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Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality. ..... In a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn't know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger's hands were numb "like two toy balloons." He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn't care because they were so busy screaming. (Songfacts)

According to Rolling Stone, the lyrics came from Roger Waters' experience when he was injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band's 1977 In the Flesh tour. The experience gave him the idea which eventually became the lyrics to this song. Waters and Gilmour disagreed about how to record the song as Gilmour preferred a more grungy style for the verses. In the end, Waters' preferred opening to the song and Gilmour's final solo were used on the album. For the backing of Gilmour's vocal section, he and session player Lee Ritenour used a pair of high-strung acoustic guitars, similar to "Nashville" tuning, only the low E string was replaced with a high E string, two octaves higher than normal, instead of one. (Wikipedia)


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Roger Waters: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why. ..... (line 'That'll keep you going through the show') That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn't able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f---ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible. It was so bad that at the end of the show, the audience was baying for more. I couldn't do it. They did the encore about me." (Mojo)

Roger Waters: (concert that inspired the song) "That was the longest two hours of my life, trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm."

David Gilmour: "Well, there were two recordings of that, which me and Roger argued about. I'd written it when I was doing my first solo album [David Gilmour, 1978]. We changed the key of the song's opening the E to B, I think. The verse stayed exactly the same. Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, 'I have become comfortably numb.' Other than that, it was very, very simple to write. But the arguments on it were about how it should be mixed and which track we should use. We'd done one track with Nick Mason an drums that I thought was too rough and sloppy. We had another go at it and I thought that the second take was better. Roger disagreed. It was more an ego thing than anything else. We really went head to head with each other over such a minor thing. I probably couldn't tell the difference if you put both versions on a record today. But, anyway, it wound up with us taking a fill out of one version and putting it into another version." (1993:Guitar World)
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(Roger Waters, David Gilmour)

Roger Waters – lead vocals (verses), bass guitar
David Gilmour – lead vocals (chorus), acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, pedal steel guitar, Prophet-5 synthesiser
Nick Mason – drums
Richard Wright – organ
Lee Ritenour – acoustic guitar
Michael Kamen – orchestral arrangements

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: U.S.A.and/or France, Apr.–Nov. 1979
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Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown. In the original album version, the song segues from "Have a Cigar" as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing the opening of the finale movement of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning. The radio was recorded from Gilmour's car radio. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along. As the acoustic part becomes more complex, the 'radio broadcast' fades away and Gilmour's voice enters, becoming joined by the full band. (Wikipedia)
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Roger Waters: "I'm very sad about Syd. Of course he was important and the band would never have fucking started without him because he was writing all the material. It couldn't have happened without him but on the other hand it couldn't have gone on with him. "Shine On" is not really about Syd – he's just a symbol for all the extremes of absence some people have to indulge in because it's the only way they can cope with how fucking sad it is, modern life, to withdraw completely. I found that terribly sad."
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(Roger Waters, David Gilmou)

David Gilmour – lead/backing vocals, 6/12-string acoustic guitars, pedal steel guitar, tape effects, scat singing Roger Waters – bass guitar, tape effects Nick Mason – drums, tape effects Richard Wright – Steinway piano, Minimoog Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: Brian Humphries
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Jan.–Jul. 1975
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Roger Waters: "You couldn't find anybody in the world more pro-education than me. But the education I went through in boys' grammar school in the '50s was very controlling and demanded rebellion. The teachers were weak and therefore easy targets. The song is meant to be a rebellion against errant government, against people who have power over you, who are wrong. Then it absolutely demanded that you rebel against that. ..... It was only going to be one verse, a guitar solo and out. Then the late Nick Griffths, the engineer at Britannia Row, recorded the school kids, at my request. He did it brilliantly. It wasn't until I heard the 24-track tape he sent while we were working at Producer's Workshop in Los Angeles that I went, 'Wow, this now a single.' Talk about shivers down the spine." (2009:Mojo)

Bob Ezrin: "The most important thing I did for the song was to insist that it be more than just one verse and one chorus long, which it was when Roger wrote it. When we played it with the disco drumbeat I said: "Man, this is a hit! But it's one minute 20. We need two verses and two choruses." And they said, "Well you're not bloody getting them. We don't do singles, so fuck you." So I said, "Okay, fine", and they left. And because of our two [tape recorder] set up, while they weren't around we were able to copy the first verse and chorus, take one of the drum fills, put them in between and extend the chorus.

