Marooned (song)
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| "Marooned" | ||
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| Song by Pink Floyd | ||
| from the album The Division Bell | ||
| Released | March 30, 1994 (UK) April 5, 1994 (US) |
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| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | ~5:24 | |
| Label | EMI (UK) Columbia Records (US) |
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| Writer(s) | David Gilmour Rick Wright |
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| Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour | |
| The Division Bell track listing | ||
| Poles Apart (3) |
"Marooned" (4) |
A Great Day for Freedom (5) |
"Marooned" is an instrumental track on Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell. An excerpt of the music is featured on Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
The piece was written by David Gilmour and Richard Wright and came about while jamming at Britannia Row Studios in early 1993. The high-pitch guitar sounds on the track came from a Whammy pedal which makes the guitar sound an octave higher, also known as a pitch shifter. Alike to "Is There Anybody Out There?" this song also used the shrill siren-like sound effect of the song "Echoes".
The track was given a Grammy Award in the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1995. This is Pink Floyd's only Grammy to date.
[edit] Credits
- Music by David Gilmour and Richard Wright
- David Gilmour - whammy pedalled Fender Stratocaster
- Richard Wright - Kurzweil synthesizers, piano
- Nick Mason - drums, percussion
- Jon Carin - additional keyboards
- Guy Pratt - bass
Recorded January, 1993 to January 1994 at David Gilmour's The Astoria, Britannia Row Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London.
It has only been played live 3 times. On the two dates in Oslo, Norway on the 1994 "The Division Bell" tour and at the 50th Fender birthday concert
