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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
Dick Parry
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The wildest thing I found out years later after hearing the song a million times is that the female vocal on the mind numbingly amazing The Great Gig in the Sky on DSOTM is a white woman. I'd always assumed she was black because of the intense amount of soul that's in that performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry
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I went in, put the headphones on, and started going 'Ooh-aah, baby, baby – yeah, yeah, yeah.' They said, 'No, no — we don't want that. If we wanted that we'd have got Doris Troy.' They said, 'Try some longer notes', so I started doing that a bit. And all this time, I was getting more familiar with the backing track. That was when I thought, 'Maybe I should just pretend I'm an instrument.' So I said, 'Start the track again.' One of my most enduring memories is that there was a lovely headphone balance. Alan Parsons got a lovely sound on my voice: echoey, but not too echoey. When I closed my eyes — which I always did — it was just all-enveloping; a lovely vocal sound, which for a singer, is always inspirational. - Clare Torry
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Last edited by Chula Vista; 05-22-2017 at 08:16 PM.
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