SPEAK TO ME
The creeping introduction of the pounding heartbeat was lifted from the band’s contribution to the Zabriskie Point soundtrack in 1970. Fading in from a deep, resonant heartbeat, it seems to suggest a baby’s first bleary impressions of the brash, cynical world. Credited to Mason, although written by Waters, the title came from the album’s engineer Alan Parsons’s oft-repeated instruction from the studio control booth.
It also featured a vari-speeded clock lifted from Time, a scream from The Great Gig In The Sky and spoken parts: “I’ve been mad for fucking years” from road manager Chris Adamson, and “I’ve always been mad” from doorman Jerry Driscoll. And then…
BREATHE IN THE AIR
The languorous chord progression of finally bursts out of a