Then the question is what do you do with the second verse, which is the same? And having been the guy who made Alice Cooper's School's Out I've got this thing about kids on record, and it is about kids after all. So while we were in America, we sent [recording engineer] Nick Griffiths to a school near the Floyd studios [in Islington, North London]. I said, "Give me 24 tracks of kids singing this thing. I want Cockney, I want posh, fill 'em up", and I put them on the song. I called Roger into the room, and when the kids came in on the second verse there was a total softening of his face, and you just knew that he knew it was going to be an important record." (2009:Guitar World)

David Gilmour: "It wasn't my idea to do disco music, it was Bob's. He said to me, "Go to a couple of clubs and listen to what's happening with disco music," so I forced myself out and listened to loud, four-to-the-bar bass drums and stuff and thought, Gawd, awful! Then we went back and tried to turn one of the [song's] parts into one of those so it would be catchy." (2009)
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Part 2 is a protest song against rigid schooling in general and boarding schools in the UK in particular. ..... The song also features a choir of schoolchildren singing in the second verse: as the song ends, the sounds of a school yard are heard, along with a Scottish teacher who continues to lord it over the children's lives by shouting "Wrong! Do it again!", and "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?!", and "You! Yes! You behind the bikesheds! Stand still, laddie!", all of it dissolving into the dull drone of a phone ringing. (Wikipedia)
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Roger Waters — lead vocals, bass
David Gilmour — lead vocals, guitar
Nick Mason — drums
Richard Wright — Hammond organ, Prophet-5 synthesiser
Islington Green School students — backing vocals

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Engineered: James Guthrie
Recorded at: Brittania Row Studios in London, England (1978-12),
..... and Studio Miraval in Le Val, Var, France (1979-01-07),
..... and Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, France (1979-01-07),
..... and Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (1979-10-11),
..... and The Village, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (1979-10-11),
..... and Producer's Workshop, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (1979-11)
Apr.–Nov. 1979
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David Gilmour: "I just wanted to make a dramatic effect with the three solos. The first solo is ADT'd - Artificially Double Tracked. I think I did the first two solos on a Fender Stratocaster, but the last one was done on a different guitar - a Lewis, which was made by some guy in Vancouver. It had a whole two octaves on the neck, which meant I could get up to notes that I couldn't play on a Stratocaster." (Guitar World)

Nick Mason: "By then we had developed a style of using natural sounds rather than musical notes for everything. I just remember searching for sounds to make that rhythm track with. In some cases, we were taking sound effects, in others we were creating them ourselves." (2001:Jam)

David Gilmour: "Money (reminds me of Roger).' I'm not talking about the lyric. Just the quirky 7/8 time reminds me of Roger. It's not a song I would have written. It points itself at Roger." (2015:Uncut)
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This song is about the bad things money can bring. Ironically, it made Pink Floyd lots of cash, as the album sold over 34 million copies. (Songfacts)

"Money" is noted for its unusual 7/4–4/4 time signature, and the tape loop of money-related sound effects (such as a ringing cash register and a jingle of coins) that is heard periodically throughout the song, including on its own at the beginning. (Wikipedia)
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(Roger Waters)

David Gilmour – lead vocals; electric guitars
Roger Waters – bass; tape effects
Richard Wright – Wurlitzer electric piano (with wah-wah pedal)
Nick Mason – drums; tape effects

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: Alan Parsons
Recorded at: Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Jun. 7, 1972 – Jan. 9, 1973
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"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a nine-part Pink Floyd composition written by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Rick Wright. The song was conceived and written as a tribute and remembrance to their former band member Syd Barrett, and the work was first performed on their 1974 French tour, and recorded for their 1975 concept album Wish You Were Here. It was intended to be a side-long composition (like "Atom Heart Mother" and "Echoes"), but was ultimately split into two sections and used to bookend the album, with new material composed that was more relevant to the album, and to the situation in which the band found themselves. (Wikipedia)
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David Gilmour: "We originally did the backing track over the course of several days, but we came to the conclusion that it just wasn't good enough. So we did it again in one day flat and got it a lot better. Unfortunately nobody understood the desk properly and when we played it back we found that someone had switched the echo returns from monitors to tracks one and two. That affected the tom-toms and guitars and keyboards which were playing along at the time. There was no way of saving it, so we just had to do it yet again." (Gary Cooper interview)

