LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1994 PINK FLOYD RELEASED THEIR 14TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE DIVISION BELL’ IN CANADA AND THE USA (THE ALBUM WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED MARCH 28TH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM). THIS WAS THE 2ND PINK FLOYD RECORDED WITHOUT ROGER WATERS. IT WAS MOSTLY WRITTEN BY DAVID GILMOUR AND RICHARD WRIGHT AND FEATURED THE FIRST VOCAL FROM WRIGHT ON AN ALBUM SINCE PINK FLOYD’S ‘DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’. IT SADLY WAS THE LAST PINK FLOYD ALBUM RECORDED WITH WRIGHT WHO DIED IN 2008.
‘THE DIVISION BELL’ ENDED UP SELLING OVER 3 MILLION COPIES.
HERE’S ‘THE RINGING OF THE DIVISION BELL’ FROM PINK FLOYD
