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| Album
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| Released:
September 8 - 9 1987 |
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| Recorded:
October 1986– May
1987 |
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| Genre:
Progressive rock |
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| Length:
51:14 |
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| Label:
EMI (UK) |
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| Columbia
(US) |
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| Producer:
Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour
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Background
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is Pink Floyd's 1987
album, the band's first release after the official
departure of Roger Waters from the band in 1985.
The album reached #3 on both the U.S. and UK charts.
It was released in the UK and the rest of Europe
on EMI and on Columbia Records for the rest of
the world.
After Roger Waters had declared Pink Floyd ended
in 1985, David Gilmour attempted to continue the
band together with Nick Mason. A bitter dispute
with Waters ensued, but Gilmour and Mason eventually
settled out of court for the legal right to continue
using the name Pink Floyd. In exchange, Waters
dissolved his former management partnership with
Steve O'Rourke and gained exclusive rights to
some traditional Pink Floyd imagery, including
the original flying pig design, almost all of
The Wall concept (all the songs except the three
for which Gilmour wrote the music, "Young
Lust," "Run Like Hell," and "Comfortably
Numb") and everything to do with The Final
Cut. Richard Wright re-joined the band during
the recording sessions for this album, but only
as a salaried session musician.
The recording sessions started in October 1986
as a new David Gilmour project. Gilmour revealed
on the Shine On and A Momentary Lapse of Reason
episodes of In the Studio with Redbeard that AMLoR
was almost his third solo album as the material
initially sounded too weak to be a PF album. Then
in the same interview said that by Christmas of
1986 that he had confidence to turn the album
into a Pink Floyd project.
Due to the minimalized contributions of Mason
and Wright, Lapse can technically be considered
Gilmour's third solo album as much as "The
Final Cut" can be considered a Roger Waters
solo album. However, he tried hard to make it
sound like a Pink Floyd album with synthesiser
vocal effects, other various sound effects, TV
recordings in the background of the songs, etc.
The music press responded with mostly negative
reviews of the album (though Rolling Stone claimed
it portended "a Floyd with a future"),
despite its heavy airplay rotation on video and
radio music stations. Waters himself described
it as "a pretty fair forgery or a good copy"
of a Pink Floyd record; his most generous appraisal
was that the album contained "maybe the odd
moment when I heard something and thought, 'Well,
maybe I'd have done something with that'."
But Waters also commented that to him, Pink Floyd
no longer existed. The music press also reported
that Gilmour had actually considered offering
an olive branch to Waters by asking him to help
with some of the lyrics.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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