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A Pink Floyd Frequently Asked Questions List...
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Floyd Abbreviations:
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PF : Pink Floyd (!)
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PatGoD: Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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ASFoS : A Saucerful Of Secrets
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AHM : Atom Heart Mother
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OBC : Obscured By Clouds
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ANP : A Nice Pair
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DSOTM : Dark Side Of The Moon
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TGGITS: The Great Gig In The Sky
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WYWH : Wish You Were Here
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MLoR : A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
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DSoT : Delicate Sound of Thunder
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TAP : The Amazing Pudding (a PF Fanzine)
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Eclipse Abbreviations:
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BTW : by the way
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IMO : In my opinion
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IMHO : In my humble opinion
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:-) : Smiley face, used to denote sarcasm
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Floyd LineUps:
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Version Line Up
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0.9 Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Bob Close
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1.1 Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett
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1.2 Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour, Syd Barrett
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2.0 Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour
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2.1 Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour
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3.0 Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour
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3.1 Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour, Rick Wright
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Who does What, Where and When:
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Syd Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett): Chief singer/songwriter/lead guitarist
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for the Floyd in the early years, up to including PATGOD. Soon after its
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release he was forced to retire from the band due to "illness", but not
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before making an appearance on the Floyd's second album ASFoS. He soon
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afterwards wrote two solo albums (The Madcap Laughs and Barrett) but due
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to his illness, retired from music all together. He apparently now lives
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in Cambridge with his mother, with no intention of returning to music.
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David (Jon) Gilmour: Joined the band in '68, in order to "support" the ailing
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Syd (the idea was, according to Roger Waters, to let Syd carry on writing
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songs, but have Dave actually do Syd's part live), but Syd was to soon leave
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and so Dave took over as lead guitarist, and also took over some of the
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singing. Right up to DSOTM, Dave was also writing his own songs, but from
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DSOTM to The Final Cut, Roger Waters took over in the Lyrics department.
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Dave, released, perhaps reluctantly of this responsibility, did make up
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for it by producing some excellent Guitar, and production work on all
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those albums, most notably Shine On You Crazy Diamond (from WYWH) and
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Comfortably Numb (from The Wall). He also did a large amount of the vocals,
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and it can be argued that he's probably got the best singing voice in the
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band. When Roger Waters split after The Final Cut album Dave decided to
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continue the band, and has now become the chief singer/songwriter/lead
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guitarist. To date, he's made two solo albums (Dave Gilmour and About Face).
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Nick Mason (Nicholas Berkley Mason): 'e does drums! The only member of
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the Floyd to stay the distance, his chief contribution to Floyd music
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is percussion. He has written one song (The Grand Vizier's Garden Party
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on Ummagumma) and has pride of place in speaking the words "One of these
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days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" on, well, One Of These
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Days (from Meddle). He's released one solo venture (Fictitious Sports)
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and one collaboration piece with Rick Fenn (Profiles). He's also
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renowned for his love of sports cars, and has very expensive and impressive
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collection of them.
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Roger Waters (George Roger Waters): His Rogness, has been singer/songwriter
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/bassist from the very beginning. After the absence of Syd, he gradually
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began to take more control over the Floyd's lyrics, until DSOTM, where
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all lyrics are his. This vein continued through WYWH, and ANIMALS,
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until The Wall, where he began to take control over the music side of
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things too. For The Final Cut, its often been said that this is Roger with
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a few famous backing musicians, as the album is almost totally "his own
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work". After The Final Cut, Roger left the band, and expected the others
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to do likewise, but was surprised to find them wanting to carry it on.
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A few law suits were involved, but resulted in Rog getting not as much as
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he expected. He continues to pursue his solo career, with two quite
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successful solo ventures (The Pro's and Con's Of Hitch Hiking and Radio
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KAOS) and recently "revived" The Wall in Berlin for charity. He has done
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two collaboration pieces, one with Ron Geesin (Music From The Body) which
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dates back to 1970, and one with various other artists, the film
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soundtrack to When The Wind Blows. A new solo piece is expected "very
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soon".
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Rick Wright (Richard William Wright): Keyboards are Mr. Wright's forte
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and from PatGoD up to The Wall, you'll find that not only has tickled
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the ivories (or plastics), but he's also managed to find time to write
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and sing a number of the Floyd's ditties, like TGGITS. However, during
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the making of The Wall film, Mr. Wright "went on holiday", never to
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return until the MLoR tours, where he once again, became a full paid up
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member of the band. Like Mr. Mason, he's written one solo outing (Wet
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Dream) and has done one collaboration piece with Dave Harris under
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the band name of Zee (Identity).
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Books:
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"The Work Of Hipgnosis - Walk Away Rene" published by Paper Tiger
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ISBN 0-905895088
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"Pink Floyd Lyric Book" published by Chappel Music Ltd
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ISBN 0 71371 280 5
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"Pink Floyd: A Visual Documentary by Miles" published by Omnibus Press
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ISBN 0-7119-1444-3
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"Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner
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published by Harmony Books
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"Pink Floyd: Bricks In The Wall" by Karl Dallas published by Shaposky Publishers
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"The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking (songbook)" by Roger Waters
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ISBN 0-7119-1959-3
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"Pink Floyd: Anthology" published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.