Nick Mason: "With the invention of 16-track and 2-inch tape there was the belief for quite a while that there would be something wrong with editing tape that big. Consequently whenever we played these pieces, they had to be played from beginning to end. Particularly for Roger [Waters] and myself being the rhythm section, which would be laid down first, this was [chuckling] a fairly tough business because the whole thing had to be sort of right." (In the Studio with Redbeard) Richard Wright: "Roger was there, and he was sitting at the desk, and I came in and I saw this guy sitting behind him--huge, bald, fat guy. I thought, "He looks a bit...strange..." Anyway, so I sat down with Roger at the desk and we worked for about ten minutes, and this guy kept on getting up and brushing his teeth and then sitting--doing really weird things, but keeping quiet. And I said to Roger, "Who is he?" and Roger said "I don't know." and I said "Well, I assumed he was a friend of yours," and he said "No, I don't know who he is." Anyway, it took me a long time, and then suddenly I realised it was Syd, after maybe 45 minutes. He came in as we were doing the vocals for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, which was basically about Syd. He just, for some incredible reason picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him. And we hadn't seen him, I don't think, for two years before. That's what's so incredibly...weird about this guy. And a bit disturbing, as well, I mean, particularly when you see a guy, that you don't, you couldn't recognise him. And then, for him to pick the very day we want to start putting vocals on, which is a song about him. Very strange."
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(David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Roger Waters)

Roger Waters – bass guitar, lead vocals, additional electric guitar on Part VIII, glass harp
David Gilmour – electric guitars, backing vocals, lap steel guitar, additional bass guitar on Part VI, EMS Synthi AKS, glass harp
Richard Wright – Hammond organ, ARP String Ensemble, Minimoog, quadruple-tracked EMS VCS 3, clavinet and Wurlitzer electric piano on Part VIII, Steinway piano on Parts III and IX, glass harp, Bφsendorfer piano on the multi-channel re-release, backing vocals
Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Dick Parry – baritone and tenor saxophones
Carlena Williams – backing vocals
Venetta Fields – backing vocals

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: Brian Humphries
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Jan.–Jul. 1975
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This song is about how time can slip by, but many people do not realise it until it is too late. Roger Waters got the idea when he realised he was no longer preparing for anything in life, but was right in the middle of it. He has described this realisation taking place at ages 28 and 29 in various interviews. ..... the only song on the album credited to all four members of the band, though the lyrics were written by Roger Waters. It is the final Pink Floyd song credited to all four members and the last to feature Richard Wright on lead vocals until "Wearing the Inside Out" on The Division Bell. (Wikipeida)
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David Gilmour: "He (Alan Parsons) had just recently before we did that album gone out with a whole set of equipment and had recorded all these clocks in a clock shop. And we were doing the song Time, and he said "Listen, I just did all these things, I did all these clocks," and so we wheeled out his tape and listened to it and said "Great! Stick it on!" And that, actually, is Alan Parsons' idea."

Nick Mason: "The drums used on the Time track are roto-toms. I think we did some experiments with some other drums called boo-bans, which are very small, tuned drums, but the roto-toms actually gave the best effect."
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(Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour)

David Gilmour – lead/backing vocals, electric guitars
Richard Wright – lead vocals (bridges), Farfisa organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, EMS VCS 3
Roger Waters – bass
Nick Mason – drums, rototoms
Doris Troy – backing vocals
Lesley Duncan – backing vocals
Liza Strike – backing vocals
Barry St. John – backing vocals

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: Alan Parsons
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios, Sep 1972-Jan 1973
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David Gilmour: "Roger had a go at singing it and one or two people were unkind about his singing. One or two people then asked me to have a go at it. I did, but I wasn't comfortable. I had nothing against the lyrics. Maybe the range and intensity wasn't right for my voice. I can distinctly remember Roy leaning on the wall outside Abbey Riad, while we were nattering away and (growls) 'Go on, lemme have a go, lemme have a go.' We all went, 'Shut up Roy.' But eventually we said, 'Go on then, Roy, have your bloody go.' Most of us enjoyed his version, though I don't think Roger ever liked it." (2011:Mojo)

