Who originally sang Comfortably Numb?

Roger Waters
Comfortably Numb

“Comfortably Numb”
Songwriter(s)	David Gilmour Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin David Gilmour James Guthrie Roger Waters
Pink Floyd singles chronology
“Run Like Hell” (1980) “Comfortably Numb” (1980) “When the Tigers Broke Free” (1982)

Why did Pink Floyd wrote Comfortably Numb?

Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality.

What’s the meaning of Pink Floyd?

Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Who are the two singers in Pink Floyd?

The personnel of the English rock group Pink Floyd has changed several times. The group was founded in 1964 by Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals.

Why did Roger Waters leave Pink Floyd?

Waters claims to have been forced to resign like Wright had been years earlier, and decided to leave Pink Floyd based on legal considerations, saying: “If I hadn’t, the financial repercussions would have wiped me out completely.” In December 1987, Waters and Pink Floyd reached an agreement.

What song did Pink Floyd write about Syd Barrett?

Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Syd Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, musician and painter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. He was known to be reclusive….Songs.

Released	Sep 1975
Title	“Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
Writer(s)	Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour
Artist	Pink Floyd
Notes	About Barrett

Has Dave Gilmour retired?

This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2021….David Gilmour.

David Gilmour CBE
Years active	1963–present
Spouse(s)	Virginia “Ginger” Hasenbein ​ ​ ( m. 1975; div. 1990)​ Polly Samson ​ ( m. 1994)​
Children	8
Musical career

What does comfortable Numb by Pink Floyd mean?

Comfortably Numb, one of Pink Floyd’s most beloved songs, from The Wall (1979), with its melody and music by David Gilmour and lyrics by Roger Waters, describes a state of loss: the protagonist is someone who is anaesthetised before coming on stage.

What is the meaning behind the song depdepression Comfortably Numb?

Depression, in Comfortably Numb, is just a grey waiting room, where everything is reminiscent of death. The absence of pain is not happiness. The doctor in the lyrics takes away the pain to get the show going, but it doesn’t work. It only increases the distance, and even the voice on the record sounds more distant.

How hard is it to write the song ‘I have become Comfortably Numb’?

Then we had to add a couple of extra bars so Roger could do the line, ‘I have become comfortably numb.’ But other than that, it was very simple to write. And it was all done before the orchestration was added. But there were arguments about how it should be mixed and which backing track should be used.

What’s wrong with pink’s ‘the world is dulled for Pink’?

In their summary of the track’s deeper meaning, Genius (excellent site, btw) corrected an ‘intentional’ grammatical error within the lyric, a common practice among poets, artists, and song writers alike. (insert of quotations {“} my own) “The world is dulled for Pink. In his perspective, everything is like some ephemeral ‘d