Mrs Dave Gilmour feared being cast as 'Yoko Ono figure' for her lyrical prowess The wife of the Pink Floyd star, Dave Gilmour, has said she did not take too much credit for her lyric-writing for the band because she feared being seen as a "Yoko Ono figure." Polly Samson, a respected author in her own right, worried about "shameful" comparisons to the widow of John Lennon, of the Beatles, after she started penning words for Pink Floyd on their 1993 album, The Division Bell. The 52-year-old novelist was speaking about the release of the new Pink Floyd record, The Endless River, on which she has also written song lyrics. Speaking at the same event, at the Porchester Hall in central London, guitarist and singer Gilmour, 68, put his wife's concerns down to the "strange, old dinosaur misogynist world" that was the music business. I don't want to sound too adoring but she is my moral compass and my muse, really, Gilmour said of Samson, the Evening Standard reported. And it was not actually quite sufficiently recognised or credited on Division Bell. She has a fantastic way with words. The Endless River, whose songs were forged from unused recordings session for the Division Bell, has broken Amazon.com's record for its most pre-ordered record of all time. Samson said that although comparisons to Ono might once have been seen as pejorative, this was no longer the case. "She is a really serious artist and she has such a huge amount of integrity," Samson was quoted by the Standard as saying. Even on the Division Bell, Gilmour insisted that Samson receive a writing credit as well as being paid, although Samson was only interested in the latter, the couple told their audience.