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November 23, 1981 |
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| Recorded:
1973-1981 |
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| Genre:
Progressive rock |
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| Length:
42:01 |
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| Label:
Harvest Records |
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| Columbia |
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| Producer:
Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, |
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Gilmour and Bob Ezrin
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Background
The title is completely facetious, considering
that Pink Floyd is not known for making particularly
danceable music. This is perhaps evidenced by
the album art, which featured a photograph of
balldancers guyed to the ground so they cannot
move. Former members of the Hipgnosis design team
did the cover. The inner sleeve had pictures of
dancers in either a white (UK) or black (U.S.)
background. The picture labels were a black background
with blue lines and red sketch lined dancers on
side one and reverse on side two.
The album contains alternate mixes of "Shine
On You Crazy Diamond" (which comprises parts
1, 2, 4 and 7) and "Another Brick in the
Wall (Part 2)" (which combines the intro
from the single mix with the album version which
fades out during the "if you don't eat your
meat" ending). Also, the track "Money"
was re-recorded as Capitol Records refused to
let Columbia Records in the U.S. use the track.
David Gilmour re-recorded the track himself playing
all of the drums, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar
and vocals and co-producing the song with James
Guthrie. Dick Parry played saxophone on the track
like he did the original. There are some slight
differences between the re-recorded version and
original, mainly in some parts of the saxophone
and guitar solos, also the drumming is noticeably
different than Nick Mason's.
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January
29, 1982 and Platinum on July 6, 1989 and Double
Platinum in August, 2001. The album reached #37
on the UK charts and #31 in the U.S.. Columbia
issued the remastered CD in 1997 in the U.S. and
most of the world save Europe. Then the 1997 remastered
CD was re-released in 2000 on Capitol Records
in the U.S. and EMI for the rest of the world
including Europe.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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