Roger Waters: "A lot of people think I can't sing, including me a bit. I'm very unclear about what singing is. I know I find it hard to pitch, and I know the sound of my voice isn't very good in purely aesthetic terms, and Roy Harper was recording his own album in another EMI studio at the time, he's a mate, and we thought he could probably do a job on it." (1975:Wish You Were Here songbook)

David Gilmour: ""Have a Cigar" was a whole track on which I used the guitar and keyboards at once. There are some extra guitars which I dubbed on later, but I did the basic guitar tracks at one time." (1975:Wish You Were Here songbook)


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The song's music and lyrics were written by Roger Waters in critique of hypocrisy and greed within the music business. The music is more straightforwardly rock-oriented than the rest of the album, beginning with a churning riff played on electric guitar and bass. The track is filled out with additional guitar, electric piano and synthesizer parts to create a rock texture.

The song's lead vocals are performed by Roy Harper. Both Waters and David Gilmour had each attempted to sing the song on separate takes, as well as on a duet version (available on the 2011 Experience and Immersion editions of Wish You Were Here), but they were unhappy with the results. Harper was recording his album HQ in Studio 2 of Abbey Road at the same time as Pink Floyd were working in Studio 3, and Roy Harper offered to sing the part ("...for a price"). (Wikipedia)

This song is about corporations and how they control their musicians. The line, "We call it riding the gravy train" is held for such a long time to emphasize the fact that these companies will go as long as possible to squeeze every last cent out of their clients. (Songfacts)
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Roy Harper – lead vocals
David Gilmour – electric guitars, additional keyboards
Richard Wright – Wurlitzer electric piano, ARP String Synthesizer, Minimoog, Hohner clavinet D6
Roger Waters – bass guitar
Nick Mason – drums

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Jan-Jul 1975
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The music was written by Roger Waters and Richard Wright with lyrics by Waters. The tune was originally written on the piano by Wright for the film Zabriskie Point in 1969 and was titled "The Violent Sequence". In its original demo form it was instrumental, featuring only piano and bass. Director Michelangelo Antonioni rejected it on the grounds that it was too unlike material such as "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", which was the style of music he wanted to use. The song was shelved until The Dark Side of the Moon, where Waters put some lyrics to it. (Wikipedia)
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David Gilmour – lead vocals, electric guitars
Roger Waters – bass, fuzz bass
Richard Wright – Hammond organ, piano, harmony vocals
Nick Mason – drums
Dick Parry – tenor saxophone
Lesley Duncan – backing vocals
Doris Troy – backing vocals
Barry St. John – backing vocals
Liza Strike – backing vocals

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: Alan Parsons
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Jun. 1, 1972-Jan. 9, 1973
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The lyrics are about a "rock and roll refugee" seeking casual sex to relieve the tedium of touring. (Wikipedia)
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(Roger Waters, David Gilmour)

David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar
Nick Mason – drums, tambourine[citation needed
Roger Waters – backing vocals
Richard Wright – organs, electric piano
Chris Fitzmorris – male telephone voice

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Engineered: James Guthrie
Recorded at: Brittania Row Studios in London, England, United Kingdom (1978-12),
..... and Studio Miraval in Le Val, Var, France (1979-01 – 1979-07),
..... and Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, France (1979-01-07),
..... and Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10-11),
..... and The Village in Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10-11),
..... and Producer's Workshop in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-11)
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The song was primarily written by David Gilmour, who developed the music from a 1986 demo by Jon Carin. The notable rhythm pattern at the beginning of the song was already present in the demo, and Carin stated that it was influenced by Steve Jansen or Yukihiro Takahashi.

The lyrics describe Gilmour's thoughts on flying, for which he has a passion (being a licensed pilot with multiple ratings), though it has also been interpreted as a metaphor for beginning something new, experiencing a radical change in life, or, more specifically, Gilmour's feelings about striking out as the new leader of Pink Floyd after the departure of Roger Waters. Gilmour confirmed the latter interpretation on the Pink Floyd 25th Anniversary Special in May 1992. Also an avid pilot, drummer Nick Mason's voice can be heard at around the middle of the song. "Learning to Fly" was included on Pink Floyd's greatest hits collection Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd. (Wikipedia)
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(David Gilmour, Anthony Moore, Bob Ezrin, Jon Carin)

David Gilmour – lead vocals; guitars
Nick Mason – drums; spoken words
Richard Wright – keyboards; additional vocals on chorus sections
Jon Carin – keyboards
Steve Forman – percussion
Tony Levin – bass
Darlene Koldenhaven – backing vocals
Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
Phyllis St. James – backing vocals
Donnie Gerrard – backing vocals

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour
Engineered: Andy Jackson
Recorded: Nov. – Dec. 1986
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In the album's three parts, "Dogs", "Pigs" and "Sheep", pigs represent the people whom Roger Waters considers to be at the top of the social ladder, the ones with wealth and power; they also manipulate the rest of society and encourage them to be viciously competitive and cutthroat, so the pigs can remain powerful.