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ISBN 0-88188-445-6
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"Crazy Diamond - Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd" by Mike Watkinson & Pete
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Anderson published by Omnibus Press ISBN 0-7119-2397-3
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Fanzines:
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The Amazing Pudding:
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For details, write, including an SASE, to
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In The UK: In USA: Rest Of The Planet:
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Dave & Carole Walker Ken Langford Andy Mabbett
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81 Fossdale Moss 16385 West 8th Avenue 61 Meynell House
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Leyland Golden Browns Green
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Preston Colorado 80401 Birmingham
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PR5 3WS B20 1BE
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(TEL: 0772 456508) England
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Brain Damage:
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For details write, including an SASE, to
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In UK/Australia/NZ/ In Europe/ Eire: In USA/ Canada/ S. America:
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Japan/Hong Kong/
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South Africa:
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Glenn Povey Michael Perricone Hip Cat Records
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9 Pollard Avenue Witikonerstasse 460 1089 W. Dundee Road
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Denham CH 8053 Wheeling
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Uxbridge Zurich Illinois
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Middlesex Switzerland 60090 - 3908
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UB9 5JN USA
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England (TEL: (708) 537 0066)
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(TEL: 0895 833413)
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Things That Are Hidden:
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Ummagumma:
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LP cover:
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In the mirror on the wall, the last reflection is of the LP cover for 'ASFoS'
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Meddle:
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Spoken Words:
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"One of these days I'm gunna cut you into little pieces" spoken by Nick
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Mason.
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Hidden Tunes:
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One Of These Days: during a "quieter" section, you can apparently hear
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Mr Wright, playing a few bars of the Dr Who theme tune.
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Fearless: Crowd at the end are singing "You'll never walk alone", which
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is actually from a Rogers & Hammerstein musical, but was recorded here at
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a Liverpool football (soccer) match. The chant at the end is "Liverpool".
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Echoes: The screeching noises in the middle, are made by Dave using a
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bottleneck on his fender.
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Live At Pompeii:
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Things to look out for:
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Nick Mason breaking a drum stick during 'One Of These Days...'
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The Dog in Madmoiselle Nobs, keeping its eyes on the camera.
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DSOTM:
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Spoken words:
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Speak To Me:
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"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been
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over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."
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"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
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most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even
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if you're not mad..."
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On The Run:
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[female announcer, announcing flights at airport, including 'Rome']
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"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"
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TGGITS:
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"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
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don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
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There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."
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"I never said I was frightened of dying"
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Money/ Us & Them:
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"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
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"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
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"I certainly was in the right!"
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"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a
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bruising!"
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"Yeah!"
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"Why does anyone do anything?"
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"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
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"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
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why he wasn't coming up on freely(?) 11, after I was yelling and
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screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely(?) 11.
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It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"
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Us & Them:
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"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short,
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sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off
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lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
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It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners
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don't cost nothing do they, eh?"
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Brain Damage:
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"HuHuHuHu! I can't think of anything to say except, HuHuHuHu! I think
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it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"
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Eclipse:
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"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact
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it's all dark."
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Hidden Tunes:
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Specifically on the CD versions of the album, there is supposedly some
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music as the heartbeat fades away at the end of Eclipse fades. You basically
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have to turn the volume right the way up at this point, and hopefully you
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will hear a faint jingle being played "as if someone left a radio on in the
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studio". There's some opinion that it might be The Beatles performing Ticket
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To Ride in the studio next door (highly unlikely, as they'd disbanded a
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couple of years before!)
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ANP:
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LP cover:
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The phrases that are represented by the pictures on the cover
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'A Frog In The Throught'
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'A Fork In The Road'
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'A Kettle Of Fish'
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'Laughing All The Way To The Bank'
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'A Nip In The Air'
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'...'
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WYWH:
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LP cover:
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The Pictures on the various sides of the cover and inner sleeve,
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are there to help display the theme of absence in the Album. In its original
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form, the LP is covered in a black shrink-wrap with the famous shaking hands
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logo - making the cover picture 'absent'. The shaking hands represents a
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false gesture of presence. The Front cover of the album, has two men shaking
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hands, one of whom is on fire - represents someone 'getting burnt' ("Like
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falling in love, and then suddenly being jilted"). The back cover shows a
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Pink Floyd salesman, who is "selling his soul" - he has no wrists, no ankles,
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and no facial features. On the front of the inner-sleeve, you see a man
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diving into the water, but not making a splash - he has presence, but an
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absence of trace. Finally on the back of the inner sleeve, there's the red
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veil - a way of hiding the face. Behind the veil a (nude) figure can be seen.
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Spoken Words:
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Wish You Were Here:
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"...and diciplinary remains, mercifully"
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"Yes, yes. Now with you Derek, this star nonsense..."
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"Yes, yes."
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"Now which is it ..."
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"... I'm sure of it ..."
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[NB. on the WYWH tour, they used to use bits from the local broadcasts of
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the city they were in]
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Animals:
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UK/ Rest Of The World Crossover:
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The line "Hey you Whitehouse", doesn't actually mean *THE* Whitehouse in
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Washington, but rather Mrs Mary Whitehouse, UK head of the National Viewers
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and Listeners Association, which campaign for what they consider to be moral
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standards (e.g. no sex on TV, etc.)
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LP cover:
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As much as a painting as it may look, the cover is a photograph of the
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famous London landmark, Battersea Power Station, and, yes, they really did
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float that pig above the chimney stacks. (It got away, but that's another
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story)
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Spoken Words:
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Sheep:
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"THE LORD IS MY SHEPERD, I SHALL NOT WANT
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HE MAKES ME DOWN TO LIE
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THROUGH PASTURES GREEN HE LEADETH ME THE SILENT WATERS BY.
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WITH BRIGHT KNIVES HE RELEASETH MY SOUL.
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HE MAKETH ME TO HANG ON HOOKS IN HIGH PLACES.
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HE CONVERTETH ME TO LAMB CUTLETS.
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FOR LO, HE HATH GREAT POWER, AND GREAT HUNGER.
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WHEN COMETH THE DAY WE LOWLY ONES,
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THROUGH QUIET REFLECTION, AND GREAT DEDICATION,
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MASTER THE ART OF KARATE.
