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Keep Talking (Pink Floyd song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Keep Talking'" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, 'The Division Bell'.
Recording
Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. This same commercial was sampled again in "Talkin' Hawkin'" from Pink Floyd's next and final studio album, 'The Endless River'.(liner notes from 'Echoes') Gilmour chose to use the speech after crying to the commercial, which he described as "the most powerful piece of television advertising that Ive ever seen in my life. The song also makes some use of the talk box guitar effect.
Release
The song was the first single to be released from the album in the United States in March 1994. It was the group's third #1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart (a chart published by 'Billboard' magazine which measures radio play in the United States, and is not a measure of record sales), staying atop for six weeks.
The song was included on the 2001 compilation, 'Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd'.
Live
The song was performed every night during the 1994 The Division Bell Tour and live versions, taken from different shows, were included in both the album 'Pulse' and the video of the same name.
The song was sampled by Wiz Khalifa on the title track of his 2009 mixtape 'Burn After Rolling'.
Quotes
Personnel
;Pink Floyd
*David Gilmour lead vocals, guitar, talk box, EBow
*Richard Wright Hammond organ, synthesizer
*Nick Mason drums, percussion
;Additional musicians
*Gary Wallis programming
*Jon Carin programming, additional keyboards
*Guy Pratt bass guitar
*Sam Brown backing vocals
*Durga McBroom backing vocals
*Carol Kenyon backing vocals
*Jackie Sheridan backing vocals
*Rebecca Leigh-White backing vocals
*Stephen Hawking computer voice, sampled
Charts
Weekly charts
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!Chart (1994)
!Peak
position
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|Canada
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|US 'Billboard' Album Rock Tracks
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Year-end charts
Release history
References
Category:1994 songs
Category:Pink Floyd songs
Category:Stephen Hawking
Category:Songs written by David Gilmour
Category:Songs written by Richard Wright (musician)
Category:Songs with lyrics by Polly Samson
Category:Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Category:Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
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