The song's three verses each presents a different "pig", the identity of whom remains a matter of speculation[nb 1] as only the third verse clearly identifies its subject as morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who is described as a "house proud town mouse" who has to "keep it all on the inside." Also, Roger told Jim Ladd in 1992 on the Westwood One radio special called Pink Floyd : The 25th Anniversary Special that the "Whitehouse" verse had nothing to do with the home of the U.S. President the White House after Ladd told Roger he interpreted the last verse as an attack on former President Gerald Ford before Roger set the record straight. (Wikipedia)
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This is a song about Mother Earth, and how sooner or later, sick of the way we humans treat her, she will go into self protection mode and extinct (take back) the human race like was done in the Atlantean days. (Songfacts)

The music for the song was written by guitarist David Gilmour and album co-producer Bob Ezrin, with lyrics by Gilmour, his wife Polly Samson and Nick Laird-Clowes. The lyrics include a common British reading of the nursery rhyme, Ring a Ring o' Roses, during its instrumental section. (Wikipeida)
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(David Gilmour, Bob Ezrin, Polly Samson, Nick Laird-Clowes)

David Gilmour - lead vocals, guitars
Richard Wright - keyboards
Nick Mason - drums, percussion
Tim Renwick - additional guitar
Jon Carin - programming
Guy Pratt - bass

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour
Engineered: Andrew Jackson
Recorded at: Astoria (David Gilmour's houseboat studio) in Hampton, London, England (1993),
..... and Brittania Row Studios in London, England (1993-01),
..... and Metropolis, London, England (1993-09-12),
..... and The Creek in London, England (1993-09-12)
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The song is written from the narrative point of view of antihero Pink, an alienated and bitter rock star, during a hallucination in which he becomes a fascist dictator and turns a concert audience into an angry mob. The lyrics are explicitly threatening, directed at the listener, one with an "empty smile" and "hungry heart", "dirty feelings" and a "guilty past", "nerves in tatters" as "hammers batter down your door." Even the act of sexual intercourse is doomed, for "if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks", the results will be fatal. Although the lyric "You better run like hell" appears twice in the liner notes, the title is never actually sung; each verse simply concludes with "You better run". (Wikipedia)

Like the last few songs on The Wall, this can be summarized as Hitler's rise into power and downfall into hell just as Pink's life did in the movie The Wall. This isn't as detailed as "Waiting For the Worms", but it is a look into Hitler's terror. The entire theme is based on the dreaded Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass translated from German) on November 9th, 1938 which came during Hitler's order of terror. Nazis raided Jewish businesses and synagogues, places of recreation, even homes; throwing people out, destroying what they could. Many were killed and hundreds injured, and 7,500 business and 177 synagogues were destroyed. This is the terror that Pink in The Wall brought over citizens of his own kind. (Songfacts)
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(David Gilmour, Roger Waters)

Roger Waters – lead vocals; screaming; panting
David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar; bass guitar; backwards cymbals
Nick Mason – drums
Richard Wright – Prophet-5 synthesizer; organ
James Guthrie – backwards cymbals; running; panting
Bobbye Hall – congas; bongos

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Engineered: James Guthrie
Recorded at: Brittania Row Studios, London, England, United Kingdom (1978-12),
..... and Studio Miraval, Le Val, France (1979-01 – 1979-07),
..... and Super Bear Studios, Berre-les-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, France (1979-01 – 1979-07),
..... and Producer's Workshop in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (1979-04 – 1979-11),
..... and Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10-11),
..... and The Village, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10 – 1979-11)
......Apr.–Nov., 1979
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Composed by David Gilmour with lyrics by Gilmour and Polly Samson. Its lyrics speak of the things one may have gained and lost in life, written from Gilmour's autobiographic perspective. Gilmour has said that the song is more about his early days, and leaving his hometown behind, than about the seeds of division supposedly planted in Pink Floyd's early days. (Wikipedia)
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(David Gilmour, Polly Samson)

