About Face (album)

Term

  • 45:18 ( Original Album )
  • 45:37 ( CD Version 2006 )

Occupation

About Face (English for " U-turn ") is the second solo album by British musician David Gilmour, the guitarist, singer, composer and songwriter of the rock band Pink Floyd. It was published in March 1984. The album was produced by David Gilmour, it was co-produced by Bob Ezrin. Two pieces of plate Gilmour wrote together with the The- Who- musician Pete Townshend, the rest of the pieces he wrote alone.

Background

The album was recorded with Andrew Jackson in France. The recordings were made in a time when the future of the band Pink Floyd was unclear. The album was mixed by James Guthrie in the Mayfair Studios in London.

Guest musicians on the album were Jeff Porcaro, Pino Palladino, Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord and Steve Winwood. Michael Kamen was also involved in the orchestral arrangements of the album, which he carried out in the same year for Gilmour's ex- Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters on his album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.

The album contained the disco -style single " Blue Light" and another single from the album, " Love on the Air".

About Face was re-released on 14 August 2006 in Europe as a CD with tonal revision, two of the songs were up there playing a little longer.

As for Gilmour's first album recorded here also again the company Hipgnosis responsible for the cover design, its employees Storm Thorgerson worked for About Face under the pseudonym " STd ".

Title list

In 2006 a digitally reworked version of the album was released on CD, this also included longer versions of individual songs than on previous releases. The length of each longer version on this issue is given in brackets.

Unused pieces

Gilmour had written two more tunes, for which he had no text.

He therefore asked Roy Harper and regardless of Pete Townshend, if they could write for the tunes appropriate texts. Both text suggestions but did not like Gilmour. So Harper used his melody for the song " Hope " for the 1985 album with Jimmy Page on Whatever Happened to Jugula? . Townshend used his melody for the song " White City Fighting" on his solo album White City: A Novel from the year 1984.

Tour

Between March and July 1984 Gilmour was with the album in Europe and North America on the go. In these concerts, he played the following songs:

Live Video

Furthermore, a concert film entitled Pink Floyd's David Gilmour was published under at that tour as VHS in September 1984. This includes the following titles:

Contributors

  • Andrew Jackson - Recording Engineer
  • Doug Sax - mastering and remastering
  • James Guthrie - remastering and mixing engineer
  • Joel Plante - Remastering
  • Album ( rock )
  • Album 1984
Record label Harvest Records EMI Genre Rock music Sam Brown (singer) Boulogne-Billancourt David Gilmour (Album) On an Island Singing Money (Pink Floyd song) Run Like Hell Comfortably Numb
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