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on YouTube " On the Turning Away " is a song from Pink Floyd 's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The song was a staple of live shows from the 1987–89 world tours in support of A Momentary Lapse of Reason and was one of the songs in rotation during the 1994 tour in support of The Division Bell .
The album was promoted with three singles: the double A-side "Learning to Fly" / "Terminal Frost", "On the Turning Away", and "One Slip". A Momentary Lapse of Reason received mixed reviews; some critics praised the production and instrumentation but criticised Gilmour's songwriting, and it was derided by Waters.
on YouTube " Sorrow " is a song by the English band Pink Floyd . Written by the band's singer and guitarist David Gilmour , it is the closing track on their thirteenth studio album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason , released in 1987.
"On the Turning Away" (from A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1987) Second set "One of These Days" (from Meddle, 1971) "Time" (omitting the reprise of "Breathe") (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973) "On the Run" (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973) "Wish You Were Here" (from Wish You Were Here, 1975) "Welcome to the Machine"(from Wish You Were ...
Following Waters' departure from Pink Floyd, the song became a regular number in the band's concerts, usually ending the show and going over nine minutes long. One live version was used as the B-side to "On the Turning Away". The song also was the closing track on the live album Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988).
Delicate Sound of Thunder is a concert film by Pink Floyd, filmed during their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour from 19 August 1988 to 23 August 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from 21–22 June 1988 at the Place d'Armes of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, France.
They serve as bookends to the instrumental track "Terminal Frost", and feature David Gilmour's voice, electrically distorted, through a vocoder and a rising synth note.The narrator seems to express weariness with a lifetime spent in one body, waiting for the moment of death, but seeks consolation in the fact that this "waiting" will eventually end.
The original video also depicts a factory worker who turns into an aeroplane pilot, as well as a child who breaks free from his mother and dives off a cliff into a deep river, swimming away. The video went to No. 9 on MTV's Video Countdown in November 1987 and was the No. 60 video of MTV's Top 100 Videos of 1987.