Summary of Mark Blake's Comfortably Numb

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#1 The last time Pink Floyd got into trouble with a politician was in the 1980s, when their song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 featured a choir of London inner city schoolchildren shouting a chorus of We don’t need no education. In 2005, Live 8 was held to raise awareness about Third World deprivation and to urge world leaders to tackle the issue of poverty.

#2 The four members of Pink Floyd have struck a truce to perform at the concert, and they have not made an album since 1994. With the lure of a good cause and Geldof’s expert arm-twisting, it took just three weeks for them to agree to play.

#3 The goosebumping scream that precedes Breathe sounds eerily familiar. It is a recording of a Pink Floyd roadie from nearly thirty years earlier at Abbey Road Studios. The men on stage look curiously real, as if they could be any group of fifty-something businessmen on a dress-down Friday.

#4 The band members were Wright, Gilmour, and Waters. Wright had been relegated in Pink Floyd, a victim of his own reticence and the strong personalities surrounding him. Gilmour had been the only frontman for Floyd since the mid-1980s.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537453

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Insights on Mark Blake's Comfortably Numb

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The last time Pink Floyd got into trouble with a politician was in the 1980s, when their song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 featured a choir of London inner city schoolchildren shouting a chorus of We don’t need no education. In 2005, Live 8 was held to raise awareness about Third World deprivation and to urge world leaders to tackle the issue of poverty.

#2

The four members of Pink Floyd have struck a truce to perform at the concert, and they have not made an album since 1994. With the lure of a good cause and Geldof’s expert arm-twisting, it took just three weeks for them to agree to play.

#3

The goosebumping scream that precedes Breathe sounds eerily familiar. It is a recording of a Pink Floyd roadie from nearly thirty years earlier at Abbey Road Studios. The men on stage look curiously real, as if they could be any group of fifty-something businessmen on a dress-down Friday.

#4

The band members were Wright, Gilmour, and Waters. Wright had been relegated in Pink Floyd, a victim of his own reticence and the strong personalities surrounding him. Gilmour had been the only frontman for Floyd since the mid-1980s.

#5

The final song was as inevitable as it was anticipated. To have not played it would have been seen as heresy. Comfortably Numb is taken from The Wall, a concept album about a rock star’s tortuous decline.

#6

Live 8 reunited Pink Floyd, and they performed their closing set. But the band members, and fans, were still wondering if they would ever get back together to record an album and tour again.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1968, Pink Floyd had parted company with their original singer, Syd Barrett. By then, David Gilmour had joined the group to provide some musical stability. Barrett’s drug use and increasingly fractious state of mind had rendered him a liability.

#2

The city of Cambridge is where the three main protagonists of Pink Floyd’s history, Barrett, Gilmour, and Waters, were born. It was a place where licensed eccentricity was considered permissible.

#3

Dr. Arthur Max Barrett was a university demonstrator in pathology at the local Addenbrooke’s hospital. He was also a noted amateur painter and botanist. He was married to Winifred Garrett, the great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the country’s first female physician.

#4

Roger Waters was enrolled at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys in 1954. He was a noted sportsman, and a wicket keeper in the school’s first XI cricket team. He also joined the school’s Combined Cadet Force, but was later discharged for refusing to attend training.

#5

Roger Waters’ childhood experiences would find their way into Pink Floyd’s music, leaving even the most inattentive listener in little doubt about his feelings for life at the County.

#6

Syd’s brother Alan played saxophone in a skiffle group, and Syd began messing around with a ukelele. They would try and learn guitar from the American imports they brought over.

#7

Gilmour’s parents loved each other, but they found their children’s company rather inconvenient. They sent them to boarding school at the age of five, and Gilmour returned to Cambridge at the age of eleven.

#8

In 1961, Roger Waters’ father left him and his brother to go to New York University, where he was eventually appointed Professor of Genetics. Waters and Barrett, with their shared academic backgrounds, all now had absent fathers, and were striking