Being a big-time record company executive certainly comes with perks. And some of Paul Rappaport’s most treasured bonuses were of the six-string variety. Rappaport spent an appropriate 33 1/3 years ...

The video features black-and-white footage of Gilmour working in the studio with his various collaborators. They include drummer Stephen Gadd, bassist Guy Pratt, and co-producer Charlie Andrew.

All it takes is one guitar note piercing through a pitch-black arena — one note dramatically reaching heavenward, as if it’s waking up — to recognize the guitarist. As soon as David Gilmour struck the ...