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LO, WE SHALL RISE UP,
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AND THEN WE'LL MAKE THE BUGGERS EYES WATER."
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The Wall:
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Spoken Words:
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In The Flesh?: At the end of the song, Roger Screams
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* "Lights! Turn on the sound effects! Action!"
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* "Drop it, drop it on 'em! Drop it on them!!!!!"
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Another Brick In The Wall part 1:
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"You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!"
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The Happiest Days Of Our Lives: After "...hurt the children anyway they
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could...", you can hear an "OOF!" of someone being hit in the
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background.
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Another Brick In The Wall part 2:
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"Wrong, Do it again!"
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"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
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have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
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"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
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Goodbye Blue Sky:
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"Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky"
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"The 11:15 from Newcastle is now approaching"
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* "The 11:18 arrival...."
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Empty Spaces: The everso infamous secret message:
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"Congratulations, You have just discovered the secret message.
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Please send your answer to 'Old Pink',
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Care of the funny farm, Chalfont..." - Spoken By Roger
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[...interrupted...]
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"Roger, Caroline's on the phone..." - Unknown Voice
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Young Lust:
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[Phone rings..Clunk of receiver being lifted]
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"Hello..?"
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* "Yes, a collect call for Mrs Floyd from Mr Floyd.
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* Will you accept the charges from United States?"
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[clunk! of phone being put down]
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"Oh, He hung up! That's your residence, right? I wonder why he hung up?
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Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife there to
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answer?"
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[Phone rings again...clunk of receiver being picked up]
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"Hello?"
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"This is united states calling, are we reaching...
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[interrupted by phone being put down]
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"See he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering."
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[whirr of connection being closed]
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On Of My Turns:
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"Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?
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[Film in background: "I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to startle you!]
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"This place is bigger than our apartment!
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[Film: "Let me know when you're entering a room"
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"Yes sir!"]
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"erm, Can I get a drink of water?
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[Film: "I was wondering about ..."]
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"You want some, huh?"
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[Film: "Yes"]
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"Oh wow, look at this tub? Do you wanna take baaaath?"
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[Film: "I'll have to find out from Mrs. Bancroft what time she wants to
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meet us, for her main ..."]
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"What are watching?"
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[Film: "If you'll just let me know as soon as you can ... Mrs Bancroft"
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"Mrs Bancroft ..."]
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"Hello?"
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[Film: "I don't understand ..."]
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"Are you feeling okay?..."
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Another Brick In The Wall part 3:
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[Sound of many TV's coming on, all on different channels]
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"The Bulls are already out there"
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Pink: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!"
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"This Roman Meal bakery thought you'd like to know."
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Hey You / Is There Anybody Out There?:
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[Click of TV being turned on]
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"Well, only got an hour of daylight left. Better get started"
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"Isnt it unsafe to travel at night?"
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"It'll be a lot less safe to stay here. You're father's gunna pick up
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our trail before long"
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* "Can Loca ride?"
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* "Yeah, I can ride... Magaret, time to go! Maigret, thank you for
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everything"
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"Goodbye Chenga"
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"Goodbye miss ..."
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"I'll be back"
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Nobody Home:
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"Alright, I'll take care of them part of the time, but there's somebody
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else that needs taking care of in Washington"
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"Who's that?"
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"Rose Pilchitt!"
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"Rose Pilchitt? Who's that?"
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[Kid screams in background. foreground: "Shut Up!"]
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"36-24-36 [laughter] does that answer your question?"
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[foreground: "Oi! I've got a little black book with me poems in!"]
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"Who's she?"
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"She was in the 5th armoured division in 1951 ... " (?)
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...
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After second 'OOH Babe!, When I pick up the phone...' you can hear:
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"Surprise, surprise, surprise..." (from Gomer Pyle show)
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At end of song:
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"Where the hell are you?"
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"Over 47 german planes were destroyed with the loss of only 15 of our
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own aircraft"
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"Where the hell are you Simon?"
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[Machine gun sound, followed by plane crashing]
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Bring The Boys Back Home:
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"Wrong! Do it again!"
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"Time to go! [knock, knock, knock, knock]
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"Are you feeling okay?"
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"There's a man answering, but he keeps hanging up!"
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Is there anybody out there?
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Run Like Hell:
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"Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd"
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"Hammer, Hammer"
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"Hey, open up! HaHaHaHaHaaaaaaaaaa!
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[sound of car skidding, followed by loud scream]
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Waiting For The Worms: Pink on megaphone:
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"Einse, svei, drei, alle!"
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We're {waiting to succeed} and going to convene outside Brixton
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Town Hall where we're going to be...
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WAITING...
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to cut out the...(etc)
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The Worms will convene outside Brixton Bus Station. We'll be moving
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along at about 12 o'clock down Stockwell Road {....
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......} {Abbot's Road } {.....} twelve minutes
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to three we'll be moving along Lambeth Road towards Vauxhall Bridge.
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Now when we get to the other side of Vauxhall Bridge we're in
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Westminster {Borough } area. It's quite possible we may encounter
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some {.....} by the way we go. {... ..}."
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Outside The Wall / In The Flesh?: The quite famous tape loop! At the end of
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Outside The Wall can be heard the words "Isn't this Where..." and at the
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beginning of In the Flesh? the words "...we came in?".
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The Wall: The Film:
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Things to look out for:
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That film in the background:
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The Dambusters.
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The change in song order: Order runs:
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The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (sung by Vera Lynn)
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When The Tigers Broke Free (part one)
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In The Flesh? (sung by Bob Geldof)
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The Thin Ice
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Another Brick In The Wall (part one)
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When The Tigers Broke Free (part two)
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Goodbye Blue Sky
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The Happiest Days Of our Lives
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Another Brick In The Wall (part two)
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Mother
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What Shall We Do Now?
