Delicate Sound of Thunder

Term

CD 1: 48min 59sec
CD 2: 55min 12sec

Occupation

David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
Nick Mason - drums
Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
Jon Carin - additional keyboards, vocals
Guy Pratt - bass, vocals
Gary Wallis - percussion
Tim Renwick - guitar, vocals
Scott Page - saxophone
Rachel Fury - backing vocals
Durga McBroom - backing vocals
Margret Taylor - backing vocals

Delicate Sound Of Thunder is the live double album A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour of the British rock band Pink Floyd. Later, the live recording was also on VHS on the market.

3.1 VHS

Background

The album was released on November 22, 1988 as a double LP, double cassette and CD, as well as 1992 as VHS. It was missing on the LP the play Us and Them, while the pieces Signs of Life, On the Run and One Slip are represented on the VHS.

Although David Gilmour stated in a radio interview from 1992, Delicate Sound of Thunder contains no studio overdubs, Comfortably Numb was decorated according to a statement by the studio engineer Buford Jones subsequently with an acoustic guitar and some harmonies replaced by studio retakes. Richard Wright took his vocals in Us and Them on again and Sam Brown replaced the background singer Rachel Fury with Comfortably Numb.

For the record cover was - as with most previous albums - Storm Thorgerson responsible.

Delicate Sound of Thunder reached # 11 on the Billboard 200 and received to date, three platinum records.

Others

Delicate Sound of Thunder was the first rock album to be played in space. A Russian cosmonaut took a cassette recording in 1988 with the Soyuz TM -7. The shell of the cassette he left behind on Earth to save weight. The band members of Pink Floyd were at the launch of the rocket there. Delicate Sound of Thunder was the only plate that was officially released in the Soviet Union of the label Melodiya.

Title list

1 CD / LP 1 and 2

2 CD / LP 3 and 4

Live Video

The video was shot on August 19, 1988 at Nassau Coliseum in New York. Some of the concert on 21 June 1988 was used in Versailles, France.

VHS

Syd Barrett • David Gilmour • Nick Mason • Roger Waters • Richard Wright

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets • • • Ummagumma Atom Heart Mother Meddle • • The Dark Side of the Moon • Wish You Were Here • Animals • The Wall • The Final Cut • A Momentary Lapse of Reason • The Division Bell

Ummagumma • Delicate Sound of Thunder • Pulse • Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81

The Committee • Tonite Lets All Make Love in London • Soundtrack from the Film More • • Obscured by Clouds Zabriskie Point

Relics • A Collection of Great Dance Songs • Works • Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd • The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door

Arnold Layne See Emily Play • • • Flaming Apples and Oranges • It Would Be So Nice • Let There Be More Light • Point Me at the Sky • The Nile Song • One of These Days • Fearless • Free Four • Money • Us and Them / Time • Have a Cigar • Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) • Comfortably Numb • Run Like Hell • When the Tigers Broke Free • Not Now John • Learning to Fly • On the Turning Away • One Slip • Take It Back • high Hopes • Wish You Were Here (live)

Discography

Album ( Progressive Rock )
Album ( rock )
Pink Floyd album
Live album
Album 1988
Multi-platinum album (United States)

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