🇬🇧 Reacting to PINK FLOYD – 'Comfortably Numb' (Live Performance)

"Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd from their eleventh album, The Wall (1979). It was released as a single in 1980, with "Hey You" as the B-side. The music was composed by guitarist David Gilmour while the lyrics were written by bassist Roger Waters, who based them on his experience of being injected with tranquilisers before a performance in 1977. The song describes a state of delirium; a feeling of being detached from reality. The main theme is the distance between our minds and the perception of reality because of artificial relief⁴. In other words, we may not suffer, but that does not make us alive; escaping from life and its problems actually deprives us of something. Waters and Gilmour argued during the recording, with Waters preferring an orchestral arrangement and Gilmour preferring a more stripped-down arrangement. They compromised by combining both versions; Gilmour said the song represented the last time he and Waters were able to work together constructively. "Comfortably Numb" is one of Pink Floyd's best-known songs, notable for its two guitar solos. In 2021, it was ranked number 179 on Rolling Stone's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 2005, it became the last song ever performed by Waters, Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason together. Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/4/2023 (1) Comfortably Numb - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfortably_.... (2) Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd - Songfacts. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/pink-floyd.... (3) Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb: behind the meaning of the lyrics. https://auralcrave.com/en/2019/01/29/pink-.... (4) Comfortably Numb - YouTube.    • Comfortably Numb  .