David Gilmour pays tribute to Nordoff and Robbins charity as he accepts O2 Silver Clef Award

David Gilmour, Rick Astley and Sophie Ellis-Bextor were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Wednesday night (03.07.25).

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00:00Thank you for joining us.

01:00So, as a prog rock child, the fact that David Gilmour is in the room, I'm going to try

01:11and be very professional, but I doubt I'll be able to.

01:13So, next year is our 50th.

01:21We've been planning for a year before already, so it's going to be very big, and we are hoping

01:25to have all our recipients in the room, so watch the space.

01:29Music therapy, done by music therapists, it's music in the hands of an expert, and what

01:34it is, is when words fail, music speaks, so music therapists help them access that.

01:41We work with children, special education needs, we work with people with dementia, so we've

01:44had children speak for the first time in some of our therapy sessions, and we've had people

01:48from dementia who've been closed off for many, many, many years actually find themselves and

01:52therefore recognize their family again for the first time in years in a session, so it's

01:55very powerful.

01:55Well, what we find is the musicians that connect with us is they see what else music can do,

02:02that thing that they feel and they see their audience, that connection that exists, so when

02:07they see that connection being used in this extra way, it's an instant connection with the

02:11event, so for them it gets in their hearts.