David Gilmour – lead/backing vocals, classical guitar, bass, lap steel guitars
Richard Wright – Kurzweil synthesisers
Nick Mason – drums, church bell, percussion
Jon Carin – piano
Michael Kamen – orchestrations
Edward Shearmur – orchestrations
Charlie Gilmour – voice
Steve O'Rourke – voice

Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour
Engineered: Andrew Jackson
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studios #2, London, England (1993),
..... and Astoria (David Gilmour's houseboat studio) in Hampton, London, England (1993),
..... and Brittania Row Studios in London, England (1993-01),
..... and The Creek in London, England (1993-09 – 1993-12)
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Polly Samson: "stately depiction of undying love, a tribute to Richard Wright and the importance of overcoming petty differences"

Polly Samson: "I remembered that at Live 8 (the 2005 benefit concerts which saw former Floyd bassist Roger Waters return to play with the band) that something had struck me then, I’d made some notes. At Live 8, they’d rehearsed, there were sound checks, lots of downtime siting in rooms with David, Rick, Nick, and, on that occasion, Roger. And what struck me was, they never spoke. They don’t do small talk, they don’t do big talk. It’s not hostile, they just don’t speak. And then they step onto a stage and musically that communication is extraordinary. So, I’d kind of made some notes at that time. I went off into my room absolutely without a piece of music, and wrote that lyric, and then said, “David, if this would do, and if you have a piece of music, you’re welcome to try it.” And he loved it."

David Gilmour: "Well, Rick is gone. This is the last thing that'll be out from us. I'm pretty certain there will not be any follow up to this. And Polly, my wife, thought that would be a very good lyrical idea to go out on. A way of describing the symbiosis that we have. Or had… I didn't necessarily always give [Wright] his proper due. People have very different attitudes to the way they work and we can become very judgmental and think someone is not quite pulling his weight enough, without realising that theirs is a different weight to pull." (The Guardian)
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The song, featuring lyrics written by Samson to accompany a composition by Gilmour. ..... David Gilmour's wife Polly Samson wrote the lyrics for "Louder than Words." She based the lyrics on observations of the band's behaviour during the rehearsals, downtime and performance at Live 8 in July of 2005, the band's first reunion as Pink Floyd with Roger Waters in over 24 years. (Wikipedia)
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(David Gilmour, Polly Samson)

David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitars, Hammond organ, effects
Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Richard Wright – Rhodes piano, piano, synthesiser
Bob Ezrin – bass guitar
Chantal Leverton – viola
Victoria Lyon – violin
Helen Nash – cello
Honor Watson – violin
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Louise Marshal – backing vocals
Sarah Brown – backing vocals

Produced: David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Martin Glover, Andy Jackson
Engineered: Andy Jackson, Damon Iddins
Recorded at: Astoria (Gilmour's houseboat studio), London, England, 1993/2014
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Roger Waters: "If you can level one accusation at mothers, it is that they tend to protect their children too much. Too much and for too long. This isn't a portrait of my mother, although one or two of the things in there apply to her as well as to I'm sure lots of other people's mothers."

Roger Waters: "The song has some connection with my mother, for sure, though the mother that Gerald Scarfe visualises in his drawings couldn't be further from mine. She's nothing like that. ..... My mother was suffocating in her own way. She always had to be right about everything. I'm not blaming her. That's who she was. I grew up with a single parent who could never hear anything I said, because nothing I said could possibly be as important as what she believed. My mother was, to some extent, a wall herself that I was banging my head against. She lived her life in the service of others. She was a school teacher. But it wasn't until I was 45, 50 years old that I realised how impossible it was for her to listen to me. ..... She's not that recognisable (in the song). The song is more general, the idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be." (2009:Mojo)
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(Roger Waters)

David Gilmour — vocals (chorus), acoustic and electric guitars, bass
Roger Waters — vocals (verse), acoustic guitar
Bob Ezrin — organ, piano
Jeff Porcaro — drums


Produced: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Roger Waters
Engineered: James Guthrie
Recorded at: Studio Miraval in Le Val, Var, France (1979-01-07),
..... and Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, France (1979-01-07),
..... and Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10-11),
..... and The Village in Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-10-11),
..... and Producer's Workshop in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1979-11)