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Young Lust
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One Of My Turns
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Don't Leave Me Know
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Another Brick In The Wall (part three)
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Goodbye Cruel World
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Is There Anybody Out There?
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Nobody Home
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Vera
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Bring The Boys Back Home (extended)
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Comfortably Numb
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In The Flesh (sung by Bob Geldof)
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Run Like Hell
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Waiting For The Worms
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Stop (sung/spoken by Bob Geldof)
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The Trial
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Outside The Wall (extended)
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|
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives: The teacher reads a poem from Pink's "Little
|
|
Black Book", and they're actually lyrics from Money from DSOTM, thus:
|
|
"Money, get back, I'm alright jack, keep your hands off my stack.
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|
New car, caviar, four star day dream, think I'll buy me a football team"
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Stop: contains different lyrics, some of which made their way onto The
|
|
Final Cut, and others onto The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking, thus:
|
|
"Stooooooooooooooooooooooooooop!!!
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Do you remember me? - Now on Your Possible
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The way we used to be? - Pasts, on The Final Cut
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Do you think we should have been closer? -
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I put out my hand, just to touch your soft hair - Now on 5:11am
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To make sure in the darkness, that you were still there - (The Moment
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And I have to admit I was just a little afraid - of Clarity)
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on Pro's & Cons
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Of the ones within under their dirty old macs - ?
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and the ones who were pointing the guns in their backs - ?
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|
Stop, Stop, I wanna go home...(etc)"
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Goofs:
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When we see the close up of Pink's Mickey Mouse watch, it's on the wrong
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way round...
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...
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The Final Cut:
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Spoken Words:
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|
The Post War Dream:
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|
[Car sound, switching on of car radio]
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|
"...announced plans to build a nuclear fallout shelter at Peterborough
|
|
in Cambridgeshire..."
|
|
[phzzt! of retuning]
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"...three high court judges have cleared the way..."
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|
[phzzt!]
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"...It was announced today, that the replacement for the Atlantic
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|
Conveyor the container ship lost in the Falklands conflict would be
|
|
built in Japan, a spokesman for..."
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|
[phzzt!]
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"...moving in. They say the third world countries, like Bolivia, which
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|
produce the drug are suffering from rising violence...[fades]"
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|
Your Possible pasts:
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[Cattle truck noises]
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|
"Ranks! Fire!"
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The Gunner Dream:
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|
"Oi! A real one ..."
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|
Paranoid Eyes:
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|
"I'll tell you what, I'll give you three blacks, and play you for five
|
|
..."
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|
"Ta! You was unlucky there son"
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|
"Time gentleman!"
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|
"Oi!"
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|
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert:
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|
"Oi...Get your filthy hands off my desert!"
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"What did he say?"
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|
The Fletcher Memorial Home:
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|
"Hello Maggie!"
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|
"Who's the bald chap?"
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|
"Goodbye!"
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|
The Final Cut:
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|
"Hello? Listen, I think I've got it. Okay, listen its a HaHa!"
|
|
Not Now John:
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"s'cusi dove il bar
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|
(What?)
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se para collo pou eine toe bar
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|
s'il vous plait ou est le bar
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(...say it in English!...)
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|
oi, where's the fucking bar John?
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|
(Oh, now you're talking!)"
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|
Oh! Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the day
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|
Down!
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|
Go, Maggie!
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|
Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, now!
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|
Two Suns:
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|
"Oh no!"
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|
"[scream] Daddy, Daddy!"
|
|
"...and now the weather. Tomorrow will be cloudy with scattered showers
|
|
spreading from the east ... with an expected high of 4000 degrees
|
|
celsius..."
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|
Pro's And Con's:
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|
"THE PROS AND CONS OF HITCH-HIKING
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(A brief explanation) <- presumably written by Waters
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|
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|
4:30 AM SCENE I
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|
(A suburban bedroom somewhere near London)
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|
"Shane" plays on the TV.
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|
An Englishman, struggling with a nightmare wakes
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|
his American wife.
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|
She speaks.
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Wife: "Wake up, you're dreaming"
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Man: "What?"
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|
Wife: "You're dreaming"
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|
The man mumbles disjointedly about his dream.
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|
His wife soothes him back to sleep.
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|
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|
4:31 AM SCENE II
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|
The man returns to his dream.
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|
He and his wife are driving through continental
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|
Europe. There is a vague feeling of threat.
|
|
The European psyche still shrinks from memories
|
|
of The Jackboot. Borders are dangerous places.
|
|
The law is a fickle friend.
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|
They pick up two hitch-hikers, a beautiful girl
|
|
and a hooded terrorist...
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|
Lust conquers fear, the man courts the girl. His
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|
sensible family sedan metamorphosis into a mettalic
|
|
green Lamborghini.
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|
The girl is impressed.
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|
They go for a drive.
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|
He is about to seduce her when... Fear conquers lust.
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|
|
4:37 AM SCENE III
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|
Paralysed by fear, he is whisked back to suburbia
|
|
and attacked in his own home by a gang of Arab
|
|
Terrorists.
|
|
He rages in his impotence.
|
|
|
|
4:38 AM SCENE IV
|
|
(A small Hotel overlooking the Rhine)
|
|
The man and the girl eat dinner.
|
|
He takes her upstairs and orders breakfast.
|
|
He locks the door.
|
|
He reaches out for her...
