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Producer (s) Pink Floyd. " Shine On You Crazy Diamond " is a nine-part Pink Floyd composition written by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, which was first performed on Pink Floyd's 1974 French tour and appeared in Pink Floyd's 1975 concept album Wish You Were Here. The song is written about and dedicated to founder member Syd ...
Pink Floyd. David Gilmour – guitar, lead and backing vocals, pedal steel guitar on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," and "The Great Gig in the Sky," Synthi AKS on “On the Run,” [2] Hammond organ on "The Great Gig in the Sky" Roger Waters – bass, lead and backing vocals, additional keyboards on "Echoes" [3]
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest / EMI and Columbia / CBS Records. It is a rock opera which explores Pink, a jaded rock star, as he constructs a psychological "wall" of social isolation. The Wall topped the US charts for 15 weeks and reached number three in the UK ...
Wish You Were Hereis the ninth studio album by the English rockband Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Recordsin the UK and Columbia Recordsin the US, their first for the label. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Herewas recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI ...
—Alan di Perna, in Guitar World, May 2006 Rolling Stone critic Alan di Perna praised Gilmour's guitar work as integral to Pink Floyd's sound, and described him as the most important guitarist of the 1970s, "the missing link between Hendrix and Van Halen ". Rolling Stone named him the 14th greatest guitarist of all time. In 2006, Gilmour said of his technique: "[My] fingers make a distinctive ...
Pink Floyd promoted it with a tour of the US and Europe; the tour sold more than 5 million tickets and made around $100 million in gross income. A live album and video, Pulse , was released in 1995. Unused material from the Division Bell sessions became part of Pink Floyd's next album, The Endless River (2014).
The Wall Live 1980–81 (2000) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81 is a live album released by Pink Floyd in 2000. It is a live rendition of The Wall, produced and engineered by James Guthrie, with tracks selected from the August 1980 and June 1981 performances at Earls Court in London. The album was first released in the United ...
Roger Waters. Producer (s) Pink Floyd. Official audio. "Echoes" on YouTube. " Echoes " is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the sixth and last track on their 1971 album Meddle. It is 231⁄2 minutes long, the second longest of their discography, eight seconds shorter than Atom Heart Mother Suite, and takes up the entire second ...