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Roger Waters: "The potential that human beings have for recognizing each other's humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy." (Rolling Stone)

Richard Wright: "The whole piano thing at the beginning and the chord structure is mine, so I had a large part in writing that. But it's credited to other people of course. Roger obviously wrote the lyrics. ..... One of the roadies had plugged his wah wah pedal in back to front, which created this huge wall of feedback. He played around with that and created this beautiful sound." (2008:Mojo)

Nick Mason: "The guitar sound in the middle section of 'Echoes' was created inadvertently by David plugging in a wah-wah pedal back to front. Sometimes great effects are the results of this kind of pure serendipity, and we were always prepared to see if something might work on a track. The grounding we'd received from Ron Geesin in going beyond the manual had left its mark."
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(Richard Wright, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason)

David Gilmour – lead vocals, electric guitars, sound effects
Richard Wright – lead vocals, grand piano, Hammond/Farfisa organ, sound effects
Roger Waters – bass, slide bass, sound effects
Nick Mason – drums, percussion, sound effects

Produced: Pink Floyd
Engineered: John Leckie, Peter Bown
Recorded at: EMI's Abbey Road Studio, London, England, Jan 1971,
..... and AIR Studios, London, England, Mar-Apr 1971, Aug 1971,
(Minor work: Morgan Studios, London, England, May 1971, Jun-Jul, 1971)
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"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters,[1][2] describing the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, in the Battle of Anzio (codenamed Operation Shingle) during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.

The song was written at the same time as The Wall, hence its copyright date of 1979, and was originally intended to be part of that album, but was rejected by the other members of the band on the grounds that it was too personal.[4] It was subsequently recorded and included in the movie version of The Wall and first released as a separate track on a 7" single on 26 July 1982 (running 2:55), before appearing in The Wall film. The 7" was labelled "Taken from the album The Final Cut" but was not included on that album until the 2004 CD reissue.

Waters has indicated that his father was originally a conscientious objector during the outbreak of World War II. However, as the Nazi German expansion grew, Waters' father felt compelled to join the armed forces. (Wikipedia)
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Roger Waters: "So he went back to the conscription board in London and told them he had changed his mind. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, which is how he ended up here 70 years ago. He believed he was involved in a necessary fight against the Nazis, and for that he paid the ultimate price."
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(Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen)

Roger Waters - lead vocals
Orchestra conducted and arranged by Michael Kamen
The Pontardulais Male Voice Choir led by Noel Davis

Produced: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen
Engineered: ??
Recorded: Nov. 1981 - Mar. 1982
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The song was reportedly about a girl named Emily, who Barrett claimed to have seen while sleeping in the woods after taking a psychedelic drug. He later stated that the story about sleeping in the woods and seeing a girl before him was made up "...all for publicity." According to A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, by Nicholas Schaffner, Emily is the Honourable Emily Young, daughter of Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, and the sister of author Louisa Young, and nicknamed "the psychedelic schoolgirl" at the UFO Club. An article in Mojo magazine called "See the Real Emily" supposedly shows a picture of Barrett's Emily. It has been suggested by some that the slide guitar effect was produced by Barrett using a Zippo lighter, but elsewhere that he used a plastic ruler. (Wikipedia)
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(Syd Barrett)

Syd Barrett – lead vocals, electric guitar, slide guitar
Richard Wright – Farfisa organ, piano, tack piano, Baldwin Spinet electric harpsichord, backing vocals
Roger Waters – bass, backing vocals
Nick Mason – drums

Produced: Norman Smith
Engineered: Jeff Jarrett
Recorded at: Sound Techniques, London, England, May 21, 1967
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The lyrics, written by Roger Waters, deal with war (particularly the Falklands War) and criticism of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as well as general criticisms of the greed and corruption that Waters saw as dangers to society. It also shows the corruptible and fruitless labor of post-war America, Europe and Japan. The wording is such that it mainly tells of the changing of global trade and that a new leader is emerging in the consumer goods industry, Japan. (Wikipedia)

(Roger Waters)

Roger Waters – lead vocals, bass, twelve-string guitar, tape effects, synthesizer
David Gilmour – guitar, backing vocals
Nick Mason – drums
Andy Bown – Hammond organ

Produced: Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen
Engineered: ??
Recorded at: Jul.–Dec. 1982
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