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|
|
|
4:40 AM SCENE V
|
|
Reaching out in his dream he wakes his wife again.
|
|
She is not a pleased woman.
|
|
He is horny.
|
|
She rejects him and goes back to sleep.
|
|
He lies in bed, brittle and angry.
|
|
"Bloody toast crumbs"
|
|
He silently rants.
|
|
"Hey girl, take out the dagger and let's have a
|
|
stab at the sexual revolution."
|
|
He falls asleep again and dreams of a geographical
|
|
solution to his marital problems - They will return
|
|
to his wife's native land and live off it.
|
|
She will be fulfilled.
|
|
They will be happy.
|
|
|
|
4:50 AM SCENE VI
|
|
(A cabin in Wyoming)
|
|
The experiment fails. Through the trials and
|
|
tribulations of self-reliance the couple polarise.
|
|
She falls in love with a "friend from the East".
|
|
They part.
|
|
|
|
4:56 AM SCENE VII
|
|
(The edge of a highway - somewhere in the States)
|
|
The man is now alone.
|
|
He is the hitch-hiker.
|
|
A truck pulls up.
|
|
"Hey kid, you looking for a lift?... Get on up here."
|
|
He climbs in and whines to the truck driver. The
|
|
truck driver, happy to join in the battle of the sexes,
|
|
commiserates for a while.
|
|
Then, realising that our hero is about to vomit all over
|
|
his highly polished cowboy boots, he throws him out
|
|
of the rig.
|
|
|
|
5:01 AM SCENE VIII
|
|
(The Gutter)
|
|
Things go from bad to worse.
|
|
|
|
5:06 AM SCENE IX
|
|
(A truckstop)
|
|
A waitress with a heart of gold sympathizes with our
|
|
hero reaffirming his basic belief in life and love.
|
|
He wakes.
|
|
|
|
5:10 AM SCENE X
|
|
(Back in Suburbia)
|
|
As he awakes our hero experiences a moment of clarity.
|
|
He feels at one with the world.
|
|
He has the answer? <- N.B. the question mark is Rog's, not mine
|
|
|
|
5:11 AM SCENE XI
|
|
(The bedroom - One minute later.)
|
|
The moment fades.
|
|
The man is afraid.
|
|
He reaches out and touches his wife's hair.
|
|
She is awake.
|
|
He loves her..."
|
|
|
|
Radio K.A.O.S:
|
|
Spoken Words:
|
|
Beginning (just as morse code starts up):
|
|
"Talk to me Gilmour"
|
|
End (as morse code ends):
|
|
"That's it!"
|
|
Morse Code at beginning:
|
|
Just random letters.
|
|
Morse Code at end:
|
|
"Now the past is over but you are not alone
|
|
Together we'll fight Sylvester Stallone
|
|
We will not be dragged down in his South China Sea
|
|
of macho bullshit and mediocrity"
|
|
The Story:
|
|
"Radio KAOS by Roger Waters:
|
|
Benny is a welsh coal miner. He is a radio ham. He is 23 years old,
|
|
married to Molly. They have a son, young Ben aged 4, and a new baby.
|
|
They look after Benny's twin brother Billy, who is apparently a
|
|
vegetable. The mine is closed by the market forces. The Male Voice
|
|
Choir stops singing, the village is dying.
|
|
One night Benny takes Billy on a pub crawl. Drunk in a brightly-lit
|
|
shopping mall, Benny vents his anger on a shop window full of multiple
|
|
TV images of Margaret Thatcher's mocking condescension. In defiance,
|
|
he steals a cordless 'phone. Later that night, Benny cavorts
|
|
dangerously on the parapet of a motorway footbridge, in theatrical
|
|
protest at the tabloid press. That same night, a cab driver is killed
|
|
by a concrete block dropped off a similar bridge. The police come to
|
|
question Benny; he hides the cordless 'phone under the cushion of
|
|
Billy's wheelchair.
|
|
Billy is different, he can receive radio waves directly without the
|
|
aid of a tuner; he explores the cordless 'phone, recognising its
|
|
radioness.
|
|
Benny is sent to prison. Billy feels as if half of him has been cut
|
|
off. He misses Benny's nightly conversations with radio hams in
|
|
foreign parts. Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to stay with his
|
|
great uncle David, who had emigrated to the USA during the war. Much
|
|
as Billy likes Uncle David and the sunshine and all the new radio in
|
|
LA, he cannot adjust to the cultural upheaval and the loss of Benny,
|
|
who for him is "home". Uncle David, now an old man, is haunted by
|
|
having worked on the Manhattan project during World War II, designing
|
|
the Atom Bomb, and seeks to atone. He also is a radio ham; he often
|
|
talks to other hams about the Black Hills of his youth, the Male
|
|
Voice Choir, about home. He is saddened by the use of telecommunication
|
|
to trivialise important issues, the soap opera state. However, Live
|
|
Aid has decynicised him to an extent. Billy listens to David and hears
|
|
the truth the old man speaks.
|
|
Billy experiments with his cordless 'phone, he learns to make calls.
|
|
He accesses computers and speech synthesizers, he learns to speak.
|
|
Billy makes contact with Jim, a DJ at Radio KAOS, a renegade rock
|
|
station fighting a lone rear guard action against format radio. Billy
|
|
perceives this as an act of political "entertainment" fireworks to
|
|
focus attention away from problems at "home".
|
|
Billy has developed his expertise with the cordless 'phone to the
|
|
point where he can now control the most powerful computers in the
|
|
world. He plans an "entertainment" of his own. He simulates nuclear
|
|
attacks everywhere, but de-activates the military capabilities of "the
|
|
powers that be" to retaliate.
|
|
In extremes, perceptions change. Panic, comedy, compassion. In a SAC
|
|
bunker, a soldier in a white cravat turns a key to launch the counter
|
|
attack. Nothing happens; impotently he kicks the console, hurting his
|
|
foot. He watches the approaching blips on the radar screen. As impact
|
|
approaches, he thinks of his wife and kids, he puts his fingers in his
|
|
ears.
