and some of them will be started again. There's a few months' work in it yet. I'm hoping to get it out this following year. Then I'm hoping to do an old man's tour, not a 200-date sort of thing".

In other Pink Floyd news that show the band's lasting impact, Dark Side of the Moon, more than 40 years after the album was first released, reentered this week the Billboard 200's Top 20. The reason was due to a Google Play special that offered a 99-cent download of the LP, resulting in over 38,000 more copies sold for the most charted album in Billboard history at 889 weeks and counting.