Simply look at Jazz and that has influenced my way of playing the keyboard. For example, I can give you a good example, one of the people I was very influenced by was Miles Davis, the trumpeter and his style of playing the trumpet certainly influenced the way I played the keyboards and also Bill Evans. I would have to say, not necessarily keyboard players actually influenced my sound. Who were the influences on this keyboard style in the beginning? Wright’s keyboard work during the early Floyd years was one of the most distinctive elements of the band’s sound, and was definitely a key to the band’s success. I did Broken China because I personally feel that’s the best way I can work and I am very interested in how you can connect music with words and feelings and visuals. Funny enough you mentioned Division Bell though we originally intended it to be a conceptual album, I wanted it to really be conceptual, but in the end there were connected songs and some were not related to one another. Certainly on Broken China that was how I wrote. RICK WRIGHT: I think really the question is also the answer because it is true, that’s how I like to write. What is it that attracts you to ‘complete’ albums such as Wish You Were Here, The Division Bell and Broken China? Q: Dear Rick, I first want to take this opportunity to thank you for your outstanding contribution to the greatest band in the world, and as well for your excellent new album Broken China, which I think is a masterpiece. “Throughout your career with Pink Floyd, and on Broken China, your taste towards music has been conceptual – one that flows together and that conveys a collective tone that is very evident. The version we play on "Floydian Slip is the gold Mobile Fidelity Ultradisc II pressing, which is the version pictured.Jam Music: All the Wright answers from Pink Floyd’s keyboardist "Atom Heart Mother" became Floyd's first number one album in Britain. The ordinary nature of the cover, of course, turned out to be more radical than anything else the band could have done. In an attempt to shock the public with an entirely ordinary album jacket for the new Pink Floyd album, Hipgnosis's Storm Thorgerson drove to Essex, England, and snapped a photo of the first cow he came across.įurthermore, the album was released without the band's name on it. The album cover photo came about nearly as spontaneously. The story goes that the band adopted the name on the spot. The album's title was allegedly inspired by an Evening Standard headline about a pregnant woman with an atomic pacemaker - a headline Geesin spotted shortly before the band was to go on the John Peel radio show to debut its then-unnamed opus. On the original British LP version, the sound of the dripping faucet at the end continued into the record's center groove, making for a constant drip, until the needle was lifted from the album. When performing the number in concert, the band allowed the smells of real cooking eggs and bacon to permeate the audience. The realistically irritating sounds of a fellow cooking his breakfast act as a segue between the three parts. The group recorded the framework of the 23-minute-plus number, and then left it in the hands of Ron Geesin to add orchestrations, choirs and such, while Floyd toured America.Ī good portion of side two consists of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast," a nearly 14-minute, three-part song cycle, named after Floyd roadie Alan Stiles. Side one of "Atom Heart Mother" is composed solely of the title track, which began its life as "The Amazing Pudding," a working title that would later become the name of a now-defunct Floyd fanzine.
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