|
|
Silence. White out. Black Out. Lights out. It didn't happen, we're
|
|
still alive. Billy has drained the earth of power to create his
|
|
illusion.
|
|
All over the dark side of the earth, candles are lit. In the pub in
|
|
Billy's home village in Wales one man starts to sing; the other men
|
|
join in.
|
|
The Tide is Turning.
|
|
Billy is home."
|
|
The Script:
|
|
"Jim: This is K.A.O.S. You and I are listening to KAOS in Los Angeles.
|
|
Let's go to the telephone now and take a request.
|
|
Billy: Hello, I'm Billy.
|
|
Jim: Yes?
|
|
Billy: I hear radio waves in my head.
|
|
Jim: You hear Radio waves in your head? Ah! Is there a request that
|
|
you have tonight for KAOS?"
|
|
|
|
Radio Waves
|
|
|
|
"Jim: Alright, that's a song called Radio Waves. You are listening to
|
|
KAOS in Los Angeles and we've got Billy on the line.
|
|
Billy: I'm from the valleys.
|
|
Jim: You're from the valley?
|
|
Billy: No, Jim you schmuck, the Valleys; male voice choirs, Wales.
|
|
Jim: Ah, you're from Wales! Now is this sperm or bluetip?
|
|
Billy: Ha, ha, ha, ha. Very funny Jim.
|
|
Jim: Sorry.
|
|
Billy: Me and Benny went out.
|
|
Jim: Who's Benny?"
|
|
|
|
Who Needs Information
|
|
|
|
"Jim: Um.
|
|
(Jim light's a cigarette)
|
|
Jim: So you brother's in jail?"
|
|
|
|
Me Or Him
|
|
"Welsh Policeman: Mobile One Two to Central.
|
|
Welsh Policeman: We have a multiple on the A465.
|
|
Welsh Policeman: Ambulance, over.
|
|
Welsh Policeman: Roger Central, over and out."
|
|
|
|
"Radio announcer: Do you think Iranian terrorists would have taken
|
|
Americans hostage if Ronald Regan were president? Do you really think
|
|
the Russians would have invaded Afghanistan if Ronald Regan were
|
|
president? Do you really think third-rate military dictators would
|
|
laugh at America and burn out flag in contempt if Ronald Regan were
|
|
president?
|
|
Concerned Citizen: Well it might work!
|
|
Hostage: We as a group do most importantly want to beseech President
|
|
Regan and our fellow Americas to refrain from any form of military or
|
|
violent means as an attempt, no matter how noble or heroic, to secure
|
|
our freedom.
|
|
Concerned Citizen: Sure! Only it's going to be mighty dangerous for
|
|
you, Cassidy.
|
|
Hoppy's faithful sidekick: Guess you don't know Hopalong Cassidy,
|
|
Mister. Adventure's his bread, excitement's his butter and danger, why
|
|
to him that's like Strawberry Jam to top it off.
|
|
Jim: This is some live rock and roll at KAOS, where rock and roll comes
|
|
out of chaos and a song called "The Powers That Be"..."
|
|
|
|
The Powers That Be
|
|
|
|
"Billy: Goodnight Jim.
|
|
Jim: Goodnight, Billy.
|
|
Uncle David's Great Dane: Woof, woof, woof!"
|
|
|
|
The canyon - daytime. Billy plays with Great Uncle David's Great Dane.
|
|
Paraquat Kelly: Bull heads, three red snapper, one pink snapper and
|
|
your Pacific coastal trench hosemonster fish.
|
|
Cynthia Fox: Ohhh! At Sky Davids juke joint of joy reports, forty under
|
|
the console giggle stick ling cod, twenty three purple perches four
|
|
sledgehammerhead sharks, and what a surprise eightyfour crabs and no
|
|
red snappers.
|
|
Paraquat Kelly: Hey and that'll do for the triumphant return of the
|
|
fish report with a beat.
|
|
Jim: We think of it as mainstreet, but to the rest of the country it's
|
|
Sunset Strip. You're listening to KAOS in Los Angeles."
|
|
|
|
Sunset Strip
|
|
|
|
"Californian Wierdo: I don't like fish, marine fish.
|
|
Jim: You are listening to KAOS in Los Angeles.
|
|
Californian Wierdo: I don't like fish.
|
|
Jim: Yes, we've established that. Ah! Do you have a request?
|
|
Californian Wierdo: Shell fish, guppy, salmon, shrimp and crap and
|
|
lobster, flounder, I hate fish, but I think most of all I hate fresh
|
|
fish,like trout, I hate fresh trout. My least-hated, favourite fish
|
|
would be sole. That way you don't have to see the eyes. Soul has no
|
|
eyes.
|
|
Jim: Oh no!
|
|
Californian Wierdo: I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog.
|
|
Jim: Thank You.
|
|
Californian Wierdo: I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog.
|
|
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog. I'd like to be home
|
|
with my monkey...
|
|
Jim: They don't care. Shut Up. Play the record."
|
|
|
|
Home
|
|
"Jim: Oh God!"
|
|
|
|
Four Minutes
|
|
"Billy: Four minutes and counting.
|
|
Jim: O.K.
|
|
Billy: They pressed the button, Jim.
|
|
Jim: They pressed the button Billy, what button?
|
|
Billy: The big red one.
|
|
Jim: You mean *the* button?
|
|
Billy: Goodbye, Jim.
|
|
Jim: Goodbye! Oh yes. This ain't au revoir, it's goodbye! Ha! Ha!
|
|
This is KAOS. It's beautiful balmy Southern California summer day.
|
|
It's 80 degrees...I said balmy...I could say bomby...Ha! Ha!...O.K.
|
|
I'm Jim and this is Radio KAOS and with only four minutes left
|
|
to us, let's use this as wisely as possible.
