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Goodbye Blue Sky is the seventh and final studio album by Godley & Creme released in 1988. The album generated two singles, "A Little Piece of Heaven" (a top 30 hit in several countries across Europe) and "10,000 Angels", which featured a number of non-album b-sides.
The album artwork featured the life-masks of the four band members in front of a black wall; the masks were worn by the "surrogate band" [6] during the song "In the Flesh". "Goodbye Blue Sky" and parts of "Run Like Hell" were taken from the 17 June 1981 show, the very last performance by the four-man Pink Floyd until the 2005 Live 8 concert.
Godley & Creme released their final album, Goodbye Blue Sky, in 1988. This album abandoned electronic instruments and used harmonicas, organs, and guitars to tell the story of the earth on the brink of nuclear war. The pair ended their working relationship soon after the release of the album. In a 1997 interview, [4] Creme explained:
On Ann Wilson's 2007 solo album, Hope & Glory, there is a version with her sister Nancy. The Wilson sisters' band, Heart , also released a live version of the song on Dreamboat Annie Live . The song appears on Yonder Mountain String Band 's 2002 live album Mountain Tracks: Volume 2 as a hidden track after "Follow Me Down to the Riverside".
The album was released in a 2-CD format, as well as a 3-LP format. All tracks are written by Roger Waters, expect where noted. ... "Goodbye Blue Sky" ...
A two year old Waters is heard in the original recording of "Goodbye Blue Sky" on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. [2]The song opens with him saying "Look, mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky".
The Wall tells the story of Pink, an alienated young rock star who is retreating from society and isolating himself. At this point in the plot, the bitter and alienated Pink is attempting to reach anybody outside of his self-built wall.
The Wall Live was a worldwide [1] concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd. [2] [3] [4] The tour is the first time the Pink Floyd album The Wall has been performed in its entirety by the band or any of its former members since Waters performed the album live in Berlin 21 July 1990.