|
|
Molly: Everybody's got someone they call home.
|
|
Jim: Out at Dodger Stadium. It's the bottom of the seventh, the Dodgers
|
|
are leading three to nothing over the Giants, and for those of you
|
|
who are looking to go surfing tomorrow, too bad.
|
|
('Phone rings.)
|
|
Jim: I'm kinda lost in here to tell you the truth...
|
|
O.K. good. Ladies and gentlemen, if the reports that we are getting
|
|
are correct, this could be it. Billy, if your're listening,
|
|
please call now."
|
|
"Jim: Billy, if your're listening, please call.
|
|
Californian Wierdo: Soul has no eyes.
|
|
Molly: Goodbye, little spy in the sky. They say that camera don't lie.
|
|
Am I happy, am I sad, am I good, am I bad?
|
|
Jim: Billy, if your're listening, please call.
|
|
Californian Wierdo: Soul has no eyes. Soul has no eyes.
|
|
Billy: Ten, nine, eight, seven...
|
|
Margaret Thatcher: Our own independent nuclear deterrent has helped to
|
|
keep the peace.
|
|
Billy: Six, five, four, three...
|
|
Ordinary Person: ...you've got a job...
|
|
Billy: Two, one...
|
|
Margaret Thatcher: For nearly forty years.
|
|
Jim: Goodbye Billy."
|
|
|
|
The Tide Is Turning"
|
|
|
|
MLoR:
|
|
Spoken Words:
|
|
Signs Of Life:
|
|
"In the child like view (?) of the world went, nothing requested,
|
|
nothing requested, nothing request..."
|
|
"Other people requested it"
|
|
"I do not find be a satin (???) nothing replaced it
|
|
(hard to distinguish the next bit due to multiple voices)
|
|
I do not like being,
|
|
Someone who knows what's right,
|
|
I do not like being..."
|
|
Learning To Fly:
|
|
"Pilot: (garbled but, it sounds like 'mixture')
|
|
Copilot: set; mixtures, rich.
|
|
Pilot: propellers (garbled) forward.
|
|
Copilot: flaps, set (garbled) 10 degrees
|
|
lots of garbled with the occasional 'check' audible
|
|
Pilot: (garbled but, sounds like 'altimeter' ????) on
|
|
Copilot: strobes on
|
|
Tower #1: confirm (garbled but, I think it's the planes ID) when your
|
|
ready for departure
|
|
Pilot: I want to hear this and, I want (garbled but, I think it's
|
|
'to know how strong the wind is')
|
|
Tower #1?: (some strange code words)
|
|
Tower #2: (garbled) for take off, winds blowing at 10 knots
|
|
|
|
DSoT: The video:
|
|
Things to look out for:
|
|
During the titles at the end of the video, you will see that the words
|
|
"Original Pig Concept: R. Waters"
|
|
This was because, when the current Floyd line up went out on the road, they
|
|
used the (infamous) inflatable pig, to float above the audience during the
|
|
song 'One Of These Days...'. Mr Waters, however, brought (yet another) law
|
|
suit against them, stating that the pig was all his idea. So to comply with
|
|
this, they credited him with it, as well as changing the pigs gender!
|
|
|
|
The Wall: Live In Berlin: (The Video)
|
|
The 'touch up work':
|
|
'The last few thousand of the quarter million toiling out of the Potsdamer
|
|
Platz, Berlin,20 minutes after the end of 'The Wall' were transfixed to hear
|
|
the whole extravaganza starting up again behind them. Because of substantial
|
|
technical hitches which afflicted the early part of the performance -
|
|
including an expanse of dead silence at one point - and the requirements of a
|
|
live album due for genuine "rush" release within weeks, Roger Waters and the
|
|
producers had decided they should go straight back out and fill in the
|
|
blanks. A few days later, with a candour unusual, veering towards the unique,
|
|
in the history of the live album, Waters headed sceptics off at the pass by
|
|
revealing the exact extent of the "retouching" involved. The unofficial
|
|
after-midnight performance provided The Thin Ice (with Ute Lemper). Another
|
|
Brick In The Wall part 1 and The Band's parts on Mother (Sinead O'Connors
|
|
vocal, interrupted on the night,was taken from the dress rehearsal). Bryan
|
|
Adams went into the studio to debug his version of Young Lust, Cyndi Lauper
|
|
did likewise for Another Brick part 2, and they both added some
|
|
extracurricular work on The Tide Is Turning, the entire cast encore. All the
|
|
proceeds from the record are, of course, going to Leonard Cheshire's
|
|
International Fund For Disaster Relief.'
|
|
From 'Q' Magazine
|
|
The song order: Again, different from the original album. The differences:
|
|
starts with When The Tigers Broke Free, remains true to the original until
|
|
after Goodbye Blue Sky, where instead of Empty Spaces, we have What Shall
|
|
We Do Now, ( which is the same as the film version). There's an extra 'jam'
|
|
at the end of Another Brick 3, and the whole of The Show Must Go On is
|
|
excluded. To rap it up, Waters adds his 1987 Radio K.A.O.S 'hit' single
|
|
The Tide Is Turning, after The Trial.
|
|
|
|
FAQ:
|
|
---
|
|
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Is there supposed to be a 'Twist' in the sound at the end of "The Great Gig In
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The Sky" on DSOTM?
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Well its not the fault of your equipment! The 'Twist' is definitely present on
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recording of the album, it is safe to assume that it isnt. PF are real
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perfectionists when it comes to album making, so they'd have re-recorded it
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if wasn't supposed to be there.
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How do I tell whether a copy of DSOTM is Quadrophonic?
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The catalogue number begins with Q4SHVL
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What's so good about the gold (MFSL) PF CDs?
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Apart from being gold plated (and, therefore, supposedly to last longer than a
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normal CD), the pressings are taken from the original master recordings of
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their albums, rather than later generations that some of CD releases (namely
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The Capitol ones) seem to be taken from. They are, however, more expensive
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than the domestic releases (averaging around twice as much). Alternatively,
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you might try for the (european) Harvest pressings, or the 'Black' Japanese
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ones, as they both sound almost as good as the MFSL ones, and aren't as
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expensive.
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What MFSL releases are currently available?
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For those with unlimited overdraft facilities, you can get hold 24 carat gold
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plated version of DSOTM, MEDDLE, and The Wall.
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I've seen a cover of ANP with a naked woman with three breasts. Is this rare?
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This is actually a bootleg called 'A Great Set', a triple album.
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What is "Objects Of Fantasy"?
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"Objects Of Fantasy", is an album of floyd music played by the Royal
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Philharmonic Orchestra, and arranged by David Palmer [available on RCA records
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catalogue no. 7960-2-RC]. As to whether it's any good, all depends on how
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much you mind people a) Covering Floyd songs, b) Rearranging them.
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Did The current floyd line up originally start their MLoR tour with a different
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set?
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Yes, they originally had started the set with Echoes, and had Shine On... as
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a second encore, but changed it after only a few shows to that of DSoT fame.
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(to be accurate, it was played at shows between 9th and 25th September 1987).
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Also, for On The Run, they originally used the plane gag, from the original
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DSOTM tour. This was replaced by the bed.
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What is the song Wish You Were Here about?
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"The lyrics which make the most sense to me now, and I'm remembering these
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from a long time ago, are the lines:-
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And did you exchange
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A walk on part in the war
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For a lead role in a cage
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It was very much suggested to me by my mother, by my whole background that
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what life was really about was being an essentially good person, doing good
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things for other people, the old notion of being here to be good, and
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working towards Utopia, brotherhood of man, all of us living together as
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brothers and sisters in a brave new world. The lines are about
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relinquishing the sense of needing to be a social worker or a freedom
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fighter or whatever. When you exchange the walk on part in the war you give
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up your role as a do-gooder, your social role. The lead role in the cage is
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"up there", the rock'n roller playing the lead role in the consumer
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society. Being a rock'n roller is a dominant image of success in our
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society, but it is a cage because the constraints are often just as great
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as they ever were. In fact they may even be greater... you've got more
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money, but you have more things, you're more involved in the tyranny of
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things. You can't buy a feeling that you're alright. You can't buy your way
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to peace of mind. You can't buy an illusion that things are getting better.
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In a way it's a schizophrenic song. It's directed at my other half if you
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like... the battling elements within myself. There's the bit that's
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concerned with other people, the bit that one applauds in oneself, then
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there's the grasping avaricious, selfish little kid who wants to get his
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hands the sweets and have them all. The song slips in and out of both
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personi so the bit that always wants to win is feeling upset and
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plaintively saying to the other side, "wish you were here". "
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Roger Waters 1982
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...But of course, it's all a matter of personal opinion, really...
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Why is there a blank LP cover on the front cover of some versions of the
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Ummagumma album, and a other versions, this is filled in with the cover of the
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soundtrack to the musical 'GiGi'?
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It appears that US releases of Ummagumma had the 'GiGi' LP blanked out, due
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to permission difficulties. All the other versions have it though.
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Why did neither Waters or Gilmour sing "Have a Cigar" .
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Basically 'cos they both couldn't reach the notes! Roy Harper happened
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so they asked him to do it (which he did!). Roger is apparently 'unhappy'
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that he didn't sing it.
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Bob Ezrin : How did he get acquainted with the band, and what role has he
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to played in Pink Floyd in the recent years .
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Err, not quite sure how he got acquainted with the band (anyone?), but apart
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from co-producing The Wall (on which he also co-wrote The Trial), he's also
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co-produced Dave Gilmour's second solo piece, About Face, and todays Floyd's
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MLoR album, on which he also co-wrote Signs Of Life and Learning To Fly
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I recently picked up a disc by Nick and some guy by the name of Rick Fenn,
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titled Profiles ...could anyone help me out on info about it? What's the story
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on Fenn?
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Rick Fenn, is formerly of 10CC, and I think may have worked with Mike
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Oldfield. Most of Profiles (as you've probably found) is instrumental,
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with the exception of a couple of tracks, Lie For A Lie and Israel, whose
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lyrics were both written by Danny Peyronel. Dave Gilmour sings on Lie For
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A Lie. (which was released as single, BTW)
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Did Syd turn up during the WYWH sessions?
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"During the WYWH sessions a fat, shaven-headed person wearing grey Terylene
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trousers, a nylon shirt and string vest wandered into the studio. The band
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ignored the visitor and kept on playing and it was the visiting Andrew
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King who finally recognised their guest: 'Good God, it's Syd! How did you
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get like that?' To which Syd replied, 'I've got a very large fridge at home
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and I've been eating a lot of pork chops.' The whole event was slightly
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un-nerving since the theme of the album was based on Syd and his subsequent
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madness."
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Pink Floyd: The Illustrated Discography
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Where was DSoT filmed?
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At Nassau Coliseum, in Uniondale NY (Long Island), USA (over 2 nights)
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When and why did Rick Wright leave the band?
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Rick left during the filming of The Wall, which was not confirmed until the
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release of The Final Cut. Wright has been quoted in saying that it was Roger
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who effectively told the band that if he (Wright) didn't leave, he would scrap
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the whole Wall project. Given this pressure Wright, later, just separated
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from the band. There's are other rumours, that Wright had been taking mucho
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drugs, and was particularly fit to play anyway, and that Dave was also
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getting fed up with him too.
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Which One's Pink?
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Make